Ok, then what am I missing? I have a jsp/html form that needs to be 'pre-populated' with dynamic fields from a table in a database that simply has name-value pairs. I'm willing to accept that I'm looking at the world the wrong way... what's the right way?
-----Original Message----- From: Dakota Jack [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 11, 2005 9:48 AM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Re: Correct Prepopulate Method Too bad ActionForms were called "ActionForms" rather than something like "ActionData", "ActionState", or "ActionContext". The html pages are "populated", I guess, with data. If you try to map ActionForms to html or JSP forms, I think your whole way of looking at the problems becomes completely skewed. Think of the form data as data and not as some ghost of the form. The term "pre-populate", in my opinion, is not very useful. On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 09:18:15 -0700, Schuster Joel M Contr ESC/NDC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've read a number of articles about correct pre-populate forms methods, > including the following: > > 1. http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-09-2004/jw-0913-struts-p3.html > <http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-09-2004/jw-0913-struts-p3.html> > 2. http://struts.apache.org/faqs/newbie.html#prepopulate > <http://struts.apache.org/faqs/newbie.html#prepopulate> > 3. > http://www.coreservlets.com/Apache-Struts-Tutorial/Struts-Forms.html#Ex1-Ste > p1 > <http://www.coreservlets.com/Apache-Struts-Tutorial/Struts-Forms.html#Ex1-St > ep1> > > I have some questions. > > The first article does not talk specifics about how Lazy-Loading would be > implemented. > > The second doesn't talk about how the actual pre-population would be > implemented in the action. > > And the third does it in a way that's different from how others do it. > > Here's what I've gotten so far... > > There are two different ways that I see to do it. > > 1. Load the FormBean up in the constructor. > > a. This does not work in Dyna*Forms since there's no actual > implementation > b. This then moves the logic to the actual form bean which is not where > it's supposed to be. > > 2. Load the FormBean in a precursor Action > > a. This works well but every example I've seen then does something like > this: > > Request.getSession().setAttribute( '"formBean", bean); > > This seems like a bad idea since it places the bean into the session scope. > I've tried doing this by putting it directly into request but of course the > jsp then doesn't have access to it because the request on the Action is not > in the same scope as the 'form'.jsp > > So I guess I'm at a loss on how best to pre-populate Dyna*Forms. Examples > that have worked from your experience would be appreciated. > > -- "You can lead a horse to water but you cannot make it float on its back." ~Dakota Jack~ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
