Hello everyone, I'm trying to display a list of items in a collection using JSTL.
Each item in the collection has x, y, z and id variables. The user can choose whether he wants the display order (of the items in the collection) to be 1) x y z 2) z y x As far as I know the display ordering can be accomplished in two ways: 1) as shown in the code snippet below, create two different loops for each display format. The drawback with this approach is that a lot of the common stuff is duplicated between the two loops. 2) Have a c:choose , selection within a single loop, which decides between the two formats. The drawback is that the the same condition checking repeats for each loop iteration. Is there a way to set the formatting outside the loop , and use that format in the loop to address the two drawbacks above. <%@ page contentType="text/html;charset=UTF-8" language="java" %> <%@ taglib prefix="c" uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core"; %> <html> <head> <title></title> </head> <body> <c:choose> <c:when test="${param.listBy == 'xFirst' }"> <c:forEach var="item" items="${requestScope.items}"> ${item.x} ${item.y} ${item.z} <a href="/show?id=${item.id}">show item</a> <a href="/edit?id=${item.id}">edit item</a> <a href="/delete?id=${item.id}">delete item</a> </c:forEach> </c:when> <c:otherwise> <c:forEach var="item" items="${requestScope.items}"> ${item.z} ${item.y} ${item.x} <a href="/show?id=${item.id}">show item</a> <a href="/edit?id=${item.id}">edit item</a> <a href="/delete?id=${item.id}">delete item</a> </c:forEach> </c:otherwise> </c:choose> </body> </html> Any input is appreciated. -Rashmi --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: taglibs-user-unsubscr...@jakarta.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: taglibs-user-h...@jakarta.apache.org
