I have run into this before as well. My solution was just to include a property on the form itself with the name set on the jsp that in turn sets the property at the correct level instead of holding the property on the form. Just need to use javabeans naming convention so your method is called when struts tries to repopulate the form.
Hope that makes sense. Regards...djsuarez -----Original Message----- From: Muhammad Momin Rashid [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 26, 2004 4:48 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: nested collections and index Hello, I have a collection of beans, and within the bean I have another collection of beans (e.g. collection of Forms, when each form contains a collection of FormFields). Now in my JSP I am trying to iterate through the two nested collections (which works fine at this point). When I access the fields of the nested collection (formField) in my JSP they get displayed as desired too. However, the updates to the desired field are not being submitted. The HTML code generated by JSP contains references to formField[index].field (for the nested bean), whereas, in my opinion it should generate something like forms[formIndex].formField[formFieldIndex].field. Any ideas on how to accomplish this? The reason behind all this is that the correct bean in the nested collection should get updated when the person presses the submit button. I have tried this for a non-nested collection and the generated HTML works as desired, but in case of nested collections, the beans do not get updated. I believe this has something to do with the generated HTML. Perhaps there is some additional tags I need to define somewhere, I have gone through the nested tag library, but so far no success. The code snippit from JSP is pasted at the end for your reference, incase you need to look at it. Thanks for your time and effort. Regards, Muhammad Momin Rashid. <nested:iterate id="forms" name="FormCodeGenValidation" property="forms" indexId="indexForm"> <tr> <td><nested:write name="forms" property="formName"/></td> <td><nested:write name="forms" property="packageForm"/></td> <nested:present name="forms" property="formFields"> <table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing"0" border="0" id="TableFormFields"> <tr> <td width="1%"> </td> <td>Field Name</td> <td>Type</td> <td>Required</td> <td>Recursive</td> </tr> <nested:iterate id="formFields" name="forms" property="formFields" indexId="indexFormField" type="VoFormField"> <tr> <nested:nest property="forms"> <td width="1%"> </td> <td width="1%"><nested:write name="formFields" property="name"/></td> <td width="1%" nowrap="true"><nested:write name="formFields" property="type"/></td> <td><nested:checkbox name="formFields" property="required" indexed="true"/></td> <td><nested:checkbox name="formFields" property="recursive" indexed="true"/></td> </nested:nest> </tr> </nested:iterate> </table> </nested:present> </tr> </nested:iterate> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
