OK, while we're on the subject... Is there any intent to support the format/formatKey attributes that work with the bean.write tag? It would be really nice to be able to format date and numeric attributes of my bean without having to write a decorator.
Scott -----Original Message----- From: James CE Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2003 3:25 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [displaytag-user] Life without decorators Hi, I've just started using the display:* taglib so forgive me if this has been covered elsewhere and I failed to find it. I grok the idea of decorators and I think they're a wonderful idea but for my needs I think it is too much. Plus the fact that I really don't like the idea of embedding html in my java classes... What I would very much like to do is something like this: <display:table width="75%" name="reportList"> <display:column> <html:link page="/report/download.do" paramId="oid" paramName="report" paramProperty="oid" paramScope="Page"> <bean:write name="report" property="name"/> </html:link> </display:column> Where the <html:link...> stuff is leveraging the struts framework to figure out the correct URLs and so forth. My current solution is this: <display:table width="75%" name="reportList" decorator="com...UploadedReportWrapperDecorator"> <display:column property="actionLinks" title=""/> Where the decorator has the following methods: public String getDeleteLink() { UploadedReportWrapper data = (UploadedReportWrapper) this.getObject(); return "<a href=\"javascript:removeReport('" + data.getOid() + "')\">[delete]</a>"; } public String getDownloadLink() { UploadedReportWrapper data = (UploadedReportWrapper) this.getObject(); return "<a href=\"javascript:downloadReport('" + data.getOid() + "')\">[download]</a>"; } public String getActionLinks() { return this.getDeleteLink() + this.getDownloadLink(); } Now when my content expert comes along to replace [edit] and [download] he's going to have to get into the java code and he nor I wants that to happen. So... Is there a way to include a column in a row of the generated table where that column's data doesn't come (directly) from the iteration instance? Thanks, J ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by:Crypto Challenge is now open! Get cracking and register here for some mind boggling fun and the chance of winning an Apple iPod: http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?thaw0031en _______________________________________________ displaytag-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/displaytag-user ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by:Crypto Challenge is now open! Get cracking and register here for some mind boggling fun and the chance of winning an Apple iPod: http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?thaw0031en _______________________________________________ displaytag-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/displaytag-user
