Its the name/property specified on the <html:select> tag that causes
OptionsCollection to set "selected" - in your case the select tag needs to
look at he country property of the customer bean - if optionsCollection
finds a value that matches that, it will set selected.
<html:select name="customer" property="country">
<html:optionsCollection ...../>
</select>
Niall
----- Original Message -----
From: "Frank Schaare" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Struts Users Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2004 11:49 AM
Subject: rePost: How to set the selected value in an select rendered by
optionsCollection
> Hi all,
>
> i�m reposting my problem trying to be a little bit more specific. This
> problem is very important for me, though i made another 'book like'
> example to show where i am.
>
> There are three beans playing in my theatre:
> 1. the CommonValuesBean which stores frequently asked data for my JSP
> HTMLForms
> 2. the CustomerBean which is an buisiness objekt representing a customer
> 3. the DynaForm which stores data coming from my JSP HTMLForms.
>
> First of all, the CommonValuesBean is initialised. Therefore, i�ve got
> the sessionListener that puts data in it, anytime a new session is creatd:
>
> public void sessionCreated(HttpSessionEvent event) {
> CommonValuesBean commonValuesBean = new CommonValuesBean(); // create
> new bean instance
> HashMap countries = new HashMap(); // Create new map
> countries.put("countryCode1","country1")
> countries.put("countryCode2","country2")
> countries.put("countryCode3","country3")
>
> countries.setCountries(countries); // Our example map is now stored
>
> HttpSession session = event.getSession();
> session.setAttribute("commonValuesBean",CommonValuesBean);
> }
>
> Now we begin to deal with the customers. There is listCustomers Action
> that shows all of the customers. You can klick one to
> get more detailed information using the customersDetailsAction:
>
> public class customersDetailsAction extends Action
> {
> private Customer customer = new Customer();
>
> public ActionForward execute(ActionMapping mapping,ActionForm
> form,HttpServletRequest req,HttpServletResponse res)
> throws IOException, ServletException
> {
> customer.setFirstName("Frank");
> customer.setLastName("Schaare");
> customer.setCountry("country2");
>
> req.setAttribute("customer",customer); // storing customer in request
>
> return mapping.findForward("customerShowDetails"); // mapped to
> customerShowDetails.jsp
> }
> }
>
> The customerShowDetails.jsp looks like this:
>
> <html:form action="/BenutzerBearbeitungSubmit">
> .
> . tons of markup
> .
> <html:select property="country" size="1">
> <html:optionsCollection name="commonValuesBean"
> property="countries" label="value" value="key"/>
> </html:select>
> .
> . again: tons of markup
> .
>
> </html:form>
>
> The problem is, that the <html:optionsCollection> renders a select like
> this:
>
> <select name="country">
> <option value="countryCode1">country1</option>
> <option value="countryCode2">country2</option>
> <option value="countryCode3">country3</option>
> </select>
>
> i desperately NEED to render the select like this:
>
> <select name="country">
> <option value="countryCode1">country1</option>
> <option selected value="countryCode2">country2</option>
> <option value="countryCode3">country3</option>
> </select>
>
> because my customer lives in country2 !
>
> Is there any way to tell Struts to do this ?
>
>
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