I'll be! Never used "attribute" either. Thanks.
Jack
On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 08:19:25 -0600, Joe Germuska <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The problem is that you are specifying the "attribute" value for one
> of your action mappings, but not for the other. For the first (setup
> action), because no "attribute" value is set in the ActionMapping,
> Struts looks in the request for a bean under the form's name
> "categoryEditForm". If it doesn't find one, it creates one and puts
> it there, so that by the time your Action's execute method is called,
> the ActionForm passed in the signature is also in the request under
> that attribute name.
>
> Then, when the JSP renders, the html:form tag uses its action
> attribute to look up the ActionMapping for the submission
> ("/categoryEdit"). This ActionMapping specifies that its form bean
> should be stored under the attribute name "val_categoryEdit". There
> is nothing in the request under that name, so Struts creates a new
> form, which is not initialized, and uses it for prepopulating form
> field values.
>
> Again, if you do not specify an "attribute" in an <action> element,
> the value defaults to the form's name (as specified in the <action>'s
> "name" attribute). I have never had a reason to specify "attribute"
> in the <action> element, but if you do, you need it to be consistent
> between the actions that are cooperating.
>
> Hope this helps,
> Joe
>
>
> At 4:19 PM +0700 1/12/05, Dody Rachmat Wicaksono wrote:
> >I'm trying to create an edit page. I think I already in the right
> >direction, but still unable to populate data even with a direct
> >value via action class. Please let me what's wrong here. I've spend
> >3 days alone with this problem.
> >Thank you.
> >
> >
> >I created two action file:
> >- SetUpCategoryEditAction.java (this action will populate data from
> >db to form)
> >- CategoryEditAction.java (this action will save the data)
> >
> >My formbean: CategoryEditForm.java
> >----------------------
> >public class CategoryEditForm extends ValidatorForm {
> > private String name;
> > private String categoryId;
> >
> > public void setName(String s) {
> > this.name = s;
> > }
> > public String getName() {
> > return name;
> > }
> > public void setcategoryId(String s) {
> > this.categoryId = s;
> > }
> > public String getcategoryId() {
> > return categoryId;
> > }
> >}
> >
> >
> >My struts-config.xml
> >----------------------
> ><form-bean name="categoryEditForm"
> >type="com.strutsgen.garuda.CategoryEditForm"/>
> >
> > <action path="/setUpCategoryEditForm"
> > type="com.strutsgen.garuda.SetUpCategoryEditAction"
> > name="categoryEditForm"
> > scope="request"
> > validate="false"
> > >
> > <forward
> > name="continue"
> > path="/categoryEditForm.jsp"/>
> > </action>
> >
> > <action path="/categoryEdit"
> > type="com.strutsgen.garuda.CategoryEditAction"
> > name="categoryEditForm"
> > attribute="val_categoryEdit"
> > scope="request"
> > validate="true"
> > input="/categoryEditForm.jsp"
> > >
> > <forward
> > name="success"
> > path="/categoryEditOk.jsp"/>
> > </action>
> >
> >
> >SetUpCategoryEditAction.java:
> >----------------------
> >public final class SetUpCategoryEditAction extends Action {
> >
> > public ActionForward execute(ActionMapping mapping,
> > ActionForm form,
> > HttpServletRequest request,
> > HttpServletResponse response)
> > throws Exception {
> >
> > CategoryEditForm categoryEditForm = (CategoryEditForm)form;
> > categoryEditForm.setName("testing");
> >
> > return (mapping.findForward("continue"));
> > }
> >}
> >
> >
> >
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