John, sorry for not getting back sooner. I've been in meetings since lunch. I'll see what I can work up tonight.
-- 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 2:41 PM > To: 'Struts Users Mailing List' > Subject: RE: Accepting arrays as values in mapped-backed ActionForms > > > Sure I'd love to see an example! > > But like I said, I ended up using the scriptlets for iteration because > within the iteration of "storyList" I call a tile like so: > > <td> > <tile:insert page="/WEB-INF/tilestemplates/storyDetailwithBlurb.jsp" > > <tile:put name="story" beanName="story" /> > <tile:put name="counter" beanName="counter" /> > </tile:insert> > </td> > > and I couldn't get the tile to be called properly when it was > within an > <logic:iterate> tag. (and I haven't boned up on the nested tags enough > to be comfortable with them yet). > > If you have an example of naming the property of the multibox > to accept > a set of options for each story in the iteration, that's where my real > problem lies right now. The way I have it now works fine for > <html:text> > and single parameter inputs, but I can't get it to work for multiple > parameter inputs. > > Thanks, > > John > > > -----Original Message----- > From: James Mitchell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2003 1:28 PM > To: 'Struts Users Mailing List' > Subject: RE: Accepting arrays as values in mapped-backed ActionForms > > 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] > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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]
