Hello, I seem to always be struggling with a particular scenario in my Struts apps and thought I would ask to see what others are doing.
In my applications, I like to present my forms with the most up-to-date data available, so I typically have a 'prep' action that grabs data from persistent storage and adds it to the request as page scope data, then forwards to the view where it is happily displayed by appropriate tags. Where I end up fighting is scenarios where I want to use built-in validation. If I use the built-in validation, struts will catch an error on the server side (like a required field is not filled out) and try to forward back to the form, which blows up since the page scope data is no longer there. Is there some other pattern that I should be using? I know I can use session scope, but then I guess I would have issues with making sure I clear the session when I'm done with the data, etc. What are others doing in this regard? I'd like to use as much of the framework as possible. I've considered turning off validation and just doing it myself in my action, then doing the preload stuff before I forward back. But then I feel like I'm doing extra work that I shouldn't have to. Thanks for any feedback. I'm hoping somebody has a better way to accomplish the same thing without all the hassles I'm currently having to work around. Cheers, gary. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
