Sorry this doesn't answer your question directly, but I would back up a bit and question your design.
Rather than try to invoke your LoginAction manually from another action, I would just invoke all the necessary methods in your ForgotPasswordAction. Presumably logging on is little more than a call to the manager layer and a session attribute setting (not counting form validation). Actions are not really meant to be reusable components. If you have several view-related methods you need to invoke at logon time, put those methods in a base class that LogonAction and ForgotPasswordAction extend. Otherwise, a small amount of redundant logic from Action to Action is not a bad thing. I think this would remove the problem you are describing. But of course, I'm making a lot of assumptions. Hope that helps, Erik -----Original Message----- From: Chris Loschen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: May 25, 2005 4:35 PM To: Struts Users Mailing List <user@struts.apache.org> Subject: Populating a new form bean and passing it on to the next request Hi all, I'm using Struts 1.1. I've got some "forgot password" functionality working, and the last piece of that is to set a new password for the user who has successfully answered their security question. For that action, I use a "forgotPasswordForm" form bean, which goes to my "newPasswordAction". That's all working fine, and the new password is getting saved to the DB as expected. Now I'd like to take that username and new password and pass them over to my normal login action, so that the user doesn't have to reenter their username and password again: they just get logged in normally. The loginAction needs the loginForm, so I'm instantiating a loginForm, populating with the new username and password, and then saving it to the request object in my newPasswordAction. However, I always get a validation error saying that username and password are required, so I've got something wrong someplace. Does anyone see it? Here's the new code in setPasswordAction: LoginForm loginForm = new LoginForm(); loginForm.setUser(userID); loginForm.setPassword(forgotPasswordForm.getNewPassword()); request.setAttribute("loginForm", loginForm); Here are some fragments of struts-config.xml: <form-bean name="loginForm" type="com.xxx.application.tbm.core.forms.LoginForm"/> <action path="/login/perform" type="com.xxx.application.tsm.common.actions.LoginAction" name="loginForm" scope="request" validate="true" input="login"> <forward name="success" path="/disclaimer/show.do" redirect="true"/> <forward name="error" path="/login/show.do" redirect="true"/> </action> <action path="/forgot/setNewPwd" type="com.xxx.application.tbm.b2b.actions.NewPasswordAction" name="forgotPasswordNewForm" scope="request" validate="true" input="forgot_password_setNew"> <forward name="success" path="/login/perform.do"/> <forward name="error" path=".main.forgot.setNewPwd"/> </action> loginForm extends ValidatorForm, and both user and password are required in validation.xml, which is where my error messages appear to be coming from. I tried using a fully qualified name for loginForm (as in the form-bean declaration), but that didn't help either. Any suggestions? Thanks! Chris Loschen _______________ Siebel IT'S ALL ABOUT THE CUSTOMER Visit www.siebel.com This e-mail message is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and contains confidential and/or privileged information belonging to Siebel Systems, Inc. or its customers or partners. Any unauthorized review, use, copying, disclosure or distribution of this message is strictly prohibited. If you are not an intended recipient of this message, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all soft and hard copies of the message and any attachments. Thank you for your cooperation. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]