CORRECTION: Alias names that can be used in javascript to refere nce ......................

["Linck, Ken" <Ke...@crowncastle.com>]

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Sorry, minor correction in example needed:

The java script should be

dosomething() {
  alert(document.somethingFormConfigOptionA.command.value);
  alert(document.somethingFormConfigOptionB.command.value);
} 
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-----Original Message-----
From: Linck, Ken [mailto:Ken.Linck@crowncastle.com] 
Sent: Friday, June 04, 2004 11:36 AM
To: 'user@struts.apache.org'
Subject: Alias names that can be used in javascript to reference <html:for
m> when using multiple forms that could point to the same action?

I am in the process of removing all our Struts 1.0 deprecated code in
anticipation of moving to Struts 1.2(when its release).  I was looking at
the <html:form...> tag and how they removed the "name", "type", "scope"
attributes of the <html:form> tag stating that the action mapping will
determine these values.
 
My question is, does anything exist or will exist to refer to a form in
javascript without having to dive into a positional array when having
multiple html:form's tags pointing to the same action?(which maybe a bad
approach to begin with but at this point I am trying to avoid significant
changes to these jsps if possible).
 
Each <html:form..> had a "name"(I consider it like an alias pre Struts 1.2)
which was being referenced in javascript.  When I removed the "name"
attribute, I think the javascript broke because it could not resolve
"somethingFormConfig1.command.value" since the alias no longer exists.
 
Code tidbit below:
 
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Example that worked pre-Struts 1.2 and now broken:
 
dosomething() {
  alert(document.somethingFormConfig1.command.value);
  alert(document.somethingFormConfig2.command.value);
}
 
<html:form action="Something.do" name="somethingFormConfigOptionA">
    <html:hidden name="command" value="configA"/>
    <html:hidden name="paramX" value="123"/> </html:form>
 
<html:form action="Something.do" name="somethingFormConfigOptionB">
    <html:hidden name="command" value="configB"/>
    <html:hidden name="paramX" value="456"/> </html:form>
 
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Struts 1.2 change I put in to make it work but does not seem as
elegant(being now positional):
 
dosomething() {
  alert(document.SomethingFormConfig[0].command.value);
  alert(document.SomethingFormConfig[1].command.value);
}
 
<html:form action="Something.do">
    <html:hidden name="command" value="configA"/>
    <html:hidden name="paramX" value="123"/> </html:form>
 
<html:form action="Something.do">
    <html:hidden name="command" value="configB"/>
    <html:hidden name="paramX" value="456"/> </html:form>
 
====================================================================
 
NOTE: Assume that the name is "SomethingFormConfig" in the struts-config.
 
The only other solution I could think of is to define multiple actions
pointing to the same action and form class(if thats possible) but I did not
try that and that seemed like overkill to me to solve a javascript error at
this point unless no other elegant solution was available.
 
Thanks for advice in adance.
 

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