> 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
Well, the keys end up being stored in the DB, in another table from the source of the keys, as ad-hoc field names. You know at a glance the context of a stored value. It also makes it easy for reporting. I can use the DB surrogate key of the source of the dynamic field, but then when I store the values I have a N+1 type query to get the field names or I have to get all of the keys and then find them in a List or Map object for each form field so that I have the label value to store in the final table. That's a lot of extra work, which is why it isn't desirable. Ultimately, I guess this will be what I have to do since this doesn't work. Do we call this a bug?
