Sorry if I didn't explain the problem better. The pagination itself is ok (I've built a taglib that's equivalent to the one you pointed me).
My question is how I can bind the input fields generated by the html and/or nested tags to the underlying objects so that any change the user makes to the input fields will be reflected on the properties of the corresponding books (to use the same example from the original message). Say the user is on page 2 and each page has 10 books. He changes the title of the first book of the page and submits the form. I want to know if struts will be "smart" enough to update the title of the 11th book and not the 1st book of the collection of books of the author. If so, what do I have to do to accomplish that? Thanks Jorge Mascena > -----Mensagem original----- > De: Vic Cekvenich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Enviada em: Monday, March 24, 2003 3:22 PM > Para: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Assunto: Re: Paging a collection property > > > Look at "display tag" in google. > hth, .V > > Jorge Mascena wrote: > > I need some directions on how to use the struts html and/or neste > > taglibs to handle the case where there's a collection property of a > > form bean that may contain a big number of objects. In this > case, I'd > > like to able to do some sort of paging on these objects and > I'd like > > to know if struts have any support for that. > > > > For example: I have a form bean, AuthorFormBean, that has a > collection > > of books he wrote. I can use the nested taglib to render the book > > collection, so the user can fill the books data from the > same form he > > fills the rest of the data about the author. So far, so good. > > > > The problem (or question) is: what if the number of books > gets too big > > and I want to split these books into pages (and have a > navigator for > > those pages), but they still belong to the same form bean, so no > > matter which page the user is, the nested tags (<nested:text>, for > > example) will know the correct index of the objects we're talking > > about (if we're on page 2 and each page has 10 books, the > nested tags > > will start getting the objects from index 9 and not 0, and > so on) and > > properly populates the input fields and updates the corresponding > > objects when loading and submiting the form respectively. > > > > I know how to do it directly with pure html code, but I'd > like to know > > if it would be possible to get some advantage on using > struts for this > > matter. > > > > I hope I could make myself clear. > > > > Thanks for any help. > > > > Jorge Mascena > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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]
