Submitting form to an ActionMapping with no formbean?

[pr...@vdsinc.com]

Hello all, I have a quick question...  if I have an ActionMapping defined,
which uses type org.apache.struts.actions.ForwardAction, and I want
to invoke this Action via a form submit button, what is the best way
to accomplish this?

If I don't specify a formbean in the ActionMapping definition,
I get an error "Cannot retrieve definition for form bean null'" but
in this case, the Action doesn't need any form information.

For now, I worked around this by creating a class NullForm that
extends ActionForm, and creating a formbean "dummy" using
this class, and then naming it in my ActionMapping definition.
I was wondering if there was a better way to do this?

Thanks,


Phillip Rhodes
Application Designer
Voice Data Solutions
919-571-4300 x225
prhodes@vdsinc.com

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Re: Submitting form to an ActionMapping with no formbean?

[Kevin Williams <kw...@tarity.com>]

I had this same problem...it was because I had accidentally included
some additional information in my action mapping for that action in my
struts-config.xml file.  I've successfully done what you're talking
about if I keep it at just:

<action path="/add_contact"
 	type="com.equiscape.webapp.crm.action.CreateContact">
	<forward name="success" path="/add_quick_contact.do"/>
</action>

On Thu, 2003-03-13 at 17:22, prhodes@vdsinc.com wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Hello all, I have a quick question...  if I have an ActionMapping defined,
> which uses type org.apache.struts.actions.ForwardAction, and I want
> to invoke this Action via a form submit button, what is the best way
> to accomplish this?
> 
> If I don't specify a formbean in the ActionMapping definition,
> I get an error "Cannot retrieve definition for form bean null'" but
> in this case, the Action doesn't need any form information.
> 
> For now, I worked around this by creating a class NullForm that
> extends ActionForm, and creating a formbean "dummy" using
> this class, and then naming it in my ActionMapping definition.
> I was wondering if there was a better way to do this?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> 
> Phillip Rhodes
> Application Designer
> Voice Data Solutions
> 919-571-4300 x225
> prhodes@vdsinc.com
> 
> Those who are willing to sacrifice essential liberties for a little order,
> will
> lose both and deserve neither. - Benjamin Franklin
> 
> This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it.
> 
> Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can
> exercise
> their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary
> right to overthrow it.  - Abraham Lincoln
> 
> No citizen shall be denied the right to bear arms, if as a last resort, to
> protect themselves from tyranny in Government. - Thomas Jefferson
> 
> 
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