Prepopulating data in different forms on the same jsp.

[Karl Beowulph]

Howdy all.

I've got several different forms on a jsp page, but I can't figure out how to populate the data in others asides from the main one.

Typically I prepopulate like so:

DynaValidatorForm dyna = (DynaValidatorForm)form;
dyna.set();

But (AFAIK) that automatically uses the form provided by the action-mapping.

How do I specify a different form?

[Marc Peabody]

You'll have to grab it from its scope (assuming it already exists).

Struts saves its forms as attributes with the form-bean names defined in the struts-config.xml

For instance,
<form-bean name="javaRanchForm" type="JavaRanchForm"/>

could be retrieved with:
(JavaRanchForm)session.getAttribute("javaRanchForm");

if at some point an ActionMapping used the form already with the scope of "session".
[ September 21, 2004: Message edited by: Marc Peabody ]