Thank you for the quick response Avlesh!
Again, I'm somewhat new to Struts, so I'm not sure I understand your
suggestion. Is there a taglib out there that handles this sort of
thing? Or are you suggesting writing a custom taglib?
Regards,
Anthony Frasso
On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 23:22, Avlesh Singh<avl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Never thought of using a taglib?
>
> Cheers
> Avlesh
>
> On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 8:49 AM, Anthony Frasso <a...@cornell.edu> wrote:
>
>> Hello all, and thank you in advance.
>>
>> I'm relatively new to struts 2, as I started working with the
>> framework about 6 months ago on a part time basis. I'm struggling to
>> solve a problem that I would think would be fairly common: displaying
>> a tree within a JSP.
>>
>> Essentially, I have an object (let's call it "Item") that looks
>> something like the following:
>>
>> class Item {
>>
>> private String name;
>> private Set<Item> children;
>>
>> // getters and setters
>> }
>>
>> Working within a JSP page, I want to display the data within this Item
>> as follows:
>>
>> <ul>
>> <li>
>> <s:property value="item.name"/>
>> <s:iterator value="item.children" var="child">
>> <ul>
>> <li>
>> <s:property value="child.name"/>
>> <s:iterator value="child.children" var="grandchild">
>> <ul>
>> <li>
>> <s:property value="grandchild.name"/>
>> <s:iterator value="grandchild.child" var
>> "greatgrandchild">
>> ... and so on
>> </s:iterator>
>> </li>
>> </ul>
>> </s:iterator>
>> </li>
>> </ul>
>> </s:iterator>
>> </li>
>> </ul>
>>
>> Ideally, I would be able to display this data using some sort of
>> recursion, since there's really no way to tell how deep this tree is.
>> If anyone knows of a good solution to this problem, I'd be very
>> interested in hearing it.
>>
>> I did come up with what I thought might be a solution using the
>> <s:include> tag. I came up with the following:
>>
>> In the main jsp page, I have:
>>
>> <ul>
>> <li>
>> <s:include value="inc/displayItem.jsp">
>> <s:param name="item" value="item"/>
>> </s:include>
>> </li>
>> </ul>
>>
>> In the included jsp page, I have:
>>
>> <s:property value="item.name"/>
>> <s:iterator value="item.children" var="child">
>> <ul>
>> <li>
>> <s:include value="inc/displayItem.jsp">
>> <s:param name="item" value="child"/>
>> </s:include>
>> </li>
>> </ul>
>> </s:iterator>
>>
>> This does not work, of course, because a parameter from within an
>> included jsp page can only be referenced like this: {$param.item}. In
>> addition, I can't use that method to access the included parameter
>> within any struts 2 tags (as far as I can tell).
>>
>> So again, I suppose my question is: is this an appropriate way of
>> solving this problem? If so, how can I get this all to work? If not,
>> what's a better way of going about this?
>>
>> Thanks again for all of your help,
>> Anthony Frasso
>> a...@cornell.edu
>>
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