Accesing ActionForm from flow

[Carlos Henriquez]

Hi all, I've just started using WebFlow and I can't access my ActionForm.

I made an ActionForm and want to use one of the properties of it in another method (from a POJO Class). I'm trying using this code in my flow.xml file

<view-state id="addClient" view="/addClient.jsp">
          <entry-actions>
              <action bean="userForm" method="setupForm"/>
          </entry-actions>
          <transition on="submit" to="makeDeposit">
          </transition>
   </view-state>
	
	<action-state id="makeDeposit">
		<entry-actions>
        	<action bean="userForm" method="bind"/>
		</entry-actions>
		<action bean="service" method="deposit(${client.id}, ${client.amount})" />
		<transition on="sucess" to="depositMade"></transition>
		<transition on="error" to="authorizationNeeded"></transition>
	</action-state>

But ${client.id} is not a set property (I get a ognl Exception). I've also tried with flowScope.client and flowScope.id. I tried calling the exposeFormObject after the setupForm but it's the same.

The ActionForm has Client.class as FormObjectClass and "client" as FormObjectName.

This is the UserForm class

import org.springframework.webflow.action.FormAction;

public class UserForm extends FormAction {
    public UserForm(){
        super.setFormObjectName("client");
        super.setFormObjectClass(Client.class);
    }
}

and the Client class

public class Client {
    String id;
    String amount;

    public String getAmount(){
        return amount;
    }

    public void setAmount(String amount){
        this.amount = amount;
    }

    public String getId() {
        return id;
    }

    public void setId(String id){
        this.id = id;
    }
}

Can anyone help me get access to my ActionForm from the flow?

[Christian Dupuis]

Hi,

If you expose your Client in FlowScope (which is default with the current cvs head of SWF) you should try:

${flowScope.client.id}

Cheers
Christian

[Carlos Henriquez]

Thanks. I didn't try that because I followed the javadoc comment which said that it was the default scope for RC1. I read this post today and found out that the Javadoc was wrong.

I'll try it tomorrow morning and let you know.

[Colin Yates]

Thanks. I didn't try that because I followed the javadoc comment which said that it was the default scope for RC1. I read this post today and found out that the Javadoc was wrong.

I'll try it tomorrow morning and let you know.

I think cdupuis is saying that you need to explicitly state where to retrieve the client object from; flowScope, conversationScope, requestScope, or probably more useful; model.

[Carlos Henriquez]

I just tried it and it worked perfect. Thanks cdupuis. fallofrome was right. It is not the default scope so it has to be set manually despite of the javadoc comment