Call from a Form to another Form

[Jarva]

Hi friends!!!

I've to do a call from a SimpleFormController to another SimpleFormController, but I don't know how i can do it, because i want to call to the controller of the second form, not to the view.
If i use:

return new ModelandView("mysecondform","model",model);

it will go directly to the view, giving me an exception, not passing around the "formBackingObject" method.
:?:

[dhainlin]

One way I have done this is to define a view (such as "success") as a forward or redirect (if you want to expose the second action's url to the client).
Something like this in the app-servlet.xml will work...

 <bean id="adminNewProjectController" class="package.NewProjectController">
	<property name="successView"><value>redirect&#58;admin_projects.html</value></property>
    <property name="formView"><value>admin_new_project</value></property>
</bean>

The action then simply returns the a MAV with name "successView" and the action is redirection to the action that is mapped to admin_projects.html.

You can also use forward:name_of_action

HTH

[Jarva]

Thanks dhainlin

I've tried to do what you say. My ...-servlet.xml now is like that:

<!--  Validador y Controlador del formulario para la edicion de Contactos" -->
    <bean id="contactoValidator" class="jsp.ContactoValidator"/>
    <bean id="editarContactoForm" class="opr.EditarContactoFormController">
        <property name="sessionForm"><value>true</value></property>
        <property name="commandName"><value>contacto</value></property>
        <property name="commandClass"><value>jsp.ContactoCommand</value></property>
        <property name="validator"><ref bean="contactoValidator"/></property>
        <property name="formView"><value>contactos/editarContacto</value></property>
        <property name="successView"><value>redirect&#58;clientes/editarCliente.html</value></property>
        <property name="dbManagerArs">
            <ref bean="arsTarget"/>
        </property>
    </bean>

And I get the success view on my Controller with this:

return new ModelAndView(new RedirectView(getSuccessView()));

But when I execute this action, nothing happends. I get a "Not found page" on my navigator. I can't understand it, because i've all the necessary url mappings, and my Tomcat's log doesn't say me any problem

[gilbertoca]

return new ModelAndView(new RedirectView(getSuccessView()));

You don't need to redirect it again here, since you've done it (redirect:...)in your config file.

Gilberto

[Jarva]

Ok!! It works now!! My errors were that:
- weren't putting ".htm" on the success view tag at ...-servlet.xml
- using new RedirectView on the Controller side and "redirect:" on the xml side. I've change it, not using "redirect:"

Thanks a lot!!!

[vw729]

I run into the same scenairo this afternoon. After read this thread, I change the successView field of the first form with the redirect tag. It works very well. Thanks all for your helpful information.

[Jarva]