I can't tell you why the parameters are being passed out-of-sequence (I would guess they're being shuffled through a HashMap somewhere) but it's easy to deal with: simply have your setter grow the list as necessary to accommodate the passed index. Something like this:

    public void setFriend(int index, String name) {
        while (friends.size() < index) {
            friends.add(null); // or "" or whatever
        }
        friends.put(index, name);
    }

HTH,

L.

venkat reddy wrote:
I've tried another example also.......

ListForm.java
=========
package com.myapp.struts.formbeans;
import org.apache.struts.action.*;
import javax.servlet.http.*;
import java.util.*;
/**
 *
 * @author Sai
 */
public class ListForm extends ActionForm {


    private int size = 3;
    private List friends = new ArrayList(size);

    public List getFriends( ) {
        return friends;
    }

    public String getFriend(int index) {
        if (index >= friends.size(  )) {
            friends.add(index, new String());
        }
        return (String) friends.get(index);
    }

    public void setFriend(int index, String name) {
        System.out.println("size: "+friends.size()+"----- index:"+index);
    }

    public void reset(ActionMapping mapping, HttpServletRequest request) {
        // prepopulate the list with empty strings
        friends = new ArrayList( );
        for (int i=0; i<size;i++) friends.add("");
    }


}

pollsForm2.jsp
==============
<h2>List Form Test</h2>
        <html:form action="/multipleForm" method="get">
            Who are your 3 friends:<br />
            Friend 1: <html:text property="friend[0]"/><br />
            Friend 2: <html:text property="friend[1]"/><br />
            Friend 3: <html:text property="friend[2]"/><br />
            Friend 3: <html:text property="friend[3]"/><br />
            Friend 3: <html:text property="friend[4]"/><br />
            Friend 3: <html:text property="friend[5]"/><br />
            Friend 3: <html:text property="friend[6]"/><br />
            Friend 3: <html:text property="friend[7]"/><br />
            <html:submit/>
        </html:form>

The output while setting the request parameter values is as follows......
size: 3----- index:0
size: 3----- index:4
size: 3----- index:3
size: 3----- index:6
size: 3----- index:7
size: 3----- index:5
size: 3----- index:1
size: 3----- index:2

We can see here also struts is not settings the parameter values in order (
i mean according to the index ). It's trying to set object at 0 index,
jumping by trying to set at 4 index.

Why is this so??........is this problem solved in struts 1.2.9 ( i'm
currently using 1.2.7) ??

Any personal suggestions are also appreciated..........

Friends, please help


On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 1:30 AM, venkat reddy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

I wanted to find a way to handle dynamic number of arguments for my
poll-posting form which should be able to handle dynamic number of choice
fields.

So i maintained a list (pollChoices --> java.util.List type) for
maintaining dynamic number of choice fields.

==============================
                   PollForm.java
==============================

package com.myapp.struts.formbeans;
import org.apache.struts.action.*;
import javax.servlet.http.*;
import java.util.*;
import org.apache.commons.lang.*;
/**
 *
 * @author Sai
 */
public class PollForm extends ActionForm {

    private String pollQuestion;
    private String numberOfDays;
    private ArrayList pollChoices;

    /** Creates a new instance of BasicForm */
    public PollForm() {
    }

    public void reset(ActionMapping map, HttpServletRequest req) {
        System.out.println("Reset start...........");
        setPollQuestion("");
        setNumberOfDays("");
        pollChoices = new ArrayList();
        System.out.println("Reset end...........");
    }
    public ActionErrors validate(ActionMapping map, HttpServletRequest req)
{

        System.out.println("Validate method...........");
        ActionErrors errors = new ActionErrors();

        if(StringUtils.isBlank(pollQuestion))
            errors.add("pollQuestion",new
ActionMessage("errors.required","Poll Question"));
        if(StringUtils.isBlank(numberOfDays))
            errors.add("numberOfDays",new
ActionMessage("errors.required","Number of days"));
        if(pollChoices.size() < 2)
            errors.add("pollChoice",new
ActionMessage("errors.required","Atleast two poll choices"));
        return errors;
    }

    public String getPollQuestion() {
        return pollQuestion;
    }

    public void setPollQuestion(String pollQuestion) {
        this.pollQuestion = pollQuestion;
    }

    public String getNumberOfDays() {
        return numberOfDays;
    }

    public void setNumberOfDays(String numberOfDays) {
        this.numberOfDays = numberOfDays;
    }

    public String getPollChoice(int index) {

        if(index >= pollChoices.size()) {
            pollChoices.add(index,new String());
        }
        return (String) pollChoices.get(index);

    }

    public void setPollChoice(int index,String choice) {
        System.out.println("size: "+pollChoices.size()+"-----
index:"+index);

        if(index < pollChoices.size())
            pollChoices.set(index,choice);
        else
            pollChoices.add(index,choice);

    }

}



===============================================================================

The html-form looks like below

<html:form method="get" action="/multipleForm">
            <html:text property="pollQuestion" /><br/><br/>
            <html:text property="numberOfDays" /><br/><br/>
            <html:text property="pollChoice[0]" /><br/><br/>
            <html:text property="pollChoice[1]" /><br/><br/>
            <html:text property="pollChoice[2]" /><br/><br/>
            <html:text property="pollChoice[3]" /><br/><br/>
            <html:text property="pollChoice[4]" /><br/><br/>
            <html:text property="pollChoice[5]" /><br/><br/>
            <html:text property="pollChoice[6]" /><br/><br/>
            <html:text property="pollChoice[7]" /><br/><br/>
            <html:submit />
</html:form>

=================================================
I'm using struts 1.2.7

Now the problem is when struts populates my pollChoice fields using
bean-utils setIndexedProperty method it's setting is starting from index 2.
I mean this is the output when i ran my program.

Reset start...........
Reset end...........
size: 0----- index:2
size: 0----- index:3
size: 0----- index:1
size: 0----- index:0
size: 0----- index:7
size: 0----- index:6
size: 0----- index:4
size: 0----- index:5
Validate method...........


Note: I've provided, System.out.println("size: "+pollChoices.size()+"-----
index:"+index); inside my PollForm.java to see how struts sets my form.


As i said i'm getting an error, that's because the size is 0 and the index
it's trying to set is greater than that.




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