My first guess would be that OGNL is trying to evaluate it, although
since it's a string, not sure that makes any sense.
I don't know how your DB is laid out or how what sounds like ad-hoc
structures are being created, but is a text ID really the only thing
you have available?
Dave
On Thursday, July 7, 2011, Eric Lentz <eric.le...@sherwin.com> wrote:
> I'm using Struts 2.2.1.
>
> I have a use case whereby form fields are generated dynamically and some
> of them are select lists. Since it is a database driven list of fields,
> the labels presented for the user are also used as keys for the map that
> the form posts back to. Using alternate keys is not desirable.
>
> That's brief background to attempt at justification for what I'm doing. To
> provide a simple example, this is the equivalent to one of the select
> lists that gets created:
> <s:select list="#{'Interior':'Interior','Exterior':'Exterior'}"
> name='foo["Interior/Exterior"]'
> headerKey="-1"
> headerValue="Select One" />
>
> Interior/Exterior, as a key, seems to be an issue. Using that on a test
> form and a test action that has the following:
>
> if(foo == null) {
> bar = "Foo is null";
> }
> else if(foo.containsKey("Interior/Exterior")) {
> bar = foo.get("Interior/Exterior");
> }
> else {
> bar = "Not Found";
> }
>
> bar always gets assigned "Foo is null".
>
> Any ideas why the "/" character contained in a key would make it invalid?
> I tested using that exact key in a map and Java is fine with it. Since foo
> is null, it appears to not be passed at all. I tried various escaping
> (e.g., "\/"), but it still comes back null when "/" is in the key.
>
> The page, action and configuration I used to test this is here:
> http://www.chopapp.com/#32ycxelq
>
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