Re: struts - view, create, update user page

2005-06-06 Thread Michael Jouravlev
On 6/6/05, Tony Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, I am using struts to develop a webapp. One piece > of work is the user information. I will allow user to > create, view, and update his personal information. Maybe you would like to reconsider your three pages, and split them into "edit new",

Re: Dispatch action and validation, howto?

2005-06-06 Thread Michael Jouravlev
Turn validation off by setting validate="false" in your action mapping difinition in struts-config.xml file, and call form.validate() manually from appropriate handler methods. On 6/6/05, delbd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, i have a form using a dispatch action, amongst the actions in the >

Re: Tricky configuration?

2005-06-06 Thread Michael Jouravlev
I wonder, what kind of usability issue that could be? I see two cases: 1) At best, URL should show the path to the object, like app/task/itemid/actiontype or something. I think this is better than artificial breadcrumbs, which do basically the same. And, if a user tries to go one "directory" up, a

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Struts Dialogs: DispatchAction on steroids

2005-06-07 Thread Michael Jouravlev
: Folder: https://easywizard.dev.java.net/servlets/ProjectDocumentList?folderID=3494&expandFolder=3494&folderID=3494 File name: strutsdialog.zip Michael Jouravlev. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For addi

Re: Cannot find bean in any scope

2005-06-07 Thread Michael Jouravlev
On 6/7/05, Daniel Kies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Greetings. Here is my problem: > index.jsp does a redirect to my action. > action loads a bean with data > forwards to x.jsp > > x.jsp looks fine, data comes up fine. > > I do a refresh. I get Cannot find bean in any scope. The first time > i

Re: struts - view, create, update user page

2005-06-07 Thread Michael Jouravlev
If you want some kind of automation to build an HTML form or JSP for an arbitrary object on the fly, then Struts does not provide this service. You need to design pages yourself. Maybe there are some third-party libraries to do this. I might implement something like this as an example for Struts D

Re: Errors not showing on page

2005-06-07 Thread Michael Jouravlev
1) First, set the null attribute to "false" in your message resources config: http://www.systemmobile.com/articles/strutsMessageResources.html And check that Struts at least tries to load messages. 2) Does your form bean check for empty fields? Seems, that it forwards to "input" without handing co

Re: is performed when org.apache.struts.action.ActionErrors are in the request

2005-06-07 Thread Michael Jouravlev
Do you have <%@ taglib uri="/WEB-INF/struts-logic.tld" prefix="logic" %> in your JSP? On 6/7/05, chuck harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I had a struts 1.1 web app contained in its own > ear/war. It is/was deployed in jboss/tomcat 4.01sp1. > Most of the pages extend validatorform. The > validat

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Struts Dialogs: DispatchAction on steroids

2005-06-07 Thread Michael Jouravlev
mage buttons do only with a lot less bloating of the > code See http://www.michaelmcgrady.com/button/ > > > > On 6/7/05, Michael Jouravlev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Struts Dialogs is an extension of Struts actions that provides an > > improved user experi

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Struts Dialogs: DispatchAction on steroids

2005-06-08 Thread Michael Jouravlev
> hey, this is the internet - 4 seconds and I'm gone! ;) > > On 08/06/05 07:08 Michael Jouravlev wrote: > > You do understand that SelectAction is actually just a helper, and the > > real story is DialogAction, do you? Have you seen the Login Control > > example? >

Re: Please reply to the mailing list, not to the person

2005-06-08 Thread Michael Jouravlev
On 6/8/05, Hubert Rabago <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In a matter of a few minutes, I suddenly got three offline messages > with follow up questions. I usually don't mind, though each time I > reply to such messages, I include the text below. In this case, I > thought I'd share these thoughts wit

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Struts Dialogs: DispatchAction on steroids

2005-06-08 Thread Michael Jouravlev
> I don't understand how you managed to get the page with validate-error > not to make an entry in the browser history. I see you've turned off > automatic validation but closer than that I'm not sure. It seems to be > linked to the no-cache stuff but I didn't think the caching had anything > to do

