> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrew Close [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 2004 11:53 AM
> To: Struts Users Mailing List
> Subject: Re: More fun with forms...
>
>
> <snip>
>
> > > i do know what fields will be returned, just not how many. so i
> > > wasn't sure if i could use ActionForms or if i had to
> come up with a
> > > custom solution.
> > > i'll see if i can find info on MapBackedForm.
> > > Thanks Jim
> >
> > Oh, you mean rows, not columns. In that case you want a
> list of objects, where >each object is a row. You grab each
> field from the resultSet, stuff it into a bean, >and then
> stuff the bean into a collection. Then you put the
> collection in the >scope of your choice.
>
> well, yes. that's the first part of it. getting the data from the DB
> to the page to be displayed. so i have my collection. now i'm going
> to iterate thorugh the collection and build a form:
>
>
> //JSP...
> <html:form action=someaction>
> <table>
<logic:iterate name="AFormNameThatMakesSense" property="bunchOStuff"
id="oneOfABunchOStuff"
<html:text name="oneOfABunchOStuff" indexed="true"/>
</logic:iterate>
public class MyForm blah blah {
private String[] element;
private Collection bunchOStuff; //you can also put this into your favorite
scope
...
appropriate getter and setters
}
>
> for (int i =0; i<collection.size; i++) {
> <tr>
> //some tds...
> <td><html:text property=dynamicField[i] /> //my editable field
> </tr>
> }
> </table>
> <html:submit ... />
> </html:form>
>
> so now i have a form being displayed with let's say 25 rows in it.
> that's 25 editable textfields (assume they have unique id's or
> something).
> now my user views this, makes a couple of changes to some of the
> editable textfields and hits submit. the action receives the call and
> begins to process the form. BUT, how is the ActionForm or
> DynaActionForm laid out so the Action can grab all the fields off of
> it since we didn't know there would be 25 editable textboxes when we
> started?
>
> <form-beans>
> <form-bean name=dynamicForm type=...DynaActionForm>
>
> how do i denote my 'X' editable fields here?
>
> <form-property name=dynamicallyGeneratedFileds
> type=java.lang.String[] />
>
> would that be what i want?
>
> </form-bean>
> </form-beans>
>
>
> Thanks again,
> andy
>
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