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  1. Struts and Dynamic Fields of a Form (5 messages)

    • Posted by: Majid Makki
    • Posted on: July 10 2004 06:06 EDT
    Hi all,
    There's a form in a struts based web-application in which some fields will be made according to some varable parameters. I mean number of those text type fields may vary from 2 to 100.
    Any idea for building ActionForm class such that fields of that formBean be set automatically (obviously after the form submitted)?

    Thanks
    Majid Makki
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  2. Struts and Dynamic Fields of a Form[ Go to top ]

    Have the attribute type as String[] in form class and use that attribute in the jsp, when you submit all the posted values will be assigned in your array attribute.

    Hope this helps,
    Senthil.
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  3. Struts and Dynamic Fields of a Form[ Go to top ]

    And what about relation between name of the text field in JSP and name of the String[] in the form class. I mean how they will be mapped?
    I think an example can make it clear for me.

    Thanks again
    Majid Makki
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  4. Struts and Dynamic Fields of a Form[ Go to top ]

    Basically if you have a same variable name and multiple values, http will send all values as name & value pairs. Struts will present those as String[] in your form class.

    For Example:

    <input type="text" name="varName" value="aaa" >
    <input type="text" name="varName" value="bbb" >
    <input type="text" name="varName" value="ccc" >

    In http,these values will be sent as varName=aaa&varName=bbb&varName=ccc. In your form class if you have a variable it will be populated.

    class MyForm extends ..... {

    private String varName[];

    public String[] getVarName() {}
    public void setVarName(String[] varName) {
       this.varName = varName;
    }
    }

    Here the getVarName() will return all values of the variable varName.

    Hope this helps,
    Senthil.
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  5. DynaActionForms[ Go to top ]

    You could use DynaActionForms

    http://www.reumann.net/do/struts/lesson3/step4
    http://www.developer.com/java/web/article.php/2214681
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  6. Re: Dynamic Forms[ Go to top ]

    I'm sorry in bothering you, but I'm new to Struts and I'm having this problem for many days without found any working solution (for me). I have Struts 1.1 (sigh, I must use this version) and I'm trying to get some multiple/dynamic file from a form (file's number depends on a field specified by users) as posted. When I reach the page all goes well, I can put the number of the file I want to upload, I can select the file but... when I press the submit botton I get an exception. Here is my code. The jsp page: 0){ for(int i=0; i<numSubreport; i++){ String propertyName = "file"; //String propertyName = "file["+i+"]"; %> : The bean for the form has this getter setter method (plus other for get/set other params) public int getNumFile() { return numFile; } public void setNumFile(int numFile) { this.numFile = numFile; file = new FormFile[this.numFile]; for(int i=0; i<this.numFile; i++){ file[i]=null; } } public FormFile[] getFile() { return file; } public void setFile(FormFile[] formFile) { file=formFile; } The Exception I get: javax.servlet.ServletException: BeanUtils.populate at org.apache.struts.util.RequestUtils.populate(RequestUtils.java:495) at org.apache.struts.action.RequestProcessor.processPopulate(RequestProcessor.java:816) at org.apache.struts.action.RequestProcessor.process(RequestProcessor.java:203) ... I found a similar problem also in ASF's bugzilla. It was marked as a non-bug (I have no doubt in this). If can help the id is 13075. Thanks in advance, Lisa
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