> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bailey, Shane C. [mailto:SHANE.C.BAILEY@saic.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2003 10:10 PM
> To: 'Struts Users Mailing List'
> Subject: RE: Reusing the same HTML Form for many actions
>
>
>
> I don't agree that these things are two COMPLETELY different
> things. Adding
> a User and editing a Group might be two completely different things but in
> the one case a adding a User and editing a User are very similar. Passing
> almost the same field value pairs to the middle tier to do something with
> them.
>
> Then DispatchAction never has a place to exist if all things exactly the
> same must be in an action.
>
> Anyway, so thought you were doing something more complicated because the
> answer then is simple:
>
> struts config:
> <action path="/addUser"
> type="my.web.action.AddUserAction"
> name="userForm"
> input="doc.userForm"
> scope="request">
> <forward name="showUserForm" path="doc.userForm"/>
> <forward name="showConfirm" path="doc.addUserConfirm"/>
> </action>
>
> <action path="/editUser"
> type="my.web.action.UpdateUserAction"
> name="userForm"
> input="doc.userForm"
> scope="request">
> <forward name="showUserForm" path="doc.userForm"/>
> <forward name="showConfirm" path="doc.updateUserConfirm"/>
> </action>
>
> Now both actions are using the same form and same JSP (or definition).
>
> Well then you say, "My validation is slightly different between
> the two" or
> something like that I suppose.
>
> Then make sure your actions extend ValidatorActionForm so that
> you can base
> your validation for the userForm per action name coming in.
>
> validation.xml:
>
> <form name="/addUser">
> <!-- do validation one way for this action but same form ->
> </form>
> <form name="/editUser">
> <!-- do validation one way for this action but same form ->
> </form>
>
>
> Am I missing something here?
>
Yes.
It's not a problem of configuration of Struts.
It is purly a problem of using this "shared form" in my JSP pages.
How to write JSP code snippet which will let me conditinally choose
which action I want to use?
I preferably would like to use form (again just in the measing of JSP code)
as a tile.
So I can just do:
<html:form action="<tiles:getAsString name="action"/>" focus="name"
onsubmit="return validateCustomerForm(this)">
and then in my first jsp page:
<tiles:insert definition="@forms.user" flush="false" >
<tiles:put name="action" value ="/user/add"/>
</tiles:insert>
and in my second jsp page:
<tiles:insert definition="@forms.user" flush="false" >
<tiles:put name="action" value ="/user/edit"/>
</tiles:insert>
etc..
Unfortunately this syntax does not seems to work...
I am not 100% sure if tiles are appropriate for this task.
So I am asking what is the /best practice/guide line/ for
implementing such thing?
Michal
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