RE: collections in forms

[Drew Zimber]

thanks for the reply...i was busy doing something else but i will get back
to you tomorrow after some testing

dz

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Subject: RE: collections in forms


Hi,
If u are displaying the screen as text fields(using html:text tag),what ever
u
show on screen will be retained as all the data gets resubmitted back and
struts repopulates teh form again with the data.
But if u are showing a read only data on screen using bean:write tag,then
the
data will nto be retained as bean write tag does not include parameters in
request.So in this case if u want to retain the data, u should also use
html:hidden for each bean write u want to retain so that when the form is
submitted, the data is resent back.

I am giving some sample code...GO through it.Hope it helps.
********************************************************
//Form Class
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;

import org.apache.struts.action.ActionForm;

public class ExampleListForm extends ActionForm {

        //A list of Emp beans
        private List beanList = new ArrayList();

        public List getBeanList(){
                return beanList;
        }

        public void setBeanList(List list){
                beanList = list;
        }

        //very imp.
        //give indexed access to the beans
        public Employee getEmployee(int index){
                //very imp
                //when a jsp is submited , then while auto populating the form,this
will ensure that
                // teh fporm is populated properly.
                if(index >= beanList.size()){
                        beanList.add(new Employee());
                }
                return (Employee)beanList.get(index);
        }

        public void setEmployee(int index,Employee emp){
                beanList.set(index,emp);
        }
}
***********************************************
Bean class
public class Employee {

        private String name;

        private String salary;

        /**
         * Returns the name.
         * @return String
         */
        public String getName() {
                return name;
        }

        /**
         * Returns the salary.
         * @return String
         */
        public String getSalary() {
                return salary;
        }

        /**
         * Sets the name.
         * @param name The name to set
         */
        public void setName(String name) {
                this.name = name;
        }

        /**
         * Sets the salary.
         * @param salary The salary to set
         */
        public void setSalary(String salary) {
                this.salary = salary;
        }

}
****************************************
JSP
<%@ page language="java"%>
<%@ taglib uri="/WEB-INF/struts-html.tld" prefix="html" %>
<html:html>
        <html:form action="/" >
                <logic:iterate id="bean" name="exampleListForm" property="beanList"
indexId="i"/>
                        <html:text name="" property="<%=\"employee[\" + i 
\"].name\"%>">
                        <html:text name="" property="<%=\"employee[\" + i
\"].salary\"%>">
                </logic:iterate>
        </html:form>
</html:html>
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-----Original Message-----
From: drew.zimber [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2002 3:07 PM
To: struts-user
Subject: collections in forms



hey all...

i've used struts quite a bit now, but im not too well versed with
manipulating collections in form objects.  I had thought there was a way to
set up your forms/pages so that if you display a collection on screen and
submit back, the form in the least retains the collection in the action
class (an update would be nice too, but step by step i guess).

everytime i submit back to a form, the Collection comes back null.  Can
anyone give me some info/links/ideas on this so i dont have to rely on the
session so much?


thx!
dz


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