I would suggest in that scenario that you could create a property on your ActionForm for the object that is stored in the session and set it in the action. then your getter could access that property. for this to work, you'd have to set validate="no" in the config file for that action, and call and handle the validation yourself in the action.
dave On Fri, 2006-05-12 at 13:47 -0500, Chaudhary, Harsh wrote: > I need to access the request as I have a session variable stored in a > StateHolder class which I need to access (request.getSession()). > Basically, the field in my form is a calculated field (age) which is > calculated from a DOB field. I need it in the form as I need access to > the age field for some validations. I could write a custom validator for > this which has access to the request object. I was just trying to see if > it is at all possible to get the request object in any way. > > I have solved my problem now. But I am still wondering if it is a good > idea to have access to the request object from anywhere. If yes, then is > there a way to do it. Any thoughts? > > Harsh. > > -----Original Message----- > From: David Evans [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, May 12, 2006 1:41 PM > To: Struts Users Mailing List > Subject: Re: Get request object > > > Hello, > > I don't think you can get the request from the ActionForm. From within > the ActionForm you can get the ServletContext this way: > > ServletContext context = this.getServlet().getServletContext(); > > But i don't think that helps. > > What is the scenario here? why do you need the request in the > ActionForm? there may be a simple refactoring that could solve the > problem. > > dave > > > On Fri, 2006-05-12 at 11:59 -0500, Chaudhary, Harsh wrote: > > Hi, > > This is not exactly a struts question. But I am in a bind and short on > > time. So, maybe someone can help. > > > > I need to access the request object from a struts form. How do I do > > that? I mean how can I access the request object. > > > > I could have sworn there was a way to get either the ServletContext or > > ServletConfig or something like that from where you could access the > > request object. I can find it. Anyone? > > > > Harsh. > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Danny Lee > > Sent: Friday, May 12, 2006 9:52 AM > > To: user@struts.apache.org > > Subject: Re: Interesting question (to me)... Perl app conversion to > > SUNWappserver/Java/Struts > > > > > > Use URL rewrite filter for this one. It's really a good stuff. > > > > https://urlrewrite.dev.java.net/ > > > > Cheers, > > > > Danny > > > > > > > > Alan Treece wrote: > > > As the Subject: line states I'm in the middle of converting a larger > > > > Perl application to a Struts web-app running on the SUNWappserver. > The > > > > > question was posed as to how to deal with all of the folks who may > > have > > > "bookmarked" a perl URL to the old app. I don't want to just cut > those > > > > > folks off when the switch is made. > > > > > > Are there any tricks folks have used to deal with this scenario? The > > > > goal is to turn off the perl app and start the Struts web-app with > the > > > > > same server name and port. > > > > > > > > > Thanks, ajTreece > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
