I use layouts to get around this problem as well. I simply have the name or id (whichever you need) be driven from a jsp value. My fields end up looking like this:
<s:layout-definition>
<s:form partial='true' beanclass='${actionClass}'>
<s:text name="${baseName}.someproperty"/>
</s:form>
</s:layout-definition>
For rendering them it's as simple as:
<s:form beanclass="someClass.here">
<s:layout-component name="/WEB-INF/jsp/components/fields.jsp"
baseName="mainPropertyName" actionClass='${actionBean.class}'/>
</s:form>
Of course this is most useful for bunching a lot of fields together like you
said, but this is the general idea. It works because layouts pass any 'extra'
attributes you pass in on the tag gets set to a page scope parameter.
Hope this helps!
On Feb 4, 2010, at 3:25 PM, farouk alhassan wrote:
> Thanks All.
> I understand that stripes is an action based framework and if I want a
> component based one, I should look for JSF/Seam/or sth like that.
>
> However, I am increasingly duplicating my form fields in a lot of places and
> just changing the name and id attributes.
> I therefore need to define my form feilds in some way that I can reuse them.
> I was thinking there is a framework somehere that I can use.
>
> The nested Layouts have helped me so far maintain consistency in the site
> layout without a lot of trouble but duplicating the form feild is making me
> worried as I know it will be a problem if I have to change the styles or
> design of the site.
>
> Thank you
>
> Regards
>
> --- On Thu, 4/2/10, Oscar Westra van Holthe - Kind <kin...@xs4all.nl> wrote:
>
> From: Oscar Westra van Holthe - Kind <kin...@xs4all.nl>
> Subject: Re: [Stripes-users] Stripes and Components
> To: "Stripes Users List" <stripes-users@lists.sourceforge.net>
> Date: Thursday, 4 February, 2010, 20:07
>
> On 04-02-2010 at 11:47, farouk alhassan wrote:
> > Is it possible to use a component rendering framework with stripes so I
> > can reuse predefined components?
>
> In short: yes.
>
> Longer answer: You're combining an action based framework (Stripes) with a
> component rendering framework. This means you should know what request
> attributes the component framework requires to render the components, and what
> the resulting input form fields (and resulting request parameters) will be.
> Knowing this, you can let it play nice with Stripes.
>
>
> Oscar
>
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