[ANN] Struts Dialogs project joined Struts Applications project

2005-06-08 Thread Michael Jouravlev
New project homepage: http://struts.sourceforge.net/strutsdialogs/ According to survey http://jmikus.freepolls.com/cgi-bin/polls/001/poll_center.htm , about 60% of Struts developers use form beans for both input and output, that is, as temporary I/O buffer. If I am not mistaken, JSF calls these bu

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Struts Dialogs: DispatchAction on steroids

2005-06-09 Thread Michael Jouravlev
On 6/9/05, Dakota Jack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I still am absolutely amazed that you "came up with these tricks" > without even knowing that the difficulty was that you could not > directly reference a name in name value pair because includes > an .x and a .y with the name. The code you dupl

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Struts Dialogs: DispatchAction on steroids

2005-06-09 Thread Michael Jouravlev
On 6/9/05, Adam Hardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes but what about Netscape 4? only kidding :) > > The effect is neat however you do have to implement the no-cache and you > have to turn off auto-validation and then rely on the browser, so I > wonder whether it is really neat enough to be

Web Controls in Struts and DialogAction

2005-06-09 Thread Michael Jouravlev
On 6/9/05, Adam Hardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > your further discussion lost me since I only have a vague concept of > what the terms web control and portlet actually mean. I guess we actually need to establish some difinitions. I searched Struts list but did not find relevant info. If it is th

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Struts Dialogs: DispatchAction on steroids

2005-06-09 Thread Michael Jouravlev
On 6/9/05, Adam Hardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So what you are saying is that really all you need to do to implement > this feature is to keep the struts mapping the same and put no-cache > instructions in the page header. > > I can do that anyway without using DialogAction, right? I found th

Re: Adding parameter to local forwards

2005-06-10 Thread Michael Jouravlev
Something like this: ActionForward af = mapping.findForward("showParentForm"); return new ActionForward( actionForward.getName(), actionForward.getPath() + "?drawing_id=24", actionForward.getRedirect() ); You must create a new instance of ActionForward, you cannot change existing one, since

Re: [OT] using JSTL with escapeXML="false" for preview HTML

2005-06-11 Thread Michael Jouravlev
  is a non-breaking space. Regular space is just &sp; On 6/11/05, Mark Benussi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >   > > -Original Message- > From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Laurie Harper > Sent: 10 June 2005 20:00 > To: user@struts.apache.org > Subject: Re: [OT] using JSTL wi

Re: Redirect after Post and ActionMessage

2005-06-12 Thread Michael Jouravlev
You may want to take a look at the Struts Dialogs: http://struts.sourceforge.net/strutsdialogs/ It is a new development within Struts Application project. It was me who wrote the article on TSS, and I am gradually making these ideas into usable components. DialogAction is an action which uses POST

Re: Having ttruble with actions and buttons

2005-06-12 Thread Michael Jouravlev
> Ok, here is the problem. When I load up my web app the page loads fine. Which app, what page? Not enough detail, and the question is too generic. > When I try to advance to another web page in my web app all I get is a blank screen. You do not "advance to pages" in Struts. You have to get use

Re: Possible Bug in Struts Workflow Extension?

2005-06-13 Thread Michael Jouravlev
Struts Workflow Extension is not part of Struts. You need to consult its author. Also, there are alternatives to it, like Struts Flow http://struts.sourceforge.net/struts-flow or Easy Wizard http://www.superinterface.com/easywizard.htm. The last project is written by me, and is in the process of re

Re: struts and sessions

2005-06-13 Thread Michael Jouravlev
HttpSession is the same everywhere: in plain servlet/JSP, in Struts or in JBoss. On 6/13/05, marc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How do I easy and smart make a bean and put it in the client's session, > when the client logs on. So no mather where the client is, I can access > the bean. > Like a bean

Re: Having ttruble with actions and buttons

2005-06-13 Thread Michael Jouravlev
What do you mean "clear out" and what do you mean by "reload"? If you need a stateful component to obtain user data, and to be able to to redisplay the page with error messages, and to store intermediate data, and to correctly process Refresh and Back buttons, you might want to take a look at the c

Re: Having ttruble with actions and buttons

2005-06-13 Thread Michael Jouravlev
On 6/13/05, Paul Goepfert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ok here is what I am talking about. I have a form that takes in first > name, last name, street address, city, state and zipcode. When I press > on the button to enter that information into a database. I want the > page to reload with clear

