Okay... But a drop down menu is screen data. And a list of companies is something that will be used more than once.
So I have a normal class in my model layer ListCompanies In my UserAction (ListCompanies).getCompanies(); But this Action's primary job is to return a list of users (which it does). As the list is screen data i should be defining this in my form bean? This is something thats being confusing me for weeks. If i've a bunch of collections how can i make them available to iterate tags and select menus, without using useBean (sorry silly design constraint, but beyond my control). Hopefully I'm just being silly, i could really do with some pointers as where i'm missing the point. Cheers mark On 13-12-2002 11:49, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Also i dont understand why u need to access the request directly.I mean why > are > u setting all the collections as request attributes.GEnerally I think the good > design is when u r FormBEan represents the screen data.So in this case > whatever > u need on screen will become attribute of form. > I know it does not make much difference in implemantation but as a design it > becomes pretty straight forward.I mean for an action , if u just look at the > form, u know what is being displayed.So u just populate the form in action. > > Any comments... :-)) > > > -----Original Message----- > From: VEDRE [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, December 13, 2002 11:44 AM > To: struts-user > Cc: VEDRE > Subject: RE: OptionsCollection > > > You can either use attribute collection="users" for options tag if you store > in request > or you can use name="formName" property="myList" if you have > a getMyList() method for the form(You have to fill call formName.setMyList() > in your action class before forwarding to a jsp). > > > checkout http://jakarta.apache.org/struts/userGuide/struts-html.html#options > if you have not looked at the documentation. > > -rana. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Mark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, December 13, 2002 5:36 AM > To: Struts Users Mailing List > Subject: OptionsCollection > > > Hello > > I've a number of collections already defined that end up being passed to my > jsp's via the request object. > > Users in this case is a map defined in my business logic class that does db > queries. > > users = (ListUsers).getUsers(); > > request.setAttribute("users",users); > > > I itertate through this collection using iterate. But now i want to use this > in a select menu. > > Should I be thinking about making my collection available to my FormBean i.e > making a getMyList() method. > > Thanks in advance > > mark > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
