Michael Jouravlev wrote: >> > On 5/3/06, Rob Manthey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> ... action knowing dynamically what jsp it's called from ... > > Despite that HTTP is stateless, the application has its state, > which is defined by > * state stored on the server, like session-scoped data > * input data that was submitted with request > Based on this information, application updates the Model (and its > state) if needed (that is, updates session objects or writes to a > database, database being a part of server state), and displays a view. > It may choose a view out of several possible views based on current > state (again, if you do not use session-scoped objects, current state > is completely defined by input data and maybe by some stuff that you > pulled from the database).
Yep, this is currently what I understand and what my app does, so I'm glad I'm not too far off-track so far! :) > If you care about where your action is called from, Only so much as to have a page for the server to send back to the user - ie: the page that they were on - not some other interim page. > just pass this > info along as request parameter, this is the easiest thing. Or, > instead of passing something like "calledFrom=SearchPage" you can pass > something like "searchCriteria=...". The action would know that it > needs to perform a search and to return found. ... which is where I was heading, but thought I'd pull on the reins and say "am I doing this right? Is there a part of the framework that I'm missing that does this for me". (I suspect this'd be resolved outright if my app was using AJAX for the shared actions ... ?) > Try this as well: http://wiki.apache.org/struts/DataEntryForm Had a peek - this looks like mandatory reading for me next up. > > The above link needs some polishing, but it already has some usable > ideas. Write (or curse) back if my babbling was not clear ;-) > > Michael. Thanks heaps Rob --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
