Niall,
Your approach is simpler. However, I believe a lot of legacy code would
break if that kind of change were to be made. I think a separate property
name is warranted here.
- jeff
----- Original Message -----
From: "Niall Pemberton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2001 7:58 PM
Subject: RE: Struts 1.0 Released - Looking forward to 1.1!!!!!!!
> Martin,
>
> Ideally I would like Struts html tags (text, checkbox, hidden etc.) to
> automatically generate the "name" with the subscript if its embedded in an
> IterateTag so that iterated beans are automatically updated by Struts.
>
> For example:
>
> <logic:iterate id="list" name="formExample" property="beanArray">
> <tr><td><html:text name="list" property="desc"/></td>
> </logic:iterate>
>
> generates:
> <input type="text" name="beanArray[0].desc" value=".."/>
> <input type="text" name="beanArray[1].desc" value=".."/>
> <input type="text" name="beanArray[2].desc" value=".."/> etc. etc.
>
> I realise you can do this with the indexId scripting variable, but this is
> simpler. I raised it before (prior to indexId and getIndex method) in the
> following messages:
>
> http://www.mail-archive.com/struts-user@jakarta.apache.org/msg05231.html
> http://www.mail-archive.com/struts-dev@jakarta.apache.org/msg00975.html
>
> What do you think?
>
> Niall
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Martin Cooper [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: 19 June 2001 05:28
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: Struts 1.0 Released - Looking forward to 1.1!!!!!!!
> >
> >
> > Niall,
> >
> > Regarding "auto-generating a subscript", what do you have in mind? The
> > indexId attribute was added to the iterate tag recently (just
> > before Struts
> > 1.0) so that a scripting variable can be created containing the
> > value of the
> > current index. However, from the description in the TODO list,
> > I'm not sure
> > if that's the same thing or not.
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > --
> > Martin Cooper
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Niall Pemberton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Monday, June 18, 2001 6:46 PM
> > Subject: Struts 1.0 Released - Looking forward to 1.1!!!!!!!
> >
> >
> > > Congratulations and thank you for Struts 1.0 - a great product.
> > >
> > > Now I know you guys deserve a well earned rest now Struts 1.0
> > is released,
> > > but what sort of timescale do you envisage work starting on 1.1?
> > >
> > > I am particularly interested for starters in:
> > >
> > > 1) ActionForms with dynamic properties.
> > > 2) If/Else and Switch/Case tags (I submitted tags which do this
> > to the dev
> > > list a while ago).
> > > 3) Improved Iteration Support - auto-generating a subscript.
> > >
> > > These areas are currently unassigned on the ToDo list and
> > presumably need
> > a
> > > committer to take control. If someone is assigned I am more than
willing
> > to
> > > contribute to these (and other) areas.
> > >
> > > Niall
> > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: Craig R. McClanahan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > > > Sent: 16 June 2001 01:23
> > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED];
> > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > > Subject: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Struts 1.0 (Final) Released
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > As promised at JavaOne, the Struts project team is proud to
> > announce the
> > > > availability of Version 1.0 (final release) of the Struts Framework.
> > The
> > > > binary distribution is available at:
> > > >
> > > > http://jakarta.apache.org/builds/jakarta-struts/release/v1.0/
> > > >
> > > > and the source distribution is available at:
> > > >
> > > > http://jakarta.apache.org/builds/jakarta-struts/release/v1.0/src/
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Craig McClanahan
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
