I'm not sure how you mean "nested" since there's a tag library called "struts-nested" and I'm not sure if you're referring to that. If you're using that, I think you may not need to, depending on the complexity of your form.
If you have only one dimension of arbitrary length, it's not really a "nested" situation, and you can try using the "indexed" property of the various html tags (such as html:text). You need to have an array of beans in your action form class with the appropriate get/set methods for each "column" in your list. The array corresponds to the set of request parameters sent from an array on the form that you populate using a logic:iterate block in the JSP. Struts will automatically figure out that the "customer[0].name" request parameter is the "name" property on the first customer bean in your customer bean array in the action form. Don't try it with Struts 1.0x, though, as "indexed" is a 1.1 feature... -----Original Message----- From: Howard Miller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, September 21, 2002 1:02 PM To: struts Users Mailing List Subject: Nested Indexed Property Hi, Sorry for repeating myself, but I think having read a lot more I can ask the question with a bit more "intelligence". To set the scene may I quote from the documentation: "You may also place a bean instance on your form, and use nested property references. For example, you might have a "customer" bean on your Action Form, and then refer to the property "customer.name" in your JSP view. This would correspond to the methods customer.getName() and customer.setName(string Name) on your customer bean" fine... BUT what if name is a property of an object in the LIST customer. So (working backwards) I want to create the reference: customer.get( i ).setName(string Name) (oversimplified I know). BUT it gets worse.... the index, i, is actually a property set on the previous JSP page... so its more like customer.get( reqest.getParameter( "index" ) ).setName(string Name ) ...and of course the form action needs to properly read the current values into the form text fields and then set them back into the correct place. I have no clue how to do this! Any offers? HM -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