Re: ensuring valid forwards

2005-06-13 Thread Michael Jouravlev
It was discussed, but I could not find a bug in Bugzilla. Yep, choosing between an exception and blank screen, I would prefer an exception with forward name. Michael. On 6/13/05, Frank W. Zammetti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yeah, that seemed a little too easy :) > > I would think it should thr

Re: LookupDispatchAction

2005-06-14 Thread Michael Jouravlev
Dakota Jack worked with image buttons: www.michaelmcgrady.com/button Maybe you find this useful. On 6/14/05, Rafael Taboada <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi folks. I'm using LookupDispatchAction in order to manage several buttons > in a form. > All work fine, but I want to use html:image instead

Re: Sending dynamic parameters to a forward

2005-06-14 Thread Michael Jouravlev
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=struts-user&m=111841184227894&w=2 > I have an action (Action1) which when completed successfully, forwards > to another action (Action2). I need to be able to send dyanamic > parameters to Action2 ---

Re: LookupDispatchAction

2005-06-14 Thread Michael Jouravlev
On 6/14/05, Wendy Smoak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you just want images on the buttons, you can do it with CSS and keep the > (which you already have working): > http://www.ampsoft.net/webdesign-l/image-button.html Neat! But images do not scale automatically, I prefer not to use them. W

Re: LookupDispatchAction

2005-06-14 Thread Michael Jouravlev
Rafael, first of all, as web developer you should always know what input your application receives. If you use Firefox, go to their plugin site and get LiveHTTPHeaders plugin, an invaluable thing. After you install it, you will be able to trace requests and responses. To save you time, I can tell

Re: LookupDispatchAction

2005-06-14 Thread Michael Jouravlev
> You need to specify method name in "value" attribute. Since it is an > image, it won't be shown: > > value="myProcName" src="myimage.gif" /> > > The above should produce request like this: > method.x=51&method.y=16&method=myProcName Hmm... Seems like MSIE do not add "method=myProcName" for va

Re: LookupDispatchAction

2005-06-14 Thread Michael Jouravlev
Yep, MSIE is a sucky one. For the following image button: Firefox generates the following: method.x=48&method.y=20&method=add while MSIE generates just the following: method.x=48&method.y=20 Hmm, how to obtain method name on MSIE? I don't know yet. But obviously I need to update my DialogAc

Re: Wildcard action paths

2005-06-14 Thread Michael Jouravlev
On 6/13/05, Laurie Harper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I didn't get any response to this last time so I'm asking again... :-) > > I'd like to replace URLs like this: > >/Sections/Subsections/?section=Section1&subsection=SubSection1 > > with URLs like this: > >/Sections/Section1/Subsecti

Re: Using ActioForm in ActionForm practice

2005-06-14 Thread Michael Jouravlev
Depends. This topic is discussed heavily from time to time. The last tide was about a month ago :) Search archives. Basically, if you need only to output your A, B, C entities, you do not need action forms. Just stick your object in the proper scope. If you need to input data into A, B, C or your

Re: Sending dynamic parameters to a forward

2005-06-14 Thread Michael Jouravlev
On 6/14/05, Zarar Siddiqi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Where do you see the af.setURL(String) method in the ActionForward class? > http://struts.apache.org/api/org/apache/struts/action/ActionForward.html > > I had a similar problem where dynamic values needed to be passed in via an > ActionForward

Re: Action chaining

2005-06-15 Thread Michael Jouravlev
First off, there is no clear definition of what chaining is. Some say, that chaining is the process of transferring control strictly on the server (forwarding from action to action), thus linking action via redirect does not count as chaining :) Also there is an opinion that two actions do not make

[OT] Session ID in the URL

2005-06-15 Thread Michael Jouravlev
Does anyone know, how to find out that URL contains session ID in it? Usually this happens only once in the beginning of a session, if browser supports cookies. I even don't need the value itself, I just want to know that fact, that session ID is appended to URL, not sent as cookie. Session ID is

