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Cannot Retrieve Definition for Form Bean Null

 
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I have problem with displaying my JSP. The error message is:


'[ServletException in:/frame/content/messageForm.jsp] Cannot retrieve definition for form bean null'


1. I click on this link:


2. the action mapping in struts-config.xml is:

3. the tile piece .message.Form in the tiles-def.xml:

4. And my messageForm.jsp has:

<%@ taglib uri="/tags/struts-html" prefix="html" %>

<html:form action="/message/SendMessage">

all <html: .... and HTML tags for a form. The
code behaves well because I am able to see the
form in IDE view.

</html:form>

5. the action mapping in struts-config.xml:

6. the 'SendMessage.java' that is supposed to retrieve
the information in the form upon submit has not yet
been prepared yet.

7. close to the top of the struts-config.xml file, I
have:

What am I missing?
 
JiaPei Jen
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I experimented a little bit:

1. I changed all struts tags to html tags in my messageForm.jsp and I also excluded the opening <html:form> and closing </html:form> tag.

The action mapping shown below works fine. I am able to see the form that I want to display in the browser.

<action
path="/MailMessage"
parameter=".message.Form"
type="org.apache.struts.actions.ForwardAction"/>

2. I then added the opening <html:form> in the beginning of the messageForm.jsp and the closing </html:form> tag at the end of the messageForm.jsp.

I got the error message 'cannot retrieve definition for form bean null'

3. the <html:form> tag looks like (copied from my
code):

<html:form action="/message/SendMessage">

4. the action mapping in the struts-config.xml looks
like (copied from my code):

<action
path="/message/SendMessage"
type="org.dhsinfo.message.SendMessage"
name="messageForm"
scope="request"
validate="false"
input=".message.Form">
<forward
name="success"
path="/confirmation/messageForwarded.jsp"/>
</action>

5. I have not yet prepared the SendMessage.java in the AppRoot/org/dhsinfo/message folder yet.

What could be the cause of the problem?
 
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> > From: Caroline Jen
> > Sent: Friday, September 10, 2004 12:37 PM
> > To: Struts Users Mailing List
> > Subject: RE: [SOLVED]Cannot retrieve definition
> for form bean null
> >
> >
> > Hi, I have found the mistake.
> >
> > The mistake is that <html:textarea> is not a
> struts
> > tag equivalent to HTML <textarea> tag.
>
 
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I know this is an old post...has your problem been solved yet? If not I just wanted to let you know that I had the same problem and I found the following explanation doing a google search:

Exception org.apache.jasper.JasperException: Cannot retrieve definition for form bean null
Probable Cause


This exception typically occurs because Struts cannot find the form bean it expects for a specific action according to the mapping in the struts-config.xml file. Most often, this is probably because the name given to the form in the name attribute of the form-bean element does not match the name attribute of the associated action's action element. In other words, the action and form should each have a name attribute that matches exactly, including case. It has been reported that this error has been seen when no name attribute is associated with the action. If there is no name attribute in an action element, no form is associated with the action. Others have reported this error as merely a symptom of something completely unrelated (all too common), but the mismatch of name attributes in the form-bean and action elements in the struts-config.xml file is the usual culprit.



My problem was that I had left the "name" attribute out of some of the tags in my struts-config.xml.
 
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Ronnie,

Read the posts carefully. The form-bean-null problem was fixed when she added the html:form tags to her page.

This worked for her because it sets up a default bean to be used by the enclosed html: tags so that the name attribute becomes unnecessary.
 
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