you just need as="array"
and you will get a String[]
On Wed, Jul 03, 2002 at 11:42:56AM -0600, Matthew Hailstone wrote:
> I'm trying to access multiple values of a request parameter resulting
> from a multiple select HTML element.
>
> String stateString = "CA";
> int iLengthStateString = 0;
> for( int i=0; i < <xsp-request:get-parameter-values
> name="state"/>.getSize() ; i++ ){
> stateString += ((i>0?" ":"") +
> <xsp-request:get-parameter-values name="state"/>.getElement(i));
> }
> iLengthStateString = stateString.length();
> <xsp-session:set-attribute
> name="state"><xsp:expr>stateString</xsp:expr></xsp-session:set-attribute
> >
> <field id="state" label="State" type="text" enable="false">
> <size><xsp:expr>iLengthStateString</xsp:expr></size>
> <value><xsp:expr>stateString</xsp:expr></value>
> </field>
>
> It looks like in the generated .java file that I'm using the
> <xsp-request:get-parameter-values name="state"/> tag incorrectly. I'm
> expecting it to return an ArrayList or Vector or something, but it's
> not. I've looked in the online documentation
> (http://xml.apache.org/cocoon/userdocs/xsp/request.html) but I'm not
> understanding the "as" attribute and/or how to use it in an example of
> code. Any thoughts on this would be extremely helpful.
>
> Environment: Tomcat 4.1.3, Cocoon 2.1-dev
>
> Thanks,
>
> Matthew
>
> P.S. Here is the compile exception:
>
> XSPRequestHelper.getParameterValues(objectModel,
> this.contentHandler,
> "state",
> null,
> null);
>
> // start error (lines 783-783) " illegal start of expression"
> .getSize() ; i++ ){
>
> // end error
> stateString += ((i>0?" ":"") +
> XSPRequestHelper.getParameterValues(objectModel,
> this.contentHandler,
> "state",
> null,
>
> ...
> ERROR 2 (D:\apps\Tomcat
> 4.1\work\Standalone\localhost\cocoon\cocoon-files\org/apache/cocoon/www/
> eval/logic\form_xsp.java):
> ...
> XSPRequestHelper.getParameterValues(objectModel,
> this.contentHandler,
> "state",
> null,
> null);
>
> // start error (lines 783-783) " ';' expected"
> .getSize() ; i++ ){
>
> // end error
> stateString += ((i>0?" ":"") +
> XSPRequestHelper.getParameterValues(objectModel,
> this.contentHandler,
> "state",
> null,
>
> ...
> ERROR 3 (D:\apps\Tomcat
> 4.1\work\Standalone\localhost\cocoon\cocoon-files\org/apache/cocoon/www/
> eval/logic\form_xsp.java):
> ...
> else{
> String stateString = "UT";
> int iLengthStateString = 0;
> for( int i=0; i <
>
> // start error (lines 779-779) " 'void' type not allowed here"
> XSPRequestHelper.getParameterValues(objectModel,
> this.contentHandler,
>
> // end error
> "state",
> null,
> null);
> .getSize() ; i++ ){
>
> ...
> ERROR 4 (D:\apps\Tomcat
> 4.1\work\Standalone\localhost\cocoon\cocoon-files\org/apache/cocoon/www/
> eval/logic\form_xsp.java):
> ...
> XSPRequestHelper.getParameterValues(objectModel,
> this.contentHandler,
> "state",
> null,
> null);
>
> // start error (lines 783-783) " variable i not found in class
> org.apache.cocoon.www.eval.logic.form_xsp"
> .getSize() ; i++ ){
>
> // end error
> stateString += ((i>0?" ":"") +
> XSPRequestHelper.getParameterValues(objectModel,
> this.contentHandler,
> "state",
> null,
>
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