FW: Question about pre-populating a BOOKMARKED page with data.

[Mi...@ubsw.com]

Either I am just trying to do something that is impossible, or I do not know what I am doing. Please help me figure out which:
 
I have a page (home.jsp) that is a secured page through FORM based JAAS in jboss 3, Struts 1.1 and Tiles and all my data is being used in a body-text.jsp tile. I want to have a LINK from there to the different user services like updating user profile, account details, and other services.
When, when a user clicks one of these links, or selects a bookmark in their browser, it goes to updateProfile.jsp page that should be pre-populated with data based on this user Principal.
 
I have tried many different things according to the documentation I have seen, but nothing seems to actually work when I just bookmark one of these pages.
 
Here is what I have tried:
1. I have setup a form entry page with the action="/updateProfile.do" and then I have an action mapping for "/updateProfile".
Now I have accessed the page and try to access the DynaActionForm  that is defined for this form.
 
struts-config.xml:
        <form-bean  name="registrationForm"
                    dynamic="true"
                    type="org.apache.struts.validator.DynaValidatorActionForm">
            <form-property name="userId" type="java.lang.Long" size="25" />
            <form-property name="username" type="java.lang.String" size="25" />
            <form-property name="password" type="java.lang.String" size="25" />
 
            <form-property name="email" type="java.lang.String" size="25" />
            <form-property name="firstName" type="java.lang.String" size="25" />
            <form-property name="middleName" type="java.lang.String" size="25" />
            <form-property name="lastName" type="java.lang.String" size="25" />
            <form-property name="address1" type="java.lang.String" size="32" />
            <form-property name="address2" type="java.lang.String" size="32" />
            <form-property name="city" type="java.lang.String" size="32" />
            <form-property name="state" type="java.lang.String" size="32" />
            <form-property name="otherState" type="java.lang.String" size="32" />
            <form-property name="postCode" type="java.lang.String" size="32" />
            <form-property name="country" type="java.lang.String" size="32" />
 
            <form-property name="phone1" type="java.lang.String" size="25" />
            <form-property name="phone2" type="java.lang.String" size="25" />
            <form-property name="phone3" type="java.lang.String" size="25" />
            <form-property name="phone4" type="java.lang.String" size="25" />
 
            <form-property name="reminders" type="java.lang.Short" size="2" />
            <form-property name="preferedLanguage" type="java.lang.String" size="10" />
 
            <form-property name="ccnumber" type="java.lang.Integer" />
            <form-property name="ccexpmonth" type="java.lang.Short" />
            <form-property name="ccexpyear" type="java.lang.Short" />
            <form-property name="cctype" type="java.lang.String" />
            <form-property name="autobill" type="java.lang.Short" />
 
            <form-property name="creationDate" type="java.sql.Date" />
            <form-property name="renewalDate" type="java.sql.Date" />
            <form-property name="lastUpdate" type="java.sql.Date" />
            <form-property name="status" type="java.lang.Short" />
            <form-property name="FormData" type="com.baselogic.icoe.user.UserDto"/>
        </form-bean>
 

        <!-- Update a user registration -->
        <action path="/updateRegistration"
                type="com.baselogic.icoe.user.UserActions"
                parameter="method"
                name="registrationForm"
                scope="request"
                input="/updateRegistration.jsp"
                validate="true">
         <forward name="success" path="/updateRegistration.jsp" redirect="true" />
         <forward name="error" path="/error.jsp" redirect="true" />
        </action>
 
UserActions.java: updateRegistration method:
    public ActionForward updateRegistration( ActionMapping mapping
                                            ,ActionForm form
                                            ,HttpServletRequest request
                                            ,HttpServletResponse response
                                            )
    throws Exception
    {
        ActionErrors errors         = new ActionErrors();
        ActionForward targetPage    = null;
 
        try
        {
            IUserServices usd = this.getUserService();
 
            UserContainer existingContainer = getUserContainer(request);
 
            UserDto userDto = existingContainer.getUserDto();
            UserDto newUserDto = null;
 
