Problem while modifying the value of a property inside a bean

[Anirban Das]

Hi,
I have a jsp which looks like the following

 <nested:form action="/TreeNodeAction.do"<
<nested:root name="mainSearchForm"<
<%@ include file="../includes/treeFolderHeader.inc" %<

<nested:iterate property="srvTrxNode"<
<jsp:include page="../pages/serviceTree.jsp" /<

     </nested:iterate<   
     <%@ include file="../includes/treeFolderFooter.inc" %<
   
</nested:root<
</nested:form<   

I have form bean named as MainSearchForm.java containing a property

retryAction which is a bolean property.

======================
treeFolderFooter.inc
======================

The above inlude file calls a javascript function which has the following code in it

var actionValue = document.getElementsByName("MainSearchForm.retryAction")[0];
actionValue.value='true';
}} [/CODE]

However trying this I find the bean value doesn't get changed at all.

Can anyone help me out pls ? Thanks in advance.

Cheers
Anirban

[Merrill Higginson]

Originally posted by Anirban Das:
I have form bean named as MainSearchForm.java containing a property retryAction which is a bolean property.

JavaScript doesn't operate on Java classes or properties which exist only on the server. JavaScript runs on the browser and operates only on HTML elements. Do you have an HTML element with the name "MainSearchForm.retryAction"? If not, that's why your code isn't working.

If you're not sure if you have an element with that name, use your browser's view source fuction to see the raw HTML and see if you can find name="MainSearchForm.retryAction" anywhere.

[Anirban Das]

Thanks a lot Merill. You were right. Its working fine now.


cheers
Anirban