Re: options-Tag

[Ted Husted]

On 1/15/2001 at 11:28 PM Johann Dorn wrote: > Can anyone give me an example or some hints how the options-Tag must be used in conjunction with the ActionForm?   Sorry, got distracted, and I never actually did that.   So, starting with a working example of an ArrayList "options" bean in request scope, I setup a ArrayList property on the form, with the usual protected variable and standard getter/setter.   [ActionForm]   protected ArrayList salesYearsList = null;   public ArrayList getSalesYearsList() {     return (salesYearsList);   }   public void setSalesYearsList(ArrayList salesYearsList) {     this.salesYearsList = salesYearsList;   }   [Action]      salesForm.setSalesYearsList(salesYearsList);      if (salesYearsList != null) request.setAttribute("salesYears",salesYearsList); // still works   But I couldn't come up with a set of parameters that will work, or see how this is supported from the source code (but then, I'm a little dim ;-).   Anyway, starting with the working bean version,   <form:select property="year"> <form:options collection="salesYears" property="value" labelProperty="label"/> </form:select> here's what I tried   <form:select property="year"> <form:options property="salesYearsList"/> </form:select> // Servlet exception, ClassCast exception   <form:select property="year"> <form:options property="salesYearsList.value"/> </form:select> //No getter method available for property salesYearsList.value for bean under name null   <form:select property="year"> <form:options property="salesYearsList" labelName="value" labelProperty="label"/> </form:select> // Cannot find bean under name value   <form:select property="year"> <form:options property="salesYearsList" name="value" labelProperty="label"/> </form:select> // Cannot find bean under name value   <form:select property="year"> <form:options property="salesYearsList" name="value"/> </form:select> // Cannot find bean under name value   <form:select property="year"> <form:options property="salesYearsList" labelProperty="label"/> </form:select> // No getter method available for property label for bean under name null