Thanks for your response, I will get right on it... And ttry to figure
it out...
Have some questions though...
I get the idea of the listener, but if you populate it with stuff from a
database, this would be wrong I guess, since this collection never
updates (except when you restart you application). So what you do here
is to create a constant (based on stuff when the aplication starts)...
Or did I get i wrong?
If i'm not going to do the listner "thing", since my list must refresh
from database once and awile... Where do I put the Colloction creating
code, say this:
Collection coll = new ArrayList();
for(int i = 0; i < 10; i++) {
b = new LabelValueBean("1",1);
coll.add(b);
}
request.setAttribute("MY_LIST", coll);
And when I do this on my jsp-page:
<html:select property="selectedValue" value="-1">
<html:options collection="MY_LIST" property="value"
labelProperty="label" />
</html:select>
Do "value" and "label" represent a getValue() and getLabel() function in
LabelValueBean?
Thanks again for your response, cleared up alot in my head :D
/Jan
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Am Montag, 20. Oktober 2003 15:29 schrieb Jan Arenö:
> Hi
Hi Jan,
> I'm learning Struts at the moment and just finished a very easy
> example. Now when I want to extend it I don't know for sure where to
> put it, or if I have missunderstood something.
>
> I'm also new to taglibs. So i don't know exacly how they work either,
> but I think I start to get a hang of it
>
> I have inputpage with ActionForm and Action-servlets
There is only one ActionServlet. You surely mean Struts Actions?
> On my input page i have 2 fields at the moments, destination and type.
> These fields are validated and errormessages are returned as they
> should etc etc. When validated I go to page2.jsp that writes "Hello
> World"
>
> Ok. Heter is my problem.
> I now want to change my destination from a inputform <html:text> to a
> selectbox <html:select>. And I would like to populate it with a Vector
> that I shall get from a database.
First of all: Struts most elegantly supports this via the <html:options>
tag. You might also want to have a look at the <html:optionsCollection>
tag. Both are very flexible. The basic idea is that you populate your
select box with values coming from a Bean. The selected value then is
passed via the <html:select> property. The Collection itself can be put
in any scope (request, session, application). For static lists, as may
be your case as well, I usually use a Listener to put everything in
application scope when the app starts. Here comes an code snippet of a
very basic listener:
package listeners;
import java.util.*;
import javax.servlet.*;
import PersistenceFacade; // some Singleton DAO class that does the JDBC
part
public class ResourceListener implements ServletContextListener {
public void contextInitialized(ServletContextEvent e) {
Collection coll = PersistenceFacade.getInstance().getSomeList();
e.getServletContext().setAttribute("MY_LIST", coll);
}
public void contextDestroyed(ServletContextEvent e) {
((ServletContext)
e.getServletContext()).removeAttribute("MY_LIST");
}
The Collection itself is usually an ArrayList built from LabelValueBeans
(org.apache.struts.util) as follows
(note: code heavily simplified here for sake of brevity) -
your DAO that does the database access might
look like this somewhere (though I prefer the iBATIS
Database Layer recently, credits to Ted Husted who
pointed me there (www.ibatis.com)):
[..]
Collection coll = new ArrayList();
while (rs.next()) {
b = new LabelValueBean(rs.getString(<LABEL_COLUMN_NAME>),
rs.getString(<VALUE_COLUMN_NAME>));
coll.add(b);
}
return coll;
So you finally have your your list stored in some scope. Now, in the JSP
page, you can just put something like this:
<html:select property="selectedValue" value="-1">
<html:options collection="MY_LIST" property="value"
labelProperty="label" />
</html:select>
When the users selects something, it ends up in the 'selectedValue'
property of your ActionForm. You can specify a default value ("-1" in
this case) by setting the 'value' property of <html:select>.
> Earlier (before struts) I would create a bean conn. Then call :
>
> conn.createDBConnection();
If your server allows, don't use DriverManager anymore,
but make use of DataSources and use JNDI to locate
it. Some more code in this direction:
private DataSource getDataSource() {
DataSource ds = null;
try {
Context ctx = new InitialContext();
ds = (DataSource) ctx.lookup(Constants.SC_JNDI_DATASOURCE);
} catch (NamingException e) { log(e.getMessage()); }
return ds;
}
If you have luckily got a DataSource, it's easy to get
a Connection object from that:
private Connection getConnection() {
Connection conn = null;
try {
conn = getDataSource().getConnection();
if (conn != null) {
conn.setAutoCommit(false);
}
} catch (SQLException e) { log(e.getMessage()); }
return conn;
}
Then, it's business as usual.
> Vector myDest = conn.getDestinations(); conn.closeDBConnection();
>
> Where should I now do this? Where should I store the Vector?
No. Though it can be done, you should store the Vector (better not say
'Vector', as that is implementation-specific, but make use of interfaces
instead, and Vector implements the Collection
interface) apart from the form. You can use any scope you
like, request for 'per-incident' lists, session scope for each user
individually or application scope for all of them. Each 'scope' has a
setAttribute() method, so you're free to choose :-)
> In the ActionForm? I thought that it only had references to the fields
> that the user are supposed to submit. The Action class is not called
> until ActionForm is validated, ain't it so?
Exactly. The information *what* is in the list normally comes from
somewhere else. The value the user finally selects ends up as a property
in your ActionForm.
> How should this be done...
>
> Thanks for any help
HTH,
-- Chris (SCPJ2)
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