Re: [OT] Session ID in the URL

2005-06-15 Thread Michael Jouravlev
D'oh! Thanks, David! On 6/15/05, David G. Friedman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > See the HttpServletRequest API for these methods: > > boolean isRequestedSessionIdFromUrl() (pre 2.1) > boolean isRequestedSessionIdFromURL() (2.1 or later) > boolean isRequestedSessionIdFromCookie() > > Regards, > D

Re: [OT] Session ID in the URL

2005-06-15 Thread Michael Jouravlev
On 6/15/05, Dave Newton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > David G. Friedman wrote: > > >See the HttpServletRequest API for these methods: > > > >boolean isRequestedSessionIdFromUrl() (pre 2.1) > >boolean isRequestedSessionIdFromURL() (2.1 or later) > >boolean isRequestedSessionIdFromCookie() > > > > >

Re: [OT] Session ID in the URL

2005-06-16 Thread Michael Jouravlev
On 6/16/05, Adam Hardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's not stupid, it returns a boolean informing you where the > session.getId() gets its info from. Makes sense to me. Makes sense to me too, but I also want to know is there session ID in the URL. Any advice how to find this out? > Although you

Re: [OT] Session ID in the URL

2005-06-16 Thread Michael Jouravlev
On 6/16/05, Adam Hardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It seems to be hard-coded behaviour that you can't do anything about > unless you want to write some javascript to check the URL and put a > token in the query string for the next request. Nah, I cannot rely on Javascript. I guess I should drop t

Re: [OT] Session ID in the URL

2005-06-16 Thread Michael Jouravlev
On 6/16/05, Adam Hardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Even quicker would be to check if you have the first request that > establishes the session, and then put some token in the form or > querystring, to mimic the JSESSIONID. Then you can just check > for your token. Yes, I guess I can do that. > I

[OT] Session ID in the URL

2005-06-16 Thread Michael Jouravlev
On 6/16/05, Max Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think this is a weird requirement, and it may be worth re-evaluating > why you want to know this (are you fighting the technology, or > leveraging it?). I can explain but remember, that you asked it first ;) It will take some time :) The point

Re: [OT] package naming nonsense

2005-06-17 Thread Michael Jouravlev
On 6/17/05, Adam Hardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What really got me on my last project was changing from one organisation > to another, the project packages had to be renamed from uk.co.bbb to > com.siemans and we actually made it all the more pointless by discussing > whether it should be com.s

Re: How do you make the form remember the form values even if it fails validation

2005-06-17 Thread Michael Jouravlev
On 6/17/05, Harland, David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > How do you make the form remember the form values even if it fails the > validation. At the moment I am having to store them in a request > attribute before calling validate. Is there an easier way. > > Thanks > > Dave. * Use strin

Re: SimpleDispatchAction error

2005-06-17 Thread Michael Jouravlev
On 6/17/05, Janek Ziniewicz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > SimpleDispatchAction inherits from Action class not from DispatchAction. > At http://wiki.apache.org/struts/StrutsCatalogDispatchActionImproved you > can read: > "You can use a dispatch action without requiring configuration of a > parameter

Re: HTML:LINK

2005-06-17 Thread Michael Jouravlev
Yep, a lot of work. SimpleDispatchAction indeed looks much simpler: http://wiki.apache.org/struts/StrutsCatalogDispatchActionImproved On 6/17/05, Zarar Siddiqi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Link looks like: > hi > > Make sure you have following in ApplicationResources.properties: > whatever.dispat

Re: [OT] package naming nonsense

2005-06-17 Thread Michael Jouravlev
On 6/17/05, Emmanouil Batsis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Adam Hardy wrote: > > > I'd love to drop the whole top-level domain but why on earth is it > > there in the first place? > > > Domain names are used as identifiers and are controlled by the or > authority that owns them; as such they are

Re: [OT] Session ID in the URL

2005-06-17 Thread Michael Jouravlev
On 6/17/05, Adam Hardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > getPathInfo() might be interesting for this. Have you tried it Michael? > I have use getPathInfo in my code but without setting up my appserver > and running it I can't tell. No, getPathInfo does not work. I guess I will just stick my own key val

Re: HTML file generated by JSP is truncated...why?...Please help!...

