How to set actionForm initial values from session attributes

[Sam Sunamin]

Requirements:

I need to populate the initial values from Session attributes using actionForm. Can anyone help me?

For Example, I have a customer whose credit card's number, address, phone number and so on are already stored as session attributes.

Before the customer pay his bill, he may change his credit information. So I used action form to work with action class and the action form should have the initial values from attribute.

Help me, please and thank you in advance.
[ July 18, 2007: Message edited by: Sam Sunamin ]

[Merrill Higginson]

This sounds pretty straightforward to me. Just create an Action class that forwards to the JSP. In that Action class, retrieve the values from the session and put them in the ActionForm. Example:

MySessionUserObject user = (MySessionUserObject)request.getSession().getAttribute("mySessionUserObjet");
MyActionForm myForm = (MyActionForm) form;
myForm.setCreditCard(user.getCreditCard());
myForm.setShoeSize(user.getShoeSize());
// etc.
return mapping.findForward("success");

In the above code, the variable form represents the ActionForm object passed into the execute method as a parameter.
[ July 18, 2007: Message edited by: Merrill Higginson ]

[Sam Sunamin]

Thank you so much,Merrill.

I got the idea.