Cannot set nested bean properties on ActionForms

[Ricardo Gladwell <ri...@btinternet.com>]

Hi All,

Struts looses property values when specifying nested bean properties in 
an action form. For example, the following fragment is an example of 
attempting to set a value in a view JSP:

<html:text property="webdav.url" value="${config.webdav.url}"/>

When Struts attempts to set the webdav.url nested bean property for, 
example, a DynaActionForm the value is passed as null to the action form 
setter method.

In the documentation it clearly states that "the property attribute for 
the Struts-HTML tags accept simple, nested, and indexed expressions":

http://struts.apache.org/api/org/apache/struts/taglib/html/package-summary.html#package_description

I checked and the property setter method for the DynaActionForm in the 
example I cited is being called and the 'webdav.url' string is being 
passed as the property name but the property value passed is 'null' 
despite the fact that I have entered a value. When I switch to using 
standard, non-nested property name values in the html:text tag the 
values are set correctly.

Is this proper behaviour for Struts or is it some kind of bug?

Kind regards...

-- 
Ricardo Gladwell

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