Hi all,
I'm just getting started with Struts 1.3.x and I've run into a problem I
just can't seem to find a way to tackle. I am simply trying to load data
from a database and populate it in a form-bean.
The flow is like this:
1. user logs in
2. authenticate user
3. display a main form with user specific data in
<html:select>
If I do static initialization of data in the ActionForm, the data shows
up just as I would expect.
My question is, where do I need to load the information and how do I
inject it into the form-bean object.
Skipping the jdbc connectivity at this point, I have tried the
following:
public ActionForward execute(ActionMapping mapping,
ActionForm form,
HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse
response)
throws Exception {
BuildMainForm bmf = (BuildMainForm)form;
ArrayList builds = new ArrayList();
builds.add(new LabelValueBean("build 1", "build 1"));
builds.add(new LabelValueBean("build 2", "build 2"));
builds.add(new LabelValueBean("build 3", "build 3"));
bmf.setBuilds(builds);
return mapping.findForward("Success");
} // End execute()
I tried putting this in my LoginAction class to no effect, and I have
put it in my MainAction class. Since my current forward action for my
main class just goes back to main, if I do click submit and get
forwarded back to the same page, the options do appear in my drop down.
I have the following tags in my jsp:
<html:select property="buildNameOld">
<html:optionsCollection property="builds"/>
</html:select>
and from my struts-config.xml
<form-bean
name="loginForm"
type="LoginForm"/>
<form-bean
name="buildMainForm"
type="BuildMainForm" />
<action path="/login"
type="LoginAction"
name="loginForm"
scope="request"
validate="false"
input="/login.jsp">
<forward name="Success" path="/build_main.jsp" />
<forward name="Fail" path="/login_fail.jsp" />
</action>
<action path="/build_main"
type="BuildMainAction"
name="buildMainForm"
scope="request"
validate="false" >
<forward name="Success" path="/build_main.jsp" />
<forward name="Fail" path="/login_fail.jsp" />
</action>
Any guidance on this would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Lynch
