I am having a problem with ActionForm. Please help me out, because I have
been trying to resolve this problem for the past 4 days without getting any
solution for it. Thank you so much!
I defined the form in the struts-config.xml as:
<form-beans>
<form-bean name="programGroupForm"
type="xmps.presentation.action.form.ProgramGroupForm"/>
</form-beans>
The 3 actions that use the form-bean are:
<action path="/admin/createProgramGroup"
type="xmps.presentation.action.EditProgramGroup"
name="programGroupForm"
scope="request"
validate="false">
<forward name="success" path="/pages/programgroup/edit.jsp"/>
<forward name="failure" path="/pages/programgroup/error.jsp"/>
</action>
<action path="/admin/saveProgramGroup"
type="xmps.presentation.action.SaveProgramGroup"
name="programGroupForm"
scope="request"
validate="false">
<forward name="success" path="/pages/programgroup/save.jsp"/>
<forward name="failure" path="/pages/programgroup/error.jsp"/>
</action>
<action path="/admin/selectProgramGuide"
type="xmps.presentation.action.SelectProgramGroupItem"
name="programGroupForm"
scope="request"
validate="false">
<forward name="success" path="/pages/programgroup/search.jsp" />
<forward name="failure" path="/pages/programgroup/error.jsp" />
</action>
Everthing works perfectly fine, until a call was made to connect to another
webserver to retrieve some pages in one of the action's execute() method.
For instance:
in action SelectProgramGroupItem
public ActionForward ActionMapping mapping, ActionForm form,
HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response)
{
.....
ProgramGroup[] groups =
ProgramGroupService.getService().search(searchText)); //this is a HTTP
client call to another web-server to retrieve the program groups for a
searchText
.....
}
After this point, all the returned values from calling the ProgramGroupForm
getter methods are "null" (regardless whatver action it was in). It seems
like the way Struts handling the ActionForm got messed up. Such as:
in action EditProgramGroup
public ActionForward ActionMapping mapping, ActionForm form,
HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response)
{
ProgramGroupForm pgForm = (ProgramGroupForm)form;
pgForm.getType(); //returned null
pgForm.getDescription(); //returned null
//however, if I tried to access the parameter value directly, the
values are there.
request.getParameter("type"); //returned correct value
request.getParameter("description") //returned correct value
.....
//I tried to work around this by setting the values in the
ProgramGroupForm manually.
pgForm.setType(request.getParameter("type"));
pgForm.setDescription(pgForm.getDescription());
.....
return mapping.findForward("success");
}
Despite that I set the values in the setter methods manually, in the JSP
pages that it forwarded to, when I tried to access the properties, the
returned values are still null
<html:text propperty="type" size="50" />
<html:textarea name="programGroupForm" property="description" rows="5"
cols="50" />
Perhaps, I dont' know exactly how the ActionForm works in Struts. I was
expecting the ProgramGroupForm object in JSP is the same one that I see in
the Action's execute. If it is, then why I can't retrieve the property's
value in the JSP page, after even I manually set it in the Action's execute
method.
Regards,
-Vince
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