2005-06-18 Thread Michael Jouravlev
Do you have jsp:include on this page? If you do, do you forward from your included location to other location? On 6/18/05, O. Oke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Please help!... > > > BACKGROUND > == > I am using Tomcat-5.0.27 on Windows 2000. I use > Eclipse IDEfor dev. > > Furthermore,

Re: HTML:LINK

2005-06-20 Thread Michael Jouravlev
There is nothing impossible with Javascript ;) But I would say that this good practice is to submit forms with buttons using POST request method. Simply because that is what POST method is for. Do you really need to submit a form using link? Michael. On 6/20/05, Rafael Taboada <[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [OT] Character '+' not transmitted to server ?!?!?! Hope you can help .... it's really bizarre

2005-06-20 Thread Michael Jouravlev
RTFM URL encoding On 6/20/05, David Gagnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm using tomcat and Struts I just noticed that charater + is not > transmitted correcty to the server: > > Per example if posting to addresse > IFrameDoc.location.replace('/unikommerce/action.do?id=DAVE+++aa&l

Re: SimpleDispatchAction error

2005-06-20 Thread Michael Jouravlev
On 6/20/05, Janek Ziniewicz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I probably have found an error. It needs short description. > Each of ActionForms in my app uses two Action classes. One is > 'typical' form launched after submitting a form. Its execute method > forwards to next Action which sets data for n

Re: [OT] Character '+' not transmitted to server ?!?!?! Hope you canhelp .... it's really bizarre

2005-06-20 Thread Michael Jouravlev
> In the past years I answered a lot of questions on this forum. If you like > using RTFM (Michael, Dennis) you will be happy, you can answer a lot of > question like that here... so have fun. > > Personnaly I like that people act like adult not like kids that try to say > BIG WORDS whenever t

Re: Storing data in session scope

2005-06-21 Thread Michael Jouravlev
On 6/21/05, Rafael Taboada <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi folks. I need to store some objects in session scope in order to use > around the application. What is the best way to do that? > I need to have TAX value in any place of the application. I thought about > creating an Action class y call a

[ANN] CRUDAction is added to Struts Dialogs

2005-06-21 Thread Michael Jouravlev
CRUDAction defines all necessary handlers and mappings for basic CRUD operations like create, duplicate, edit, view and delete. Along with proven two-phase input processing (aka Post-Redirect-Get), which saves you and your users from implicit double submits and POSTDATA messages, this class makes y

Re: How to encode byte array as url parameter

2005-06-22 Thread Michael Jouravlev
Base64 will not work, because its charset includes + and / ASCII characters. So you might write something like strToHex() (or whatever its name is), for example see Cryptix library, Hex utility class. Or you can just use that class directly. On the other hand, you may use Base64, and then URLEncod

Re: Validation & Anchoring

2005-06-22 Thread Michael Jouravlev
On 6/22/05, Mark Galbreath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Validator is crap...and always has been. If you look in the archive, you > will see more complaints about Validator working over the past 3 years and > any other 2 subjects combined. Risking to start offtopic here, I would say that the wh

Re: Navigation Problem

2005-06-22 Thread Michael Jouravlev
Just cannot help it; I am sorry, just cannot keep it inside ;) On the other hand, maybe not everyone knows about it yet? Homepage: http://www.superinterface.com/easywizard.htm Live demo: http://www.superinterface.com/wizard/signupWizard.do Now back to the regular programming (c) Frank ;-) P.S. T

Re: Navigation Problem

2005-06-22 Thread Michael Jouravlev
On 6/22/05, Michael Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Michael, > > It appears from your > articles that your solution depends upon tight integration with the > application model. There are two down sides to this. The obvious one > is writing more code, where it might be generated from a model.

