Maybe you can leverage the LazyActionForm: http://struts.apache.org/struts-action/userGuide/building_controller.html#lazy_action_form_classes
Hubert On 3/24/06, Will Hartung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Simply put I have a need for a configurable form that can have any mixture > of fields on it including, specifically, file uploads. > > Seems to me that the DynaActionForm would be the way to go about this, > however, they're defined in struts-config. > > Clearly, struts already has all of the code to convert an HTML request in to > a DynaActionForm, so I'd rather not reinvent that wheel if possible. > > Now it seems to me that I should be able to simply instantiate my own > DynaActionForm that has all of the properties that coincedently looks like > the form that's being submitted. > > Has anyone done something like this? > > I've been playing with trying to instatiate an DynaActionForm using some > "hand made" FormPropertyConfig's, and then calling > DynaFormAction.initialize(FormConfigBean), but I'm getting some null pointer > exceptions, so I'm obviously missing something. > > I'd also like to intercept the form creation process to make the > DynaActionForm on the fly during the request pipeline and, ideally, stuff > the form in the Request scope where it belongs. Right now I have to stuff it > in to the Session using an Action before the page is displayed, but > obviously this won't work if there is the potential for more than one form > to exist. > > So, anyway, has anyone tried to leverage the Struts pipeline to create "on > the fly" DynaActionForms so you could leverage all of the built in Struts > facilities? Has anyone ever successfully created a DynaActionForm directly > rather than using the struts-config file? > > Thanx! > > Regards, > > Will Hartung > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
