DynaActionForms - solved...

["Robert S. Sfeir" <ro...@sfeir.net>]

Ok if I got everything correctly, I've setup the form in the struts 
config file then did this in my action:

	public ActionForward execute(
		ActionMapping mapping , ActionForm form , HttpServletRequest request ,
		HttpServletResponse response ) throws DatastoreException
	{
		UserDAO userImpl = DAOFactory.getDAOFactory( Constants.DAO_FACTORY 
).createUserDAO();
		UserBO user = new UserBO();
		DynaActionForm dForm = ( DynaActionForm ) form;

		user.setAccountStatus( ( String ) dForm.get( "accountStatus" ) );
		user.setUserID( ( Integer )dForm .get( "userID" ) );
		...
		//Adds user via DAO impl with OJB
		userImpl.addUser(user);
	}

If I understand this correctly, I can either have one form with all the 
possible fields in my application (YUK) or organize the fields by 
functionality of my application... like in this case it's called the 
securityForm and contains everything about a user, the address, phone 
info, group info etc... and I use it for registration, login, but not 
things like credit card for the store, since the store would have its 
own form for the credit card data and all that.

Is that pretty much the gist of it?  Or is there more to this?  It's 
pretty awesome just like that!

I noticed there was a size value for each field, is that to make sure 
that the value does not exceed a certain length?  if no isn't that what 
the validator is supposed to do?

Thanks
R


R

--
Robert S. Sfeir
Senior Java Engineer
National Institutes of Health
Center for Information Technology
Department of Enterprise Custom Applications
sfeir@mail.nih.gov


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