Re: How to create form rows dynamically

2005-06-23 Thread Michael Jouravlev
On 6/23/05, Ciaran Hanley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can somebody help me or propose a solution to the following please. > > I wish to create a form dynamically. Depending on the business logic there > could be 0 to N rows in the form. ... > I also need to iterate over a bean containing informat

Form-Action combo

2005-06-23 Thread Michael Jouravlev
WebWork actions are somewhat like Struts Action and ActionForm combined: they can transfer request parameters and can be stateful, like ActionForm, but they also can process input events, like Action. I created several rather generic action classes, like DialogAction or CRUDAction, and now working

Re: validate data problem in ActionForm - combine with tiles

2005-06-23 Thread Michael Jouravlev
1) In action mapping: validate = "false" 2) Validate manually from Action class 3) Forward where you need. On 6/23/05, Grzegorz Stasica <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi, > > The problem is that after I validate values in the method, the > controller forwards me to input page. Since I use tiles in

Re: Form-Action combo

2005-06-24 Thread Michael Jouravlev
I happened to initiate a private discussion on the topic, so if someone interested, I am sharing it, with Michael Oliver's consent. Hopefully, it is readable ;-) > On 6/23/05, Michael Oliver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > wrote: > > On 6/23/05, Michael Jouravlev &l

[ANN] Create robust wizards with enhanced Struts Dialogs

2005-06-27 Thread Michael Jouravlev
I refactored my initial Easy Wizard library, which did not have nice integration with Struts. Now, after I created Struts Dialogs, I added wizard capability as a new action: WizardAction. Check out the live wizard demo, while I am updating the docs: http://www.superinterface.com/strutsdialog/wizar

[ANN] JSP+Struts web controls

2005-06-27 Thread Michael Jouravlev
First, check out this live demo: http://www.superinterface.com/strutsdialog/embeddedmasterpage-tomcat.do See the "Sign In" cell? It is JSP/Struts web component, built with Struts Dialogs. This login component is rendered using a separate included JSP. It is: * independent. The only information nee

Re: Help me with my problem in Automatic Validation please

2005-06-28 Thread Michael Jouravlev
I think that the easiest way is not to use automatic validation. Call validate() manually from action class. If errors found, stick your datalist into request object and forward to dataform.jsp. If you want to redirect, append datalist to URL. You would need to create new ActionForward instance.

Re: Struts indexed property problem

2005-06-28 Thread Michael Jouravlev
You want bean utils to convert your proprietary value object into generic List? Umm, don't see how this is possible. Michael. On 6/28/05, Siena, Christina (.) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As you can see, the forms implement programList differently which is the > cause of the problem. In order fo

Re: Render an html button tag

2005-06-28 Thread Michael Jouravlev
On 6/28/05, Frank W. Zammetti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm curious though... I'm looking at the 4.01 spec now and I don't see > anyplace that says the non-clicked button shouldn't be submitted... I > would actually expect it to work like any other form element in that they > all get submitted r

Re: Populating the ActionForm without using the reset method?

2005-06-29 Thread Michael Jouravlev
On 6/29/05, Scott Piker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's pretty simple; you just need to populate the form bean and put it > into request/session scope prior to forwarding to your jsp when in edit > mode. You'll also need a hidden variable in your form to flag whether > you're in edit or add mode

Re: Struts and Sessions Problem

2005-06-29 Thread Michael Jouravlev
Hmm, I don't see how the session can be null. If you start from JSP, and you did not set session="false" in the page directive, then to my understanding, session should be created right in the JSP. Michael. > My index.jsp only forwards like this: > > <%@ taglib uri="/WEB-INF/struts-logic.tld" pr

Re: [slightly OT] alternatives to Tiles?

2005-06-30 Thread Michael Jouravlev
On 6/30/05, Aleksandar Matijaca <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 6/30/05, Wendy Smoak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > From: "Bill Schneider" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Tiles is very powerful but I've found that 99% of the time I'm only using > > > it to wrap a page in a consistent layout/navigation. I

Re: How to disable URL rewriting for session id?

2005-06-30 Thread Michael Jouravlev
On 6/30/05, Julian Kerr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The html:link tag automatically applies URL rewriting to maintain > session state in the absence of cookies. Is it possible to disable this > feature? Have you tried <%@ page session="false" %> ? Michael. --

Re: ActionForm reset() and redirect.

