Set object to FlowScope in Action View Method

[pablocossioabastoflor]

Hi, thank you again for share your work.

I built a flow to save hotel bookings before, and now I want to use the same in Edit mode.
I have an action named "start" that is not a flow step. This action "start" shows the View for first step.
I set all Flow Scope objects in "start" method in edition mode, to be able to preview the data.
The problem is, as the "start" method is a view method, when I set the flow scope objects, it get lost on the next step. I know I can put these data as hidden fields, or save to the session. But I was hoping to avoid that to make the code as clean as possible, and use the plugin Flow Scope.

Then I think, it would be great to pre populate all the Flow Scope Objects, just before the flow starts.

Here is the source code.

public String start() {

    if (editMode && bookingID > 0) {
        setBookingProfile(bookingManager.getBookingProfile(bookingID));
        setGuestProfile(bookingProfile.getGuestProfile());
    }
    return SUCCESS;
}

     <action name="start" method="start" class="com.pms.web.actions.GuestReservationFlowAction">
        <result type="tiles">guestReservationFlowStep1</result>
    </action>

    <action name="step1" method="step1" class="com.pms.web.actions.GuestReservationFlowAction">
        <param name="actionFlowStep">1</param>

        <result name="input" type="tiles">guestReservationFlowStep1</result>
        <result name="error" type="tiles">guestReservationFlowStep1</result>
    </action>

    <action name="step2" method="step2" class="com.pms.web.actions.GuestReservationFlowAction">
        <param name="actionFlowStep">2</param>

        <result name="input" type="tiles">guestReservationFlowStep2</result>
        <result name="error" type="tiles">guestReservationFlowStep2</result>
    </action>

    <action name="step3" method="step3" class="com.pms.web.actions.GuestReservationFlowAction">
        <param name="actionFlowStep">3</param>

        <result name="input" type="tiles">guestReservationFlowStep3</result>
        <result name="error" type="tiles">guestReservationFlowStep3</result>
    </action>

Thank you in advance.

[aleksandr-m]

Which action do you execute when values are getting lost? Which version of the plugin do you use? Can you show your start jsp?

[pablocossioabastoflor]

The action attributes marked with "@ActionFlowScope" are saved to the scope on submit forms right?. I was hoping to be able to set these "@ActionFlowScope" attributes to the scope at any time manually, for example from some overwriten "View Method" like "step3View" having a step action named "step3".

[aleksandr-m]

What do you mean by at any time manually? Can you show some code?