Struts ActionForm problem....

[Keshav Deshpande]

I am developing "search" functionality in my "struts-powered"
application. I have implemented two Action classes (one navigates a
user to the Search form and the other actually runs the search). On
the Search Results screen, the user has two options: Modify Search
and New Search.
So far so good. However, when the user requests a New Search, I
cannot seem to restore the Search form to its "new" state i.e. with
all the search criteria fields nulled out.
I have tried calling the form's reset method from within my
NavigateSearchAction class, but from what I gather from going through
the Struts ActionServlet source code, it re-populates the form
between Action calls. Essentially, it retains form "state" between
two requests. This is great, but what if I want my form state to be
changed in between two requests?
If anybody has any ideas, would deeply appreciate it.

[Tim Holloway]

You're probably defining the form bean with the wrong scope. Actually, the reset method should initialize the form bean to the values you select - though there is a special care you must take when working with boolean controls and form beans.
However, a form bean in request scope is going to be overlaid with values coming in from the request by the master dispatcher servlet BEFORE your action class's perform() is invoked.

[Keshav Deshpande]

Tim:
You da man!
You were right, I had the scopes all wrong. I have it working all right now.
Now that I look at it, the scopes I had set up earlier was just plain stupidity on my part.
Anyway, thanks for the tip.
Cheers,
Keshav