If i understand your question right, you have a code
collectionElement.fskRating which represents a rating? (ie 1 = "pg-13",
2="G").
I have never done this, but i dont see why you cant just put an array/map of
the full values into the request scope, then use jstl to look it up:
somthing like: ${fullFskRatings[collectionElement.fskRating]} (cant remember
exactly how to do it).
The other method would be to add a "getFullFskRating()" to the
collectionElement bean.
Or write a custom tag that does the conversion, ie: <mytag:fskrating
value="collectionElement.fskRating"/>
Daniel.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tim Cross [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: 06 September 2004 18:34
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: another easy (I hope) beginner question
>
>
> Hail gurus, especially Robert Taylor at mulework.com, who,
> in spite of his claims not to be a guru, set me right on
> my last easy beginner question (as did my friend and former
> colleague Ciaran Kenny back in Boulder - the same answer
> came in from both gurus within an hour of each other).
>
> Here's this week's abuse of this valuable resource:
>
> There's a database back there somewhere, and it stores
> autogenerated primary keys and FSK ratings (little bitty
> strings representing ratings for stuff shown in movie
> theatres, the German equiv to "G", "PG-13", "R" etc.,
> for my fellow Yanks at home and abroad). These FSK ratings
> get attached to chunks of content our system keeps track
> of. There's an FskRatingAction that populates a LabelValueBean
> with the DB ids as values, and the little strings as labels.
> Works great for adding and editing stuff that has an FSK rating,
> e.g.,
>
> Format: <html:text property="format"/><BR>
> FSK Rating: <html:select property="fskRating">
> <html:options collection="fskRatingOptionBean"
> property="value" labelProperty="label"/>
> </html:select><BR>
> Play Length: <html:text property="playLength"/><BR>
>
> What I'm trying to figure out is this: When I'm trying to display
> a bunch of things that have FSK ratings, is there some combination
> of logic and bean tags that will allow me to pull in the FSK rating
> to the display, i.e., replacing
>
> <td><bean:write name="collectionElement" property="format"/></td>
> <td><bean:write name="collectionElement" property="fskRating"/></td>
> <td><bean:write name="collectionElement" property="playLength"/></td>
>
> which displays the (not particularly human-useful) Id, with
>
> <td><bean:write name="collectionElement" property="format"/></td>
> <td><whatever:whatever bean="fskRatingOptionBean"
>
> whatever="getLabelForValueThatComesFromCollElt"
> /></td>
> <td><bean:write name="collectionElement" property="playLength"/></td>
>
> Or do I need to set up a separate method in the FskRatingAction to
> create a per-row bean that I can pull in with bean:include? Seems
> kind of performance-ugly, if so, and much cooler to keep it in
> the .jsp file.
>
> Any tips, like last time and always, hugely appreciated.
>
> Tim
>
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