I believe the Parameters Interceptor will call your setUserName() method. I
would check that that interceptor is in the stack used for LoginAction.

-Gabe

On 2/27/07, Paul Saumets | Merge <paul.saumets@(protected):
>
> I'm having some difficulty passing along params from my action forms with
> Struts 2. I have a basic jsp form declared as follows:
>
> <s:form id="loginForm" action="executeLogin" validate="true"
> nomespace="/">
> <s:textfield id="c_username" name="userName" required="true" />
> <s:password id="c_password" name="userPassword" required="true"/>
> <s:submit name="login" key="button.login" />
> </s:form>
>
> executeLogin is correctly mapped to my LoginAction action class which
> looks something like the following:
>
> public class LoginAction extends ActionSupport {
>
>         private UserService service;
>         private String userName;
>         private String userPassword;
>
>         // service injected via Spring
>
>         public LoginAction(UserService service) {
>                 this.service = service;
>         }
>
>         public void setUserName(String userName) {
>                 this.userName = userName;
>         }
>
>         /* remaining setters & getters below */
>
>         public String execute() {
>
>                 Boolean ret = service.validateUser(getUserName(),
> getUserPassword());
>
>                 /// more follow up code here
>         }
> }
>
>
> My understanding of the Struts 2 framework is that when my action is
> called the setters on the Action class will be called as well storing my
> passed along form vars? Am I wrong on this? What exactly am I doing wrong?
> Should I implementing sessionAware and then having to access the request
> object?
>
> From reading the Mailreader example I see setters in for username and
> password in the MailreaderSupport base class so I don't see why the above
> isn't working.
>
> Would be great to get some feedback!
>
> Regards,
> Paul