I am using struts with tiles. Now, I have a questioner that is being displayed on a page that calls UrlController. Before it is displayed I need to get the values out of the database. The question is since I cannot use another action with the urlController to populate the actionform bean, should I do the actual data population in the urlController or should I create another class, and just initialize it from the urlController and the class in turn will do all the data retrieval from the database and than urlController will copy the data to the actionform bean?
hi Fedor
from your description I'm not totally clear what role the urlController plays - plus its name is very suggestive of a controller as in model-view-controller - although it seems it is your view component.
However I think I know what the issue is - you want to seperate the logic for handling a form submission from the logic for a form presentation?
From discussions these days it appears this issue is something that everyone wants the next generation of struts / jsf / whatever to address, since struts doesn't address it directly now.
You can use another action to populate the form bean - in the forward of the first action, point it to the URL of a new action. You can even make it a redirect and the page will display with the appropriate human-readable URL, if that's important to you. It's known as the Post-Redirect-Get pattern.
Hope this addresses your question! Adam
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