RE: checking for an object in a collection

2004-10-07 Thread Paul McCulloch
A Map is proabably a better data structure to use than a collection. I'd consider changing the way the rules are stored, or converting the Collection to a Map in your action. Paul > -Original Message- > From: Muhammad Momin Rashid [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, October 07, 20

Re: checking for an object in a collection

2004-10-07 Thread DGraham
I may not fully understand what you're trying to do, but why not use a HashSet instead?  Let the table name be the key to the rule.   This may or may not be helpful:  http://www.javapractices.com/Topic65.cjp. Dennis "Muhammad Momin Rashid" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: news <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: checking for an object in a collection

2004-10-07 Thread Miranda & John Stager
Hello Muhammad, I hope that you are using custom tags for this. I would create a new custom tag to determine if the rule is present in the collection... display table x This tag would then look in the collection for the specific rule, not by iterating through the collection but by trying

Re: checking for an object in a collection

2004-10-07 Thread DGraham
Obviously, it's still too early for me.  A HashMap is what I meant to say. Dennis [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/07/2004 08:15 AM Please respond to "Struts Users Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To "Struts Users Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cc

Re: checking for an object in a collection

2004-10-08 Thread Muhammad Momin Rashid
Thank you for replying, I believe that your idea of using the hashMap is probably the best one. Is it possible for you to provide me some assistance with a sample jsp tag to accomplish this? e.g. lets say that I have a hashMap with rules x, y and z defined (where x, y and z are the keys. Whi