Dealing with Html Buttons

I've gone through several deviations and techniques of handling HTML buttons in an action handler code and so far this is the best and proven code that I have came up with.

The class is called HtmlButtons and it is designed to handle buttons and image buttons in your HTML/JSP page.

Suppose we have the follwing HTML form:

<form action="/createNewUser.do">
<input type="text" name="username"/>
<input type="password" name="password"/>
<input type="submit" name="createButton" value="createButton"/>
<input type="image" name="deleteButton" value="deleteButton"/>
</form>

With HtmlButtons, the way to handle this in your action handler class would be very simple. The following is an example of a Struts Action handler:

public ActionForward execute(ActionMapping mapping, ActionForm form, 
        HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) 
            throws Exception {
            
    ActionForward forward = mapping.getInputForward();
    HtmlButtons buttons = new HtmlButtons(request);
    if (buttons.pressed("createButton")) {
        // Create User
    } else if (buttons.pressed("deleteButton")) {
        // Delete User
    }
    return forward;
}

On top of that, if you create an abstract base action class, you could actually make the HtmlButtons class be a part of your method arguments:

// ActionBase#executeAction (abstract)
public ActionForward execute(ActionMapping mapping, ActionForm form, 
    HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) 
        throws Exception {
        
    return executeAction(mapping, form, request, response, new HtmlButtons(request));
}

// Action Class Implementation
public ActionForm executeActionActionMapping mapping, ActionForm form, 
    HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response, 
    HtmlButtons buttons) throws Exception {
    
    if (buttons.pressed("createButton")) {
        // Create User
    } else if (buttons.pressed("deleteButton")) {
        // Delete User
    }    
}

View HtmlButtons.java