Workshop 8.1 - How to change anchor_submit_form template ?

Question

Hi everybody !
Can i change anchor_submit_form template ? The generated JavaScript doesn't work either in IE or Mozilla : document.forms[x].submit() fails, but the request is sent because href is referencing the same URL.
I don't know if this behaviour is a known bug, but i need an workaround for it. I think the problem is document.forms[x].method='POST'.
A simple example:
1. Define your form and some inputs too
<netui:form action="myAction">2. Define a link to call your action
<netui:anchor action="myAction" formSubmit="true">3. Make sure that your action will receive a request-scoped Form
4. Call your .jsp, fill the form inputs and click at the link.
Surprise: The properties inside your ActionForm are completely blank ! The cause: onClick handler is failing and href is being executed.
Generated link source code:
a href="/contextPath/myPageFlow/myAction.do" onclick='anchor_submit_form("Netui_Form_0",
"/contextPath/myPageFlow/myAction.do");return false;'
Javascript evil source:
== Not working version ==
function anchor_submit_form(netuiName, newAction)
  for (var x=0; x<document.forms.length; x++) {
     if (document.forms[x].id == netuiName) {
        document.forms[x].method = "POST";
        document.forms[x].action = newAction;
        document.forms[x].submit();
//-->== Working version ==
function anchor_submit_form2(netuiName, newAction)
  for (var x=0; x<document.forms.length; x++) {
     if (document.forms[x].id == netuiName) {
        var form = document.forms[x];
        //form.method = "POST";
        form.action = newAction;
        form.submit();
//-->

Answer 1

Hi Daniel
When I use netui:anchor with formSubmit=true I always see form method as
"Post". Do you see the method to be "get" anytime?
I have again attached my sample as a .txt file. Please save it and rename to
.zip.
Let me know how I should change the sample to see the form method as 'Get'
More info at
http://e-docs.bea.com/workshop/docs81/doc/en/workshop/taglib/www.bea.com/workshop/netui-tags-html-1.0/anchor.html
Thanks
Vimala
<Daniel Lima> wrote in message news:[email protected]..
Hi Vimala.
Sorry, "MY bad". I'll provide a full explanation about what is
going on. BTW, i couldn't open the attached file (WinZip is complaining
about bad format file or something like that).
The original JavaScript source code was changing form.method from
get to post. For another different reason, when IE submits
the form using post, all input were sent as null values. When IE
submits the form using get (this never happen with OLD JavaScript
source), input values were correctly sent.
Initially, Mozilla was failing too with OLD JavaScript source code.
Browser was complaining about "document.forms[x] has no properties" at
document.forms[x].submit(). I really don't know why. Maybe, at some
moment, function anchor_submit_form get been defined multiple times, but i
couldn't reproduce this error again.
Mozilla now woks with both form methods: get and post (but
OLD JavaScript source code is always "forcing" post).
About IE posting form data: I'm "guessing" that the root cause of this odd
behaviour is a component that we are using to do NTLM HTTP Authentication.
When we "disable" this component, IE starts to work again !
To be fair enough, the component not seems to be the real cause, because
Mozilla works with this component. Maybe, the evil combination is THE
cause: IE + form post + NTLM Authentication + Component.
I'm sorry for MY mystake.
Can anchor_submit_form do not modify form.method ? I'll fix the other part
of my problem.
Thanks !