Information lost on error.

[Achal Jalan]

Hi,

I have made a struts web project.

The problem I am having is when a user enters the values into the form and submits it.
If any one of the user inputted values are invalid, then I get the action to forwards back to
the input page. In doing so all the values that the user inputed in the form are lost.
Is there any way in which these values can be stored, apart from cookies.

Thanks
Achal Jalan

[Merrill Higginson]

Achal,

This shouldn't happen. Are you using the struts custom tags in your JSP? By this I mean <html:text> , <html:select>, <html:checkbox>, etc. If you use the struts tags along with a struts form bean, populating the fields is done for you when returning from a validation error. If you use the standard html tags, it is not.

[Ardoks Mathews]

I am having a similar problem i am using all struts only still getting it but only in html:select others like html:text are coming fine, is it something special with html:select, for more information on my error please read my full problem under heading html:select vanishing values just after this topic
Thanks

[Achal Jalan]

Hi Merrill / Ardoks

I am using the struts tags and not HTML tags.

The code in my JSP is as follows

 
<html:form action="/forward">
 
<html:hidden property="ename" value="<%=briefingInfoForm.getEname()%>" />
<html:hidden property="eemail" value="<%=briefingInfoForm.getEemail()%>" />

<TABLE border="0">
<TBODY>
<TR>
<TH>cname</TH>
<TD><html:text property="cname" size="50" maxlength="50" value=""/></TD>
</TR>
<TR>
<TH>cscontact</TH>
<TD><html:text property="cscontact" size="50" maxlength="50" value=""/></TD>
</TR>
<TR>
<TH>csname</TH>
<TD><html:text property="csname" size="50" maxlength="50" value=""/></TD>
</TR>
<TR>
<TH>bdate</TH>
<TD><html:text property="bdate" size="15" maxlength="15" value=""/></TD>
</TR>
<TR>
<TH>bon</TH>
<TD><html:text property="bon" size="50" maxlength="50" value=""/></TD>
</TR>
<TR>
<TH>bloc</TH>
<TD><html:text property="bloc" size="50" maxlength="50" value=""/></TD>
</TR>
<TR>
<TH>btime</TH>
<TD><html:text property="btime" size="10" maxlength="10" value=""/></TD>
</TR>
<TR>
<TH>sftRq</TH>
<TD><html:text property="sftRq" size="50" maxlength="50" value=""/></TD>
</TR>
<TR>
<TH>tchSpk</TH>
<TD><html:text property="tchSpk" size="50" maxlength="100" value=""/></TD>
</TR>
<TR>
<TH>comments</TH>
<TD><html:textarea property="comments" value="" cols="41"/></TD>
</TR>
<TR>
<TH></TH>
<TD><html:hidden property="validator" value="2" /></TD>
</TR>
<TR>
<TD><html:submit property="submit" value="Submit" /></TD>
<TD><html:reset /></TD>
</TR>
</TBODY>
</TABLE>
</html:form>

My assumption is it is because of the value I am setting for each of the fields, please let me know what I am doing wrong if this is the case or any other reason that you might think about.

P.S-> Everything is stored under the request scope.

Thanks
Achal Jalan

[Merrill Higginson]

In your action class, did you remember to place the form object in the request?

There should be a statement similar to this in your code prior to returning the forward object:

request.setAttribute("MyForm", myForm);

g

[Jayesh Lalwani]

Umm..little rusty with struts. But won't setting the value attribute to blank cause a problem?

<html:text property="cname" size="50" maxlength="50" [B]value=""[/B]/>

In your struts-config, what is the scope of the form-bean?

J

[Achal Jalan]

setting the value caused the problem

it wrks fine now. Thanks a bunch guys