populating BindingActionForm

[aburgel]

hi,

i've been playing around with adding Web Flow to an existing struts app. i have a form object thats coming out of the database.

I need some way to bind the form object back to the BindingActionForm, so I can use the struts taglibs to prepopulate the html form.

Looking through the code, I see that FlowAction only binds the errors back on to the BindingActionForm, but not the form object.

Is there a recommended way to handle this?

I was thinking something along the lines of a FlowExecutionListener that could on 'requestProcessed' get the StrutsEvent and pull out the BindingActionForm and do a BeanUtils.copyProperties of form object to the action form.

The only thing is that this should probably only happen on a new form or a successul request, because on an error you would want the ActionForm to contain the original input from the user.

Any thoughts?

[aburgel]

nevermind...

i had a configuration issue and i didn't see what BindingAwarePropertyUtils was doing.

very clever stuff :-)

thanks.