Re: MappingDispatchAction's JSP code

[Rick Reumann]

O. Oke wrote the following on 9/24/2004 6:22 AM:
I have a class that extends the new
MappingDispatchAction
class
.  This class has two  methods, namely getCustomer and
updateCustomer.
The corresponding mapping for each method are below:
		
        <action path="/getCustomer"
type="com.fujimitsu.cargo.gen.CustomerAction"
name="cargoForm" 
scope="request" 
validate="false" 
input=".customerDef.jsp"
 parameter="getCustomer">
 <forward name="success" path=".customerDef.jsp" />
        </action>
		
        <action path="/updateCustomer"
type="com.fujimitsu.cargo.gen.CustomerAction"
name="cargoForm" scope="request" 
validate="true" 
input=".customerDef.jsp" 
parameter="updateCustomer">
<forward name="success" path=".customerDef.jsp" />
        </action>


my jsp has three buttons, namelygetCustomer,
updateCustomer and cancel.
JSP CODE
========
The works with DispatchAction.  However, due to the
limitations of DispatchAction, I want to use the new
MappingDispatchAction class.
What are these limitations? For what you are trying to do the 
limitations are actually the other way around:)

    <html:form action="/Customer">
	<%-- onsubmit="return validateCargoForm(this);"--%>
      <table width="500" border="0">
       ................
       ................
       other fields....
       ................
       ................	  
      <html:hidden property="methodToExecute"
value="unknownMethod"/> 
      <SCRIPT>function set(target)
{document.forms[0].methodToExecute.value=target;}</SCRIPT>
      <html:submit onclick="bCancel=true;
set('getCustomers')">Get Customer</html:submit>
      <html:submit onclick=             
"set('updateCustomer')">Update Customer</html:submit>
      <html:cancel/>
    </html:form> 

Your trying to use a MappingDispatchAction like a DispatchAction don't 
do this. Just use DispatchAction. So you make one Action 
"CustomerAction" and you can have one mapping <action 
path="/customerAction" ..>
and then you have the different dispatch methods inside. Simple.

If you want to use MappingDispatchAction then you'll have to use 
javascript to change the action name in your <html:form action="" 
section. I find that uglier than setting a dispatch parameter with 
javascript.

I guess you didn't look at the SimpleDispatchAction either?
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Rick
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