Creating the underlying HTML yourself is relatively trivial. I did
something similar a few months back...
I had to create a web-based repot design tool (let's not get into why we
couldn't use any of the millions of canned solutions to this...)
Anyway, the report itself was basically constructed of a large number of
div tags, all with different style attributes. All of these details
were retrieved from a database. In these layers were all sorts of text,
images, database field references, etc., all the stuff you'd typically
see on a banded report design tool. So, what was rendered in the
browser was generated completely dynamically from the database entriesm
but was of course just plain HTML.
This isn't exactly like what your trying to do, but it is similar. It's
just a matter of generating div's and their content vs. creating
input's and their content. Remember, the taglibs are optional
components, and they render straight HTML in the end anyway, so just
bypass them and you can do what you want.
I would say James is right, it IS ugly, but only if you are used to
using the taglibs in the first place. If you use them all the time,
then yes, this will appear ugly :) If you don't use them much now
though, this really doesn't seem so bad.
--
Frank W. Zammetti
Founder and Chief Software Architect
Omnytex Technologies
http://www.omnytex.com
James Mitchell wrote:
No, you will not be able to use the struts tags to generate these
(html:text, html:radio). You will need to do this 'by hand' unless you
can find some other component/framework that can handle this use case.
I had the displeasure of working on such a beast about 5 years
ago..and let me just say..it was ugly.
--
James Mitchell
Software Engineer / Open Source Evangelist
EdgeTech, Inc.
678.910.8017
AIM: jmitchtx
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Subject: create text fields/radio buttons dynamically by reading from db
I need display html tags on the screen such as text fields, radio
buttons etc
by reading them from the database.
Is there any way that the text fields/radio buttons can be created
dynamically,
in struts framework, by reading the list of html tags from the
database. I
would not like to hard code the getters and setters in a bean or add the
enteries corresponding to the html tags in configuration files for
dynaform?
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