You know before I read you messages, I would have understood "crack" programmer as a compliment - now I'm thinking it could be a support group for those of us who spend too much time on lists like this :-).
----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Lowe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Struts Users Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2004 11:51 AM Subject: Re: Changing position of nested beans > The only reason why dispatch action appeals is that i can map the form > to one action and have several buttons within a form without needing to > change to form action with javascript or anything grotty like that. > > I'm not especially keen dispatch actions . Just this business of using > links and the request being cleared leaves me scoping to session and > using a link, again i'm not that against scoping to session but I > thought someone in the anti httpsession brigade would have a solution > for this common problem. > > I don't think I'm tree-barking but ruminating on dispatch action > (although i'm not certain). > > I'm trying various ways and seeing what happens. But indexed handler > parameters seem like the sort of thing that would be required to do > such a thing, but seem to be more the consequence of a crack induced > state of derangement than something that struts supports. > > > On 11 Mar 2004, at 12:19, Niall Pemberton wrote: > > > Mark, > > > > Seems to me you have already worked out the solution, except why do > > you need > > a lookup dispatch action - rather than a "roll your own" - you have two > > methods right - "Move Up" and "Move Down"? > > > > Your jsp will populate a (foo?) List with either "Move Up" or "Move > > Down" > > (depending on the button pressed) in the appropriate index position - > > so you > > loop through them until you find a none null entry and call the > > appropriate > > method depending on the value with the index position you're at. > > > > trying to use look up dispatch action seems to be overly complicating > > things > > to me. > > > > Niall > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Mark Lowe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: "Struts Users Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2004 9:31 AM > > Subject: Changing position of nested beans > > > > > >> I was wondering if anyone has found any slick, no javascript dependent > >> solution to the following situation. My question in short is, is there > >> a way of having an indexed dispatch action, or have i been on the > >> crack > >> again? > >> > >> I have a form of nested beans which are ordered according to a > >> position > >> stored in the model. I don't do any sorting in the web tier nor do i > >> want to, other than rejigging the indices of some indexed properties > >> until such a time as the user is ready to save his/her changes to the > >> model. > >> > >> <form name="foosForm" action="/myapp/save.do"> > >> <input type="text" name="foo[0].name"> > >> <input type="text" name="foo[1].name"> > >> <input type="text" name="foo[2].name"> > >> </form> > >> > >> Now when i save I'll save the index as a field called position, thus > >> all that's fine and dandy. > >> > >> So lets say I want the use to define the position by having a move up > >> and move down, but rather than using an indexed link i want to use a > >> button. > >> > >> I've a lookup dispatch action with a moveup method and all that jazz. > >> > >> <html:form action="/save.do"> > >> <logic:iterate id="foo" name="foosForm" property="foos"> > >> <html:text name="foo" property="name" indexed="true" /> > >> <html:submit property="method" indexed="true"> > >> <bean:message key="button.moveup" /> > >> </html:submit> > >> </logic:iterate> > >> </html:form> > >> > >> So the rendered html would like like this > >> > >> <form name="foosForm" action="/myapp/save.do"> > >> <input type="text" name="foo[0].name"><input type="submit" > >> name="method[0]" value="Move Up"> > >> //and so on > >> </form> > >> > >> Of course if i submit this to a lookupdispatch action, its gonna call > >> me a crazy fool. So i need to have some means of having an indexed map > >> key in my key method map, or something to cross the same bridge i'm > >> trying to cross. > >> > >> Any ideas? I know i can do this in javascript which i will once i get > >> things running without it, please no javascript suggestions. > >> > >> > >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> > >> > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
