RE: prepopulating forms

2004-11-29 Thread Brij Naald
Thanks for all the answers. The problem was indeed that i used perform instead of execute :-s _ Kies nu de Site Van Het Jaar en win prachtige prijzen! http://www.sitevanhetjaar.be/ --

Re: prepopulating forms

2004-11-24 Thread Rick Reumann
Just a quick look and noticed you aren't being consistent with your use of the findForward. You should be consistent in your code in regard to whether you plan to use a Constants class or not. In one place (EvaluatiePreAction) you are hardcoding "success" but in LoginAction you are using the Co

Re: prepopulating forms

2004-11-24 Thread Bill Siggelkow
Did you try changing the LogonAction to implement 'execute' instead of the old 'perform' method? Brij Naald wrote: Not unless you would like to try posting non-private parts of your action class for list members to review. In advance: thanks for all the work you put in some 'newbie'-problems! I'v

RE: prepopulating forms

2004-11-24 Thread Brij Naald
Not unless you would like to try posting non-private parts of your action class for list members to review. In advance: thanks for all the work you put in some 'newbie'-problems! I've checked the "success"-issue, but this was'nt the problem. Here are the java-files ** * Evaluati

RE: prepopulating forms

2004-11-24 Thread David G. Friedman
class for list members to review. Regards, David -Original Message- From: Brij Naald [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 24, 2004 4:41 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: prepopulating forms No, that isn't the fault. Thanks! >What is the signature of your execute()

RE: prepopulating forms

2004-11-24 Thread Brij Naald
No, that isn't the fault. Thanks! What is the signature of your execute() method? I occasionally click on the wrong signature in my Eclipse IDE and use ServletRequest/ServletResponse instead of HttpServltRequest/HttpServletResponse. Regards, David

RE: prepopulating forms

2004-11-24 Thread David G. Friedman
: Wednesday, November 24, 2004 4:04 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: prepopulating forms I just tried it, but I don't see an solution in this. The problem is that the execute() of EvaluatiePreAction never is called. The output of the mapping.findForward().getPath() is /EvaluatiePre.do (which

RE: prepopulating forms

2004-11-24 Thread Brij Naald
I just tried it, but I don't see an solution in this. The problem is that the execute() of EvaluatiePreAction never is called. The output of the mapping.findForward().getPath() is /EvaluatiePre.do (which seems to be correct) Thanks for the answer! /EvaluatiePre.do Hvae you tried logging the path

RE: prepopulating forms

2004-11-24 Thread David G. Friedman
Hvae you tried logging the path/URI at start of execute() and the mapping.findForward().getPath() before you end/invoke the return(mapping.findForward("success"); ? Regards, David -Original Message- From: Brij Naald [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 24, 2004 3:16 PM To:

Re: Prepopulating forms

2004-07-12 Thread Joe Germuska
Yes, I think that's a great improvement. Still, I feel like Struts should be responsible for managing the scopes and the placement of the form bean into the correct scope. Also, and this may just be because I got on the "view controller" horse a long time ago, but I feel like there should be a

Re: Prepopulating forms & validation

2004-07-12 Thread Niall Pemberton
Apologies Erik, its not in this version...maybe the next one. Niall - Original Message - From: "Erik Weber" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Struts Users Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, July 12, 2004 10:44 PM Subject: Re: Prepopulatin

Re: Prepopulating forms & validation

2004-07-12 Thread Niall Pemberton
recently released Sruts 1.2.1 beta allows you to inherit from another form > > definition using the extends attribute > > > > Niall > > > > - Original Message - > > From: "Erik Weber" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: "Struts Users Mailing

Re: Prepopulating forms & validation

2004-07-12 Thread Erik Weber
Awesome! Inheritance in, or parameterizing of, the Validator plugin, will be the last step in getting a CRU (no D) use case finished the *right* way (hopefully). This is with declarative validation, declarative exception handling, an action layer, a business layer and a data access layer (archi

Re: Prepopulating forms & validation

2004-07-12 Thread Hubert Rabago
bute > > Niall > > - Original Message - > From: "Erik Weber" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Struts Users Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Monday, July 12, 2004 10:09 PM > Subject: Re: Prepopulating forms & validation > > &

Re: Prepopulating forms & validation

2004-07-12 Thread Rick Reumann
On Mon, 12 Jul 2004 17:09:41 -0400, Erik Weber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Because of one or two fields being different between add and update forms, I fear I'll have to do a nearly-redundant (and very long) element for my update condition in validation.xml. Does anyone have a better solut

