Eddie, Thank you for your reply
Regarding the data grid, header cells should work fine But I am talking about the real data Ex : If I am using a editable grid, I want to use < netui:textbox dataSource="container.item.xxxxxx - where xxxxx I want to use from the list of columns that got passed into the tag as attributes One more question on the datagrid All the datagrid urls are plain url's , not form posts When we want to use the dataGrid for editable grids, we need to post it. Basically, for all the sorting and paging we have to post the form. Is there any plan to provide this feature? Thank You -----Original Message----- From: Eddie O'Neil [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2006 9:36 PM To: Beehive Users Subject: Re: composite components using tag files Comments in line... On 4/11/06, Srinivas Surapaneni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am trying to build composite components from netui tags > [eko] It should be possible to build composite components from the NetUI tags. The only limitation that I'm aware of is that some NetUI JSP tags can't be split across a JSP and a .tag file because they use the method "findAncestorWithClass" which requires some JSP tags to be in a single JSP tag hierarchy. > > > Ex: There is no dual list component, calendar component in beehive [eko] True -- feel free to contribute one! :) > > I am trying to use the new JSP tag file mechanism to create a tag file which > contains all the components required for the dual list > > > > But I need to pass the select options for List 1 , List 2 and 2 datasources > to the tag as attributes > > [eko] The NetUI "dataSource" attribute is a little special as it's used to round-trip data into a page, to the browser, and back to the server on a POST. Usually, you'd only reference the "actionForm" implicit object from a "dataSource". For repeating tags like the data grid, you might reference many other things. The "netui-samples" web application provides some good examples of this, and documentation on the nuances of the "dataSource" attribute are described here: http://beehive.apache.org/docs/1.0.1/netui/databinding.html To pass the options to a select box, you'd use the "optionsDataSource" tag for the choices and use "dataSource" as the place data is stored when a JSP POSTs. The netui-samples/ webapp in the distribution has examples of this. > > > > But the datasource does not take runtime expressions. Is there any way to > use runtime expressions for netui components like textBox, select, checkbox > etc > [eko] On the dataSource attribute, this is (unfortunately) not possible because of limitations in the JSP 2.0 Expression Language, though the rest of the attributes should be runtime expressionable. > > > Other thing we are tryinh to create is reusable datagrid > > > > We want to create a list of column names in the pageflow scope and in the > reusable datagrid > > > > we want to use container.item.xxxxxxxx - where xxxxx comes from the column > list. > > > > Is there any easy way to do this? > > [eko] I don't know why this shouldn't work, but you'll need to use the appropriate JSTL tag to render all of the <netui-data:headerCell>s from inside of the <netui-data:header> tag. But, I've not tried it -- if you run into trouble with it, let me know. > > -- > No virus found in this outgoing message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.385 / Virus Database: 268.4.0/305 - Release Date: 4/8/2006 > > > -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.385 / Virus Database: 268.4.0/305 - Release Date: 4/8/2006 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.385 / Virus Database: 268.4.0/305 - Release Date: 4/8/2006
