Re: Is it better to return list of formbeans or list of objects created by torque?

[Mark Lowe]

You want to populate forms from actions..

So in an action servlet you use the objects generated by torque and 
populate the form form there.

e.g.

Iterator it = customerList.iterator();

while(it.hasNext()) {
        Customer cust = (Customer) it.next();
        String fieldName = cust.getFieldName();
        theForm.get("fieldName", fieldName);
}
Or to display in a jsp just feed it to an available context ..

eg

pageContext.setAttribute("myObj",customerList.toArray());
or
request.setAttribute ("myObj",customerList.toArray());
or
session.setAttribute ("myObj",customerList.toArray());
cheers mark

On Thursday, Jun 5, 2003, at 22:46 Europe/London, "" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
wrote:

Hi,

I am using Torque with Struts.

I need to display some data from database in .jsp file.

I retrieve my data in action class as:

Criteria criteria = new Criteria;
List customerList = CustomerPeer.doSelect(criteria)
Now I have a list populated with objects made by Torque..?

I would like to return a list of formbeans presenting the customer
instead of these objects.
Something like:

List customerList = 
(myCustomerFormBean)CustomerPeer.doSelect(criteria);

Is it possible to cast a CustomerPeer object to formbean? If not
how should I do this?
Should I even try to return formbeans or is ok to use objects?
Formbeans should be lighter as least???
Thanks in advance,

Ville Kaseva













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