Ya, I kind of phrased it poorly. I had been doing this with a bunch of servlets that called request.getParameter in a loop. In that situation, I had a bunch of form parameters like this: Zoo1Animal1 Zoo1Animal2 Zoo1Animal3 Zoo2Animal1 Zoo2Animal2 But I want to switch over to JSP (and struts) to clean things up a bit. I was looking for the best way to get these into a bean (since a simple setProperty * doesn't do this kind of stuff) and I didn't want to define fields in the bean like "Zoo1Animal1" because that seems really dirty to me. I don't think the whole "iterate" thing is relevant...isn't that just for output? The way that I believe I have found to be best (I haven't tested it yet and it's fairly undocumented) is to create a bean with an array of different beans property such as "AnimalForm[] Zoos" and then in the other bean (AnimalForm) have an array of strings property such as "String[] Animals". Then, I set up my jsp page to have form inputs such as: <form:text property="zoos[1].animal[1]"> Does this sound reasonable? Will it work? thanks, eric. On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 07:33:33PM -0500, Gigen Thomas wrote: > Hi There, > > I am not really sure that I understood ur question. Anyway.... > Well if its a bunch of values that you want to store and want to iterate > through these values , you can have a Collection within ur Bean and then > have get and set methods to access this Collection. > > Regards, > Gigen > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Monday, November 06, 2000 3:06 AM > Subject: iterative (list-type) form parameters > > > > I haven't been able to find a good solution for this > > anywhere...someone must do something decently elegant... > > > > Many of the forms that I have have parameters that repeat iteratively > > (lists of things) like "Param1, Param2, ..." > > > > What is the best way to get these into a bean? I hate to define a > > bunch of properties in the bean for a fixed number of them... I know > > I could use the array type of property in the bean, but is there a way > > to get the parameters in there easily? What about parameters that are > > multiply iterative like "Param1Sub1, Param1Sub2, Param2Sub1, > > Param2Sub2, ..."? > > > > Any ideas? > > > -- _____ _ | ____|(_) http://www.iit.edu/~jenseri | _| | | Page me via ICQ at | |___ | | http://wwp.mirabilis.com/19022931 |______/ | or by mailing [EMAIL PROTECTED] |__/
