So my guess was correct - so see my previous answer.
Niall
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ricardo Gladwell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Struts Users Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, August 06, 2004 3:56 PM
Subject: Re: Problem setting nested bean properties on ActionForms
> Hi Niall,
>
> My form-bean definition is included below:
>
> <form-bean
> name="configureForm"
> type="org.apache.struts.action.DynaActionForm">
> <form-property
> name="title"
> type="java.lang.String"
> />
> <form-property
> name="webdav.url"
> type="java.lang.String"
> />
> </form-bean>
>
> -- rg
>
> Niall Pemberton wrote:
> > If you have
> >
> > <html:text property="webdav.url" value="${config.webdav.url}"/>
> >
> > in your jsp, then Struts (using BeanUtils) will try and do a
get("webdav")
> > on your DynaActionForm so that it can then call set("url") on the bean
> > returned from the get.
> >
> > So when you say "I checked and the property setter method for the
> > DynaActionForm in the example I cited is being called and the
'webdav.url'
> > string is being passed as the property name" - this doesn't seem right
to
> > me. If it is being called then its not the Struts form population
mechanism
> > thats doing it.
> >
> > I'm guessing that in your struts config for the DynaActionForm
definition
> > you have a property called "webdav.url" - if so then maybe its the form
> > initializtion thats setting "webdav.url" to null. If this is the case
then
> > its never going to work this way. You need a "webdav" property that is
some
> > kind of bean and then a "url" property in that bean and you somehow need
to
> > have that bean set up in your form before the population is done.
> >
> > If I'm completely off base here then you need to post more information -
how
> > about posting the form definition from your struts-config.xml.
> >
> > Niall
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Ricardo Gladwell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: "Jakarta Struts Users" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Friday, August 06, 2004 2:02 PM
> > Subject: Problem setting nested bean properties on ActionForms
> >
> >
> >
> >>Hi All,
> >>
> >>I'm having some problems with nested properties in Strust. Struts seems
> >>to loose property values when specifying nested bean properties in
> >>an action form. For example, the following fragment is an example of
> >>attempting to set a value in a view JSP:
> >>
> >><html:text property="webdav.url" value="${config.webdav.url}"/>
> >>
> >>When Struts attempts to set the webdav.url nested bean property for,
> >>example, a DynaActionForm the value is passed as null to the action form
> >>setter method.
> >>
> >>In the documentation it clearly states that "the property attribute for
> >>the Struts-HTML tags accept simple, nested, and indexed expressions":
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
http://struts.apache.org/api/org/apache/struts/taglib/html/package-summary.html#package_description
> >
> >>I checked and the property setter method for the DynaActionForm in the
> >>example I cited is being called and the 'webdav.url' string is being
> >>passed as the property name but the property value passed is 'null'
> >>despite the fact that I have entered a value. When I switch to using
> >>standard, non-nested property name values in the html:text tag the
> >>values are set correctly.
> >>
> >>Is this proper behaviour for Struts or is it some kind of bug?
> >>
> >>Kind regards...
> >>
> >>-- Ricardo
> >>
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