>From what you posted it is not obvious that your ActionForm belongs to
com.prytaniagroup.www package. Does it?
Michael.
On 11/9/05, Neil Mendoza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> OK, I'm climbing up the walls trying to make Struts populate a map-backed
> action form. This should be a simple task but I cannot get it to f*&king
> work and it is driving me insane... The reset method is called before the
> form is first displayed and the resulting jsp is populated with the value set
> in the reset method, i.e. it's accessing the map correctly. However, when
> the form is submitted the reset is called again but the form bean is not
> populated from the request before it gets to the action...
>
> AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaa....
>
> ----------------------------------------------------
> Action Form class
>
> import java.util.HashMap;
> import java.util.Map;
>
> import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
>
> import org.apache.struts.action.ActionForm;
> import org.apache.struts.action.ActionMapping;
>
> public class StrutsTestForm extends ActionForm {
>
> private Map things = new HashMap();
>
> public void setThing(String key, String value) {
> things.put(key, value);
> }
> public Object getThing(String key) {
> return things.get(key);
> }
>
> public void reset(
> ActionMapping arg0,
> HttpServletRequest arg1) {
> setThing("name", "test");
> System.out.println("reset called");
>
> }
> }
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> form jsp
>
> <%@ taglib uri="/tags/struts-bean" prefix="bean" %>
> <%@ taglib uri="/tags/struts-html" prefix="html" %>
> <html>
> <head>
> <title>Employee Form</title>
> </head>
> <body>
> <h1>Employee Form</h1>
> <html:form action="sta" focus="name" method="get">
> <table>
> <tr>
> <td >Name:</td>
> <td><html:text property="thing(name)"/></td>
> </tr>
> <tr>
> <td>Age:</td>
> <td><html:text property="thing(age)"/></td>
> </tr>
> </table>
> <html:submit>Submit</html:submit>
> </html:form>
> </body>
> </html>
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------
> Action class
>
>
> package com.prytaniagroup.www;
>
> import org.apache.struts.action.Action;
> import org.apache.struts.action.ActionForward;
> import org.apache.struts.action.ActionMapping;
> import org.apache.struts.action.ActionForm;
> //import org.apache.commons.
> import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
> import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;
>
> public final class StrutsTestAction extends Action {
>
> public ActionForward execute(ActionMapping mapping,
> ActionForm form,
> HttpServletRequest request,
> HttpServletResponse response)
> throws Exception {
> StrutsTestForm strutsTestForm = (StrutsTestForm)form;
>
> System.out.println((String)strutsTestForm.getThing("name"));
>
> System.out.println((String)strutsTestForm.getThing("age"));
> return (mapping.findForward("success"));
> }
> }
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> extracts from strusts-config.xml
>
> <form-beans>
>
> <form-bean
> name="StrutsTestForm"
> type="com.prytaniagroup.www.StrutsTestForm"/>
> </form-beans>
>
> <action-mappings>
>
> <action
> path="/setupstrutstestform"
> forward="/strutstestform.jsp"/>
>
> <action
> path="/sta"
> type="com.prytaniagroup.www.StrutsTestAction"
> name="StrutsTestForm"
> scope="request"
> validate="false">
>
> <forward name="success" path="/confirmation.jsp"/>
> </action>
>
> </action-mappings>
>
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