You could also think of using a component, which would help to avoid writing
a tag with tld generation and all that:
http://struts.apache.org/2.0.11.1/docs/component.html
Sparecreative wrote:
>
> Thanks Laurie,
>
> I actually thought of a tag file but thought it might be the lazy way out.
> We actually use them extensively for dropping in html components.
>
> I feel a lot better now.
>
> Thanks
>
> Z.
>>
>> Zoran Avtarovski wrote:
>>> > Hi,
>>> >
>>> > We porting/upgrading a relatively simple survey tool over to struts2
>>> from
>>> an
>>> > old php version.
>>> >
>>> > The tool manages questions which can one of a fixed type (radio, drop,
>>> > checkbox, text) and then persists responses to DB.
>>> > Where I need some advice is how to implement the struts 2 display
>>> mechanism..
>>> >
>>> > I figure there are two options:
>>> >
>>> > 1. Write a custom tag which takes the question as an attribute.
>>> Something
>>> > like <s:question value=²%{question}² />
>>
>> Well, it wouldn't be s:question unless you're planning on modifying the
>> Struts taglib ;=) but a custom tag would be one way to do this. Using a
>> .tag file might be the easiest, depending how complex your rendering
>> logic is.
>>
>>> > 2. I could have a small jsp fragment that I would include to render
>>> the
>>> > appropriate html.
>>> >
>>> > I figured I¹d do something like :
>>> >
>>> > <s:iterator value=²questions² id=²question²>
>>> > <s:push value=²%{question}²>
>>> > <s:include value=²pagefragment.jspf²/>
>>> > </s:push>
>>> > </s:iterator>
>>
>> The tag-based solution is obviously more concise to use, although the
>> s:push is unnecessary here (s:iterator pushes the value automatically).
>>
>>> > And pagefragment.jspf would have some logic and use the appropriate
>>> form
>>> > tags to render the HTML.
>>
>> If you can express what you want to do in a JSP, it should be trivial to
>> do it in a .tag file, which would give you the more concise usage.
>> Otherwise, a custom tag may be worth it.
>>
>> L.
>>
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