I figured it out. I was missing that you can iterate just a portion of a collection with nested:iterate (i.e., you can specify offset and length). This was the missing link.
Thanks anyway. J > -----Mensagem original----- > De: Vic Cekvenich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Enviada em: Monday, March 24, 2003 4:34 PM > Para: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Assunto: Re: RES: Paging a collection property > > > Struts is very smart about multi row update (and tag uses > indexed tag). But I have no idea how YOUR tag works, as far > is iterator, is per page > or over the collection. > > .V > > > > Jorge Mascena wrote: > > 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] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
