Sorry if this isn't really a struts specific problem per se, but I've encountered it now while rewriting an application with struts...
Using struts tags picture the output being generated like: <option value="1">DOG</option> <option value="2">CAT</option> <option value="3">FROG</option> Picture several of these multiple select drop downs that are used to generate a search based on the criteria selected. The problem is on the search results page I also want to include a display of the options selected for the different search criteria. I'd be interested in hearing how others have accomplished this task using struts. Before using struts I wasn't populating a form bean so what I would do is when the values were created I would create values like: 1_DOG 2_CAT etc I would then parse out the first numbers for use in the query and then use everything after the first underscore to build an array for displaying search selections. In my current application the option lists are generated dynamically from ArrayLists of particular beans. If the situation was as simple as above I'd just have a nice little HashMap stored somewhere where I could have the key be the number and the value by the String for the animal. Unfortunately a Map doesn't really work well for this as the ArrayList of beans coming from the business logic contain a lot more than just two fields. I don't really like this idea much but I'm thinking what I'll have to do is create extra fields in the form bean to represent this concatenated value and when it the setter is called it will also parse what it needs to and set the other fields. Is there maybe a better to do accomplish this task? Thanks for any input. -- Rick mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] "Maybe in order to understand mankind, we have to look at the word itself: 'Mankind'. Basically, it's made up of two separate words - 'mank' and 'ind'. What do these words mean ? It's a mystery, and that's why so is mankind." -Jack Handey -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
