Trouble populating form

[ro...@bowtech.com]

Not able to get attributes from ActionForm into html form


//in action form

        MemberDetailsEditForm returnForm = new MemberDetailsEditForm();
        MemberVO vo = (MemberVO) results.iterator().next();

        returnForm.setFirstName(vo.getFirstName());
        returnForm.setLastName(vo.getLastName());

        request.setAttribute("results", returnForm);

<%-- in jsp --%>

<%= request.getAttribute("results") %>
<%-- shows results is there as a MemberDetailsEditForm - subclass of
ActionForm ---%>

<bean:define id="member" property="results"
type="com.bowtech.web.forms.MemberDetailsEditForm" />


<html:form name="member" method="post" action="member_edit.do"
type="com.bowtech.web.forms.MemberDetailsEditForm" >

<bean:write id="member" property="firstName"/>

<%-- **********************
            does not write firstName

        ********************* --%>

How do I get it to write firstName

Also how would I do this in a html:text tag ??
Something like <html:text property="firstName" value="<%=
member.getFirstName %>">

</html:form>

Thanks

Ross



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Re: Trouble populating form

[Paul Thomas <pa...@tmsl.demon.co.uk>]

On 11/08/2003 14:59 ross@bowtech.com wrote:
> Not able to get attributes from ActionForm into html form
> 
> 
> //in action form
> 
>         MemberDetailsEditForm returnForm = new MemberDetailsEditForm();
>         MemberVO vo = (MemberVO) results.iterator().next();
> 
>         returnForm.setFirstName(vo.getFirstName());
>         returnForm.setLastName(vo.getLastName());
> 
>         request.setAttribute("results", returnForm);
                                ~~~~~~~~~ is this the same as the name 
attribute in
                                          your struts config for the post 
action???

because if it isn't (or if the name is right but you didn't specify 
request scope in struts config) then Struts will ignore it and create an 
empty form bean then use that.

HTH

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