Take another look at BeanUtils -- that's what Struts uses to auto-populate ActionForms from the request. You should be able to do the same thing in your app pretty easily using, e.g. BeanUtils.populate(form, request.getParameters()) or something similar.
L. Greg Pelly wrote:
In previous projects where I have used ActionForms, I have always used Struts. I am currently working on a project that, for various reasons, does not use Struts. Is there a way to harvest the advantages of ActionForms without Struts? In particular, I have a form that the user fills out with checkboxes and a "comments" section. There are many of them: the business logic dictates that the form contain 3 "zones." Each zone has between 4 and 10 questions. Each question has a checkbox and a "comment" field. Ideally I would create a bean with a series of Zone objects which contain Question objects which each contain a boolean "checked" and a String "comment"--problem solved. However, I haven't ever done this without Struts, so I don't know of any way to have the values populated in an Object sent with the form submission--the action servlet usually takes care of that. Is there a tool for doing this or any suggested workaround without Struts? Sorry if I'm missing something completely obvious: a quick scan of previous posts and the LazyList and BeanUtils APIs didn't make any lights go on. Thanks, Greg
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