> -----Original Message----- > From: Woodchuck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2004 7:24 AM > To: struts > Subject: lifetime of ActionForm objects > > > the following is my understanding, can someone please verify that i > have it correct? > > - when a form is first submitted, Struts will create an instance of > the ActionForm and then attempt to populate the submitted field data > via the JavaBean convention into the ActionForm object > > - this ActionForm object 'lives' in the session context > > - the next time the same form is submitted, Struts does not create a > new instance, but uses the one it created before
Actually, any form using that name... you can have several actions all using the same form name. > > the reason i'm asking is because i have a situation where it > seems like > the html form is linked directly to an object that i keep in > session... > i don't know how this is happening, but when i submit my form, the > object 'automatically' gets updated with the submitted form data... > however, this object is not even an ActionForm object... it's > an object > that i manually copy ActionForm data to, but somehow it seems to have > been 'linked' to the html form and the next time the data fields are > updated before i even copy them there How are you doing the copy? I'm betting that the copy is binding the objects together in some way. If all your doing is objectA=objectB (stringA = stringB) you aren't really copying in java, your sharing a reference to the same object. If stringB is in the form, then every time stringB changes, everything referencing stringB will change, including stringA --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
