Question

I have a JSP and I want to fill some fields with information from my Action class.
In my Action class I have a PersonDTO object.
It’s some example code only to get a picture of the design

int id = 4;
Person result = findMyRowFromDb(id);    
PersonDTO personDTO = new PersonDTO(result);
return "fillForm"

So in my JSP I want to get the values from my object.
I write something like

<input type="text" name="PersonName" id="PersonName"
    value='<s:property value="personDTO.name"/>'/>

name is a field of my PersonDTO object.
But nothing is displayed.
Can anyone help me?

Answer 1

Yes as doctrey mentioned, to display the <s:property value="personDTO.name"/> value, personDTO have to be an instance variable of your action class and also in PersonDTO class there should be a getter method for the name attribute. If so you will see your result.

And also you don’t have to use <s:property> here, you can use <s:textfield> tag like following,

<s:textfield id="PersonName" name="personDTO.name"/>