2005-07-04 Thread Michael Jouravlev
On 7/4/05, Ben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > > My form has some boolean properties and I set them to false in the > reset method. The Action that handles the form has redirect attribute > as true, i.e if there is an error, it redirects to the same page that > has the form with errors. When it

Re: architecture of composite action forms - please help

2005-07-05 Thread Michael Jouravlev
You want to have your TOs populated by Struts? Why would not you just make FatherTO as a member of ActionForm, and use it as nested property? If you want to retain TO values between requests, set form scope to "session". Michael. > Rivka Shisman wrote: > > Hello Friends, > > > > > > > > I have a

Re: architecture of composite action forms - please help

2005-07-05 Thread Michael Jouravlev
On 7/5/05, Rick Reumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Michael Jouravlev wrote the following on 7/5/2005 1:41 PM: > > You want to have your TOs populated by Struts? Why would not you just > > make FatherTO as a member of ActionForm, and use it as nested > > property? If y

Re: help with a newbie topic-prepopulating a form

2005-07-05 Thread Michael Jouravlev
On 7/5/05, Tony Dahbura <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Team: > > I am trying to pre-populate a form before letting the user enter/correct > data in it. > > The only way I have seen to do this is to actually do this prefilling > fields in the reset method of the actionform. I am not sure this is th

Re: help with a newbie topic-prepopulating a form

2005-07-05 Thread Michael Jouravlev
On 7/5/05, Rick Reumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Use the reset method only for doing things like making sure some boolean > fields are set to false. I highly recommend you DO NOT use the reset for > 'business type' logic. Having a few default things set there is fine, > but for stuff like you a

Re: help with a newbie topic-prepopulating a form

2005-07-06 Thread Michael Jouravlev
On 7/5/05, Rick Reumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Michael Jouravlev wrote the following on 7/6/2005 1:11 AM: > > On 7/5/05, Rick Reumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>Use the reset method only for doing things like making sure some boolean > >&g

Re: help with a newbie topic-prepopulating a form

2005-07-06 Thread Michael Jouravlev
On 7/6/05, Rick Reumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 1) The person asking I believe was a beginner to Struts. Suggesting to > have a DAO used in ActionForm is something definitely unorthodox and > since the person is new to the framework it is unlikely he'll see many > examples of this and it can g

Re: help with a newbie topic-prepopulating a form

2005-07-06 Thread Michael Jouravlev
On 7/6/05, Jeff Beal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here's the last paragraph of the JavaDoc for the reset() method > (emphasis in original): > > "This method is *not* the appropriate place to initialize form value > for an "update" type page (this should be done in a setup Action). You > mainly nee

Re: help with a newbie topic-prepopulating a form

2005-07-06 Thread Michael Jouravlev
On 7/6/05, Michael Jouravlev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hmm, the description for CRUDAction does not have a link to the live demo. Here it is: http://www.superinterface.com/strutsdialog/cruditemlist.do This one uses two separate actions: one for the list and another for all crud operations

help with a newbie topic-prepopulating a form

2005-07-06 Thread Michael Jouravlev
On 7/6/05, Jeff Beal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 7/6/05, Michael Jouravlev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Jeff, I don't have a blind faith in word written by someone whom I > > have not even had a drink with. > > > > ;-) > > > > Mi

Re: Printing Bills

2005-07-06 Thread Michael Jouravlev
On 7/6/05, Aleksandar Matijaca <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > PDF is definitely the way to go I would not say that pdf is "definitely the way to go". CSS with "print" media type and points or cm or inches for units (not pixels) should work quite well. Michael.

Re: Fired???? was...Re: Struts Books Recommendations

2005-07-06 Thread Michael Jouravlev
On 7/6/05, Rick Reumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I can't believe I now have to watch what I say on this mailing list. You always have to watch what you say and do, Big Brother is watching. Kidding aside, I know this first hand. Weather, football and cars seem to be safe topics. Until you call

Struts MVC design (was:: help with a newbie topic-prepopulating a form)

2005-07-06 Thread Michael Jouravlev
edit' to implement 'add new' operation. But now I use a single action class with dispatch-style handlers and redirecting to itself for rendering. Technically, it is not even chaining, because I do not use in-server forwarding, I use redirection. On 7/6/05, Rick Reumann <[EMAIL PRO

Re: Struts MVC design

2005-07-06 Thread Michael Jouravlev
On 7/6/05, Craig McClanahan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 7/6/05, Adam Hardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Now there is talk of Struts in the future containing ActionCommands > > which can be substituted in place of Actions, and strung together in a > > chain, and presumably can perform View