Re: Prepopulating forms & validation

2004-07-12 Thread Niall Pemberton
ts Users Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, July 12, 2004 10:09 PM Subject: Re: Prepopulating forms & validation > Thanks a lot! I no doubt will find that very useful. > > I have another question for the group at large: > > I am now using the same form successful

Re: Prepopulating forms & validation

2004-07-12 Thread Rick Reumann
On Mon, 12 Jul 2004 17:09:41 -0400, Erik Weber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I am now using the same form successfully for adds and updates. I am using the Validator plugin for validation, which I find to be pretty awesome. The problem I face though is, the fields I need to validate are sligh

Re: Prepopulating forms

2004-07-12 Thread Rick Reumann
On Mon, 12 Jul 2004 22:09:15 +0100, Niall Pemberton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: // Find the FormBeanConfig FormBeanConfig config = mapping.getModuleConfig().findFormBeanConfig("myForm"); I've only rarely ever had to create Forms in my Actions (like you're doing in the above). I'd be curi

Re: Prepopulating forms & validation

2004-07-12 Thread Erik Weber
Thanks a lot! I no doubt will find that very useful. I have another question for the group at large: I am now using the same form successfully for adds and updates. I am using the Validator plugin for validation, which I find to be pretty awesome. The problem I face though is, the fields I need t

Re: Prepopulating forms

2004-07-12 Thread Niall Pemberton
Joe, Do you not think that the new standard mechanism in Struts 1.2.1 for creating ActionForms (regular or Dyna) makes this more straight forward? public ActionForward execute(ActionMapping mapping, ActionForm form, HttpServletRequest request,

Re: Prepopulating forms

2004-07-12 Thread Rick Reumann
On Mon, 12 Jul 2004 12:22:11 -0400, Erik Weber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Using BeanUtils.copyProperties(), it's a piece of cake to update your Form bean from the ValueObject properties. Do you have an example of this, or is there one on your site? I indeed have some properties that are th

Re: Prepopulating forms

2004-07-12 Thread Erik Weber
Joe and Wendy, thanks for all your help. Hearing the practical advice and the theoretical advice gives me a plan for getting things done but also keeps me thinking toward the best way of doing things! I think what you are saying here will dawn on me more as I get deeper into development, and I

Re: Prepopulating forms

2004-07-12 Thread Wendy Smoak
From: "Amleto Di Salle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > But a question: Are you using the html tags inside your jsp? > If yes, you can put the VO in the request and use the "value" (for > example value="${requestScope.anObject.aProperty}") attribute in the > html tags (for example "html:text). If you do tha

Re: Prepopulating forms

2004-07-12 Thread Joe Germuska
At 12:16 PM -0400 7/12/04, Erik Weber wrote: Joe, thanks for your opinion. You and Rick have convinced me to stay with one form page for add/update. I did this before in a non-struts app, and despite all the conditionals I ended up with, the ensuing layout revisions did make it worth it. So, Jo

Re: Prepopulating forms

2004-07-12 Thread Wendy Smoak
From: "Erik Weber" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Joe, thanks for your opinion. You and Rick have convinced me to stay > with one form page for add/update. I did this before in a non-struts > app, and despite all the conditionals I ended up with, the ensuing > layout revisions did make it worth it. Take a

Re: Prepopulating forms

2004-07-12 Thread Erik Weber
Thanks Rick. As I said in another response, I think I will go with a shared add/update form. Also, I think we meant the same thing, as far as action mappings go, I just didn't explain very clearly. Indeed, I think now I will just map an action to every screen and the user will never see "*.jsp"

Re: Prepopulating forms

2004-07-12 Thread Erik Weber
Joe, thanks for your opinion. You and Rick have convinced me to stay with one form page for add/update. I did this before in a non-struts app, and despite all the conditionals I ended up with, the ensuing layout revisions did make it worth it. So, Joe, I am not using Dyna Forms, just plain old

Re: Prepopulating forms

2004-07-12 Thread Joe Germuska
In my experience, it helps all involved to avoid redundancy and copying. If you logically treat inserts and updates as more "same" than "different" then you're better off making one page with conditionals. This serves as implicit documentation of the fact that they are more the same, while ha

Re: Prepopulating forms

2004-07-12 Thread Rick Reumann
On Mon, 12 Jul 2004 10:31:29 -0400, Erik Weber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 1) Use two different JSPs to house these forms, even though there will be a lot of redundancy, because the fields may have some variation, and because I'm not fond of having conditionals in the form (if (add) { } els