On 2/28/07, Chaudhary, Harsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I have page1.jsp which has a form which calls Page1Action which forwards to page2.jsp. Also, session scoped Page1Form and Page2Form.In Page1Action, I do: Page2Form frm = new Page2Form(); frm.setSomeVariable("Some Value"); Then read this value in page2.jsp to display. I feel the bad part is initializing the Page2Form myself. This works correctly because I think Struts checks for the form being available in all scopes, finds it in session, and just uses that instead of creating a new one in the Page2Form constructor. Is this way of doing things correct? If not why? Or am I zoned out too much to make sense?
This is okay. Not great to my taste, but okay. You should use the same key as "name" attribute in the action mapping. I would recommend you another pattern, but I will not going to share my way of doing this until a new version of Struts1 that would allow to turn off automatic reset/populate of a form is released. Why would you create an ActionForm for pure output purposes? You can create a POJO or even access properties of your business object. On a side note, in Struts actions precede pages. An action receives a request and then displays a page. In your case, it obtains information from page1, but it renders page2. Even this is not true. An action does not obtain information from a page, it just receives a request and it does not care where the request comes from. So talking in terms "page1.jsp calls Page1Action" is not entirely correct to me. Therefore I would name your action as Page2Action, not Page1Action, that would be clearer for me. Michael. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
