Hi,
Thanks for replying... I did stumble onto the index extension
in my search, but i thought i could manage without!
I will try to do as you describes, thanks a lot!
^terp
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Niall Pemberton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, July 02, 2001 12:57 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: Problems with iterate
>
>
> You need to do two things.
>
> First, you need to generate appropriate names for your input fields. If you
> use the current Struts tags then all the occurances of your two fields in
> the example below will generate names of "firstName" and "lastName". What
> you want is to generate names in the format "contactDataVector[x].firstName"
> and "contactDataVector[x].lastName", where x is the index number of the
> field. Dave Hay has posted a set of modified Struts tags which generate
> these names on Ted Husted's site:
> http://www.husted.com/about/struts/resources.htm#extensions - "Indexed
> Tags"
>
> Secondly you need to provide the appropriate getters/setters in your bean
> and ActionForm. Obviously in your bean you need setFirstName() and
> setLastName() methods - additionally you need the following getter in your
> ActionForm:
>
> public ContactData getContactDataVector(int index) {
>
> return (ContactData)(contactDataVector.get(index));
>
> }
>
> Hope this helps.
>
>
> Niall
>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Torsten Terp [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: 01 July 2001 19:01
> > To: Struts user list
> > Subject: Problems with iterate
> >
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Sorry if this has been answered before, but i havent been able to
> > find an answer!
> >
> > Im using iterate to display a vector containg valueobjects, i.e.,
> >
> > <html:form action="showContacts">
> > <logic:iterate id="contacts" name="form" property="contactDataVector">
> > <html:hidden name="contacts" property="contactId"/>
> > <tr>
> > <td width="150">
> > <html:text name="contacts" property="firstName" size="20"/>
> > </td>
> > <td width="150">
> > <html:text name="contacts" property="lastName" size="20"/>
> > </td>
> > </tr>
> > ...
> > ...
> >
> > 'form' is my struts form bean, 'contactDataVector' is a vector of
> > 'contactData'
> > objects each containing (among others) the variables 'firstName'
> > and 'lastName'.
> >
> > There is no problem in displaying the data, all goes well, but
> > updating fields
> > in the form is not working, when i want to save the changes in
> > the struts action
> > the vector is null! I can see that making a variable 'firstName'
> > in the form, results
> > in a call to its setter method, i.e., i can make it work when
> > updating a single row,
> > but i cant manage to get the update to work on the actual
> > contactData objects in the
> > vector. ?!?!
> >
> > Any advices out there??
> >
> > ^terp
> >
>
>
>
