Selecting and setting Bean Object from html:select

[Andrew McDowall]

Hi,

I am trying to get an html:select with html:optionsCollection to set a
property in my ActionForm with the actuall bean that was selected rather
than the associated value:

// Bean class
public class Item
{
    int id;
    String name;

    public int getId() { return id; }
    public void setId(int id) { this.id = id; }

    public String getName() { return name; }
    public void setName(String name) { this.name = name; }
}

// ActionForm
public class itemForm extends ActionForm
{
    Item selectedItem;
    List<Item> allItems;

    public Item getSelectedItem() { return selectedItem; }
    public void setSelectedItem(Item selectedItem) { this.selectedItem =
selectedItem; }

    public List<Item> getAllItems() { ... }
}

// jsp page
<html:select property="selectedItem">
    <html:optionsCollection property="allItems" label="name"
value="id"/>
</html:select>

Obviously this fails since it will try and call setSelectedItem with an
int value causing a argument type mismatch exception.  Is there a way to
make it use the actual Item Bean that was selected or it is simpler for
me to just retrieve the id value and use this to match the selected bean
elsewhere?

Thanks in advance.
Andy McDowall


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