You can accomplish all of this with tags and elimate your scriptlets. I have something close to that, let me know if you want an example.
-- James Mitchell Web Developer/Struts Evangelist http://jakarta.apache.org/struts/ "People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid." - Soren Aabye Kierkegaard (1813-1855) > -----Original Message----- > From: John Devine [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2003 1:52 PM > To: 'Struts Users Mailing List' > Subject: RE: Accepting arrays as values in mapped-backed ActionForms > > > Hello Struts community! > > No one's picked up on this thread and I just wonder whether it's a > stupid or unclear question or whether it's just not of interest. > > If the question's been answered before, could someone let me know and > I'll go back to searching lists. I didn't find any answers earlier. > > Basically what I'm trying to is set up a form that will > contain a Map of > String arrays. At this point, when Struts populates the Map, > it assumes > the map elements will be plain strings. Does anyone know of a way to > tell it that the members of the map should be populated as arrays > (because multiple request parameters will have the same name). > > Thanks in advance for any response, > > John Devine > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: John Devine [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, March 03, 2003 5:10 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Accepting arrays as values in mapped-backed ActionForms > > Does anyone know how to specify that the value of the HashMap in a > mapped-backed ActionForm should be an array of Strings rather > than just > a single String? > > I'm having a problem in trying to set up a page of several rows of > indexed multi-boxes: > > I have a regular action form that includes: > > public Map existingGroups = new HashMap(); > > public Map getExistingGroups(){ > return existingGroups; > } > > public void setExistingGroups(Map map){ > this.existingGroups = map; > } > > On my JSP, I include several different rows of multiboxes, and I want > the user to be able to choose different groups for each object: > > <% > List storyList = searchBean.getList(); > int counter = 1; > for (Iterator i = storyList.iterator(); i.hasNext(); counter++ ) { > Story story = (Story)i.next(); > pageContext.setAttribute("story", story); > pageContext.setAttribute("counter", new Integer(counter)); > %> > > <tr> > <td> > <bean:write name="story" property="title" /> > </td> > <logic:iterate id="group" name="submitToGroupForm" > property="availableGroups" type="com.rd.Group" > > <td> > <html:multibox > property='<%="existingGroups("+story.getId()+")"%>' > > <bean:write name="group" property="id" /> > </html:multibox> > <bean:write name="group" property="name" /> > </td> > </logic:iterate> > </tr> > > <% } %> > > (Oh, and I use the scriptlet iteration because there's a tile being > called within that loop that I edited out for readability.) > > What happens is that value of "existingGroups(primaryKey1)" > is a String > instead of an array of Strings. So that if I try to cast it > to String[], > I get a ClassCastException. > > Is this a limitation of using maps in forms, or is there a > way to return > arrays of strings as entries of the Map on your ActionForm? > > Thanks, > > John > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
