I have a form which needs to display several dropdown combo boxes, one in particular is to be populated with values as follows:
Today Yesterday This Week Last Week This Month Last Month Last 3 Months This Year Last Year series of Month/Day/Year values All
I wanted to ask others opinion on which is the better approach to populating this combo-box values? I could use a taglib similar to the following:
<ss:TransactionDateSelectBox name="transactionForm" property="date"/>
The above would do a bean lookup for transactionForm with property date and output the necessary HTML select/option tags needed to show the form's selection box.
Or my action which forwards to the JSP could populate a collection of LabelValueBean objects and then the JSP could iterate over the collection using html:options.
For a menu like this (which appears as though it might be constant in the scope of the application), I would suggest making the list of LVBs in a ServletContextListener or PlugIn and storing them in application scope; then you may not even need a prep-action.
You can use the Digesting PlugIn and the stock "lvb-digester-rules.xml" and do this very easily. See http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/struts/apps/trunk/shared/src/webapp/WEB-INF/struts-config.xml for an example of how to configure, and other files near that in the SVN repository for examples of the XML for the menu options and the digester rules.
Joe
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