Chris,
What sort of errors are you getting?
Below is a reprint of a message I posted a few weeks ago. I believe it
addresses a similar question.
Princeton
Re: html:options not understanding collections from form beans?
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From: Princeton Lau
Subject: Re: html:options not understanding collections from form beans?
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 10:14:38 -0700
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Hello,
I struggled with the options tag because I did not understand what it meant
by 'collection'. I could not pass a collection along with a request because
I was at my index page. In other words, nothing had been done yet.
I instantiated the bean that had the collection and then used a <bean:define
.../> to make the collection visible to the options tag.
This is a sample define statement for a bean named Cost, with an ArrayList
(an array of costCentre objects) called costCentres.
<bean:define id="CostList" name="Cost" property="costCentres"/>
I then reference it in my form via:
.
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.
<html:select property="costCentre" size="0">
<html:options collection="CostList" property="value"
labelProperty="label"/>
</html:select>
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I hope this helps.
Princeton
-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Heinemann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2001 1:23 PM
To: Struts User Group
Subject: HTML:OPTIONS
I have a collection of java.lang.String objects. How do I get the
html:options tag to output them?
My code is :
<%
Collection c = reportBuilder.getAvailableStartDates();
pageContext.setAttribute("availStartDates",c);
%>
<html:form action="updateReport.do" name='reportBuilder'
type='ReportBuilderActionForm' scope='session' >
<html:select property='startWeek' name='reportBuilder' multiple='false'
value='<%=reportBuilder.getStartWeek()%>' >
<%
try{
//I know this is where things are breaking.... I have tried serval
variations to no avail
%>
<html:options collection='availStartDates' />
<%}catch (Exception h){
h.printStackTrace(); //because things don't work... this might give a
clue :(
}
%>
</html:select>
</html:form>
Thanks,
Chris Heinemann
