RE: Form bean is null in pagecontext? - OK let's try this again...

[Kevin Roast <ke...@activiti.com>]

Hi,
 
OK, it appears that I'm using the wrong key here - i.e. I should be
using BEAN_KEY to get the Form bean not the form tag (doh).
 
HOWEVER - this doesn't explain why the ALL of the attributes on the
request scope are "null" e.g. I've printed them out to the console:
 
org.apache.struts.taglib.html.FORM=null
dataForm=null
org.apache.struts.taglib.html.BEAN=null
 
I've looked at the Struts code that sets the attributes in
FormTag.doStartTag() and it looks ok:
 
        // Store this tag itself as a page attribute
        pageContext.setAttribute(Constants.FORM_KEY, this,
PageContext.REQUEST_SCOPE);
 
Any ideas what's going on here?
 
Cheers,
 
Kev

	-----Original Message-----
	From: Kevin Roast 
	Sent: 07 October 2002 10:28
	To: struts-user@jakarta.apache.org
	Subject: Form bean is null in pagecontext? 
	
	

	Hi, 

	Does anyone know, at what point does the form bean get added to
the pageContext as an attribute? (with the key 
	org.apache.struts.taglib.html.Constants.FORM_KEY) 

	The reason I ask, is that I have a custom tag that needs to
access the form bean class directly (I have created a base form bean
class with methods I require), and I'm trying to do something like this
in the tag code:


	BaseForm form =
(BaseForm)pageContext.getAttribute(Constants.FORM_KEY); 


	Where "BaseForm" is my form bean base class type. 

	However this returns null. Any ideas? The form is specified as
"request" scope in the config file. 

	Thanks, 

	Kev