Nadia, Since you're talking DTO and not an input form bean, I recommend putting your myBeanName object in the "request" scope using the method request.saveAttribute() to store it. You should then be able to access it using html:text and the name="myBeanName" parameter a bit like this:
<html:text name="myBeanName" property="id" /> Without the name="myBeanName", the html:text defaults to using the default bean for the Action. Since you already have one, that is why I suggested putting the DTO in the request scope. Regards, David -----Original Message----- From: Nadia Kunkov [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2004 3:26 PM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: RE: <bean:write> within <html:text>, how to use? OK. I obviously don't know enough to use the tags properly even though I've been playing with struts for a week or two. My biggest problems are with the presentation. The bean myBeanName is the DTO object and not an action form so it's not specified in the struts-config.xml. The action form for this screen is configured in struts-config.xml. Now what is the right way to do things? Can I fill out my action form with data? What do I need to do in my jsp to display the data then? Or I need to declare my DTO bean in struts-config? I apologize if the questions are absolutely dumb :) NK -----Original Message----- From: Ricardo Andres Quintero [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2004 2:14 PM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Re: <bean:write> within <html:text>, how to use? Hello Nadia I dont know why you use <html:text name="somename" value= ' <bean:write name="myBeanName" property="id"/> ' /> instead of use <html:text name="myBeanName" property="id" /> did u configure myBeanName in the struts-congig.xml? does the action of the html:form use the bean-form myBeanName? On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 15:03:02 -0400, Nadia Kunkov wrote > Hi, newbie question again. > I'm trying to use <bean:write> within <html:text> tag. > > Here is how I use it with just plain HTML and it works: > <input type=text name="somename" value= ' <bean:write > name="myBeanName" property="id"/> ' > or <input type=hidden > name="somename" value= ' <bean:write name="myBeanName" > property="id"/> ' myBeanName is a bean that was put in a session > with the data from the database. > > Instead of the <input type=text ...> etc. I'd like to use > <html:text....> or <html:hidden....> I tried <html:text > name="somename" value= ' <bean:write name="myBeanName" > property="id"/> ' /> but that's not right. Could you help me with this? > > Also, is having the bean in a session or request with data from the > database and then using bean:write, only way of displaying the data > on a page? > There is BeanUtils method to populate DTO with the data > from an action form, u can use common-bean but i think is better to loab the DTO property per property. > can I somehow populate an action form from a > bean instead of using bean:write in my jsp? I dont understand this. > > Thanks for your help > NK > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Ricardo Andrés Quintero R. Ubiquando Ltda. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
