What is this, some sort of Norwegian revolt?
--- On Thu, 12/11/08, Ronny Løvtangen <ro...@lovtangen.com> wrote:
> From: Ronny Løvtangen <ro...@lovtangen.com>
> Subject: Re: Nested-tag support
> To: "Struts Developers List" <dev@struts.apache.org>
> Date: Thursday, December 11, 2008, 5:18 PM
> On Dec 11, 2008, at 10:42 PM, Nils-Helge Garli Hegvik wrote:
>
> >>
> >> The s:form equivalent of the nested-example above
> should be something like:
> >>
> >> <s:form name="myForm">
> >> <s:push
> value="person.address">
> >> <s:textfield
> name="street"/>
> >> </s:push>
> >> </s:form>
> >>
> >
> > Wouldn't <s:textfield
> name="person.address.street"> to the trick?
>
>
> Yes, but what if you want to reuse code for the form fields
> for an address and include another jsp? Then you always have
> to be nested inside person.address, you cant reuse the code
> if you are inside lets say customer.address.
>
> When it really comes in handy is when you operate with
> collections.
> Take this example from Struts 1:
>
> <nested:nest property="foo">
> <nested:iterate property="bars">
> <nested:text property="baz"/>
> </nested:iterate>
> </nested:nest>
>
> to do the same ting in Struts 2 you have to write:
>
> <s:push value="foo">
> <s:iterator value="bars"
> status="status">
> <s:textfield
> name="foo.bars[%{#status.index}].baz" />
> </s:iterator>
> </s:push>
>
> With some changes to the Struts 2 codebase you could write
>
> <s:push value="foo">
> <s:iterator value="bars">
> <s:textfield name="baz" />
> </s:iterator>
> </s:push>
>
> Andreas and I have started to get the example above working
> on Struts 2. We have some working code, but not all details
> are figured out yet.
>
>
>
> --
> Ronny Løvtangen
> Senior Consultant - Net Professionals AS
> ro...@net-pro.no
> +47 928 21 901
> http://net-pro.no
> http://www.linkedin.com/in/ronnylovtangen
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