            // if first time into jsp (ie. not an update), set up UserForm object
            if( form == null || ((DynaActionForm)form).get( Constants.FORM_UPDATE_KEY ) == null)
            {
                log.info("Initialize a User DynaActionForm."); // this never prints...
                newUserDto = usd.findUser( userDto.getUsername() );
                form = usd.dtoToForm( (DynaActionForm)form, (Object)newUserDto );
            }
            else
            {
                log.info("Updating a User DynaActionForm.");
                // update merchant with form data
                newUserDto = usd.updateRegistration( (DynaActionForm)form );
 
                existingContainer.setUserDto( newUserDto );
            }
 
            ((DynaActionForm)form).set( Constants.FORM_DATA_KEY,  newUserDto );
 
            targetPage = mapping.findForward(Constants.SUCCESS_FORWARD );
        }
  catch (TechnicalException te)
  {
      errors.add( ActionErrors.GLOBAL_ERROR, new ActionError( te.getMessage() ) );
   saveErrors(request, errors);
            targetPage = new ActionForward(mapping.getInput());
  }
  catch (BusinessException be)
  {
      errors.add( ActionErrors.GLOBAL_ERROR, new ActionError( be.getMessage() ) );
   saveErrors(request, errors);
 
            targetPage = new ActionForward(mapping.getInput());
  }
  catch (Exception e)
  {
      errors.add(ActionErrors.GLOBAL_ERROR, new ActionError(e.getMessage()) );
   saveErrors(request, errors);
   targetPage = mapping.findForward(Constants.ERROR_FORWARD);
  }
 

        // report any errors to the user
        if (!errors.isEmpty())
        {
            // errors = ErrorFormatter.format(errors, resourceBundle);
            saveErrors(request, errors);
            return targetPage;
        }
 
        // Forward control to the specified success URI
        return (mapping.findForward(Constants.SUCCESS_FORWARD));
    }
 
body-text-jsp:
<%@ page contentType="text/html; charset=utf-8" %>
 
<%@ taglib uri="/WEB-INF/struts-bean.tld" prefix="bean" %>
<%@ taglib uri="/WEB-INF/struts-html.tld" prefix="html" %>
<%@ taglib uri="/WEB-INF/struts-logic.tld" prefix="logic" %>
<%@ page import="com.baselogic.icoe.Constants" %>
 
<html:form action="/updateRegistration.do" method="post">
<html:hidden property="method" value="updateRegistration"/>
 
<table width="100%" border="1" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="1">
  <tr bgcolor="#FFFF99">
 <td height="2" colspan="5">
     <img src="/icoe/images/spacer.gif" width="8" height="8" alt="" border="0">
  Select Desired Username and Password:
    </td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td colspan="5">
        Username: <bean:write name="registrationForm" property="FormData.username"/> <br />
        Password: <bean:write name="registrationForm" property="FormData.password"/> <br />
        creationDate: <bean:write name="registrationForm" property="FormData.creationDate"/> <br />
        renewalDate: <bean:write name="registrationForm" property="FormData.renewalDate"/> <br />
    </td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td><bean:message key="reg.username"/></td>
    <td><input name="username" type="text" size="20" maxlength="25"></td>
 <td width="7" height="2">
     <img src="/icoe/images/spacer.gif" width="7" height="2" alt="" border="0">
    </td>
    <td><bean:message key="reg.email"/></td>
    <td><input name="email" type="text" size="20" maxlength="50" value=""></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td><bean:message key="reg.password"/></td>
    <td><input name="password" type="password" size="20" maxlength="25"></td>
 <td width="7" height="2">
     <img src="/icoe/images/spacer.gif" width="7" height="2" alt="" border="0">
    </td>
    <td>&nbsp;</td>
    <td>&nbsp;</td>
  </tr>
There is more... But I don't think I need it here.
 
Is this a fair explaination of my issue?
 
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Thank You
 
Mick Knutson
 
Sr. Designer - Project Trust
aUBS Warburg - Zürich
Office: +41 (0)1/234.42.75
Internal: 48194
Mobile: 079.726.14.26
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