Re: Struts MVC design

2005-07-06 Thread Michael Jouravlev
On 7/6/05, Rick Reumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Michael Jouravlev wrote the following on 7/6/2005 5:03 PM: > > > The action class > > provides the event contract, while the action form does the dirty > > work. > > Well in this case the struts-config file

Re: need 2 parameters for html:link

2005-07-06 Thread Michael Jouravlev
On 7/6/05, Mick Knutson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have the following that works almost fine: > > paramId="commonEnrollmentID" > paramName="consumerValidatorForm" > paramProperty="commonEnrollmentID" >

Re: Two Forms, Two Form Beans, One JSP

2005-07-07 Thread Michael Jouravlev
On 7/7/05, Andrew Tomaka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey all, > > I'm attempting to create a JSP that is made up of two forms. Each > form needs a different form bean and is processed by a different > action. The catch is that the first form returns back to the JSP and > the action responsible

Re: prepopulating the form again

2005-07-07 Thread Michael Jouravlev
On 7/7/05, Rick Reumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tony Dahbura wrote the following on 7/6/2005 11:09 PM: > > > So I have a setup action. How do I in this setup action setup my > > ActionForm values so when I forward control to the form they are there > > and present for display. This form is

Re: Refresher for newbies...

2005-07-07 Thread Michael Jouravlev
On 7/7/05, Rick Reumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I posted this in reply to Tony's post, but figured this stuff comes up > all the time and to those new to Struts, this below might help > > You can accomplish 99% of what you want with this simple design Ok, Rick, lets pull out and compare

Re: Refresher for newbies...

2005-07-07 Thread Michael Jouravlev
On 7/7/05, Frank W. Zammetti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > (For any newbies reading this, the difference that matters is that with a > DispatchAction, you have a single entry in struts-config, but you have to > pass a parameter with each request. With plain Actions, you would have > multiple mappin

Re: Refresher for newbies...

2005-07-07 Thread Michael Jouravlev
Typo: I wrote "DispatchAction and its subclasses accepts input as form submission only (POST)". Must read as "DialogAction and its subclasses accepts input as form submission only (POST)" Also, two other methods for completeness. This one is called when a user submits new/updated item to persist i

Re: Refresher for newbies...

2005-07-07 Thread Michael Jouravlev
how is multiple Actions not serving from the same location? > It's not the same URL, granted, is that what you meant? > > -- > Frank W. Zammetti > Founder and Chief Software Architect > Omnytex Technologies > http://www.omnytex.com > > On Thu, July 7, 2005 1:44 pm

Re: Refresher for newbies...

2005-07-07 Thread Michael Jouravlev
On 7/7/05, Frank W. Zammetti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I understand the PRG pattern. I don't see how it is relevant to the > Action vs. DispatchAction point. > > Perhaps I'm just being dense... Perhaps. Or perhaps I cannot explain my thoughts cleanly enough. Please, reread the email and pay a

Re: Refresher for newbies...

2005-07-07 Thread Michael Jouravlev
On 7/7/05, Michael Jouravlev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Just a clarification: > Now, bring up the login form, use guest/guest and log in. Now it shows > "Logged In" form with "Log Out" button. Check the address, it is the > same as for login form. Click Back

Re: dialog stuff (was) Re: Refresher for newbies...

2005-07-07 Thread Michael Jouravlev
On 7/7/05, Rick Reumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > (moved to new topic heading, but keeping seem referenceID for those > threading).. > > Michael Jouravlev wrote the following on 7/7/2005 1:40 PM: > > > Ok, Rick, lets pull out and compare :-) But before I go into

Re: Two Forms, Two Form Beans, One JSP

2005-07-07 Thread Michael Jouravlev
On 7/7/05, Abdullah Jibaly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > No, I actually meant that Struts will only process and associate one form > with the action processing that request, and therefore any validation, etc. > So only one html form will get associated with the current ActionForm, even > with ses

Re: execute instead of get and post

2005-07-07 Thread Michael Jouravlev
On 7/7/05, Rick Reumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > klute wrote the following on 7/7/2005 3:07 PM: > > > It seems like it would make sense to have both so that > > you can use GET to set up a particular form and POST > > to process that form. Instead, I'd have to look at the > > request to see wh

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