If each of the buttons is a Submit button, and you have each row of the
table wrapped in a separate form, you can put a <s:hidden> within each form,
and store/provide the ID of the row within it.
jk
On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 11:22 AM, Ylva Degerfeldt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I have a List of POJOs that I've created, and for every POJO in the
> list I'm displaying some UI components corresponding to the properties
> of the POJO (textfields and select fields et.c.). I also have some
> submit buttons that belong to each row (and indirectly to each POJO),
> like "Edit", "Save" and "Remove" buttons. My corresponding Action has
> a property for the List and it receives its values the way it should.
>
> My problem is that I need some way to tell the Action which of the
> buttons that had been pushed (which one of the "Edit" buttons for
> instance), and I don't know how to do that. To be more exact, I'd like
> some way to return the #state.index of that iteration/row when a
> specific button has been pushed.
>
> I'm also using the "method" tag for calling different methods on the
> Action depending on which of the three buttons that was pushed, so
> that's not a problem.
>
> I've tried to find more information about the s:submit but I didn't
> find anything in "Struts 2 in Action" and the Struts 2 API docs aren't
> explaining much either.
>
> I've tried using the "name" and "value" attributes like for other UI
> components, like:
>
> <s:submit name = "Edit" value = "%{#state.index}" key =
> "caption.editbutton" method = "Edit"/>
>
> but that only caused the index value to be the caption of the button.
> So it looks like "value" means something else for submit components
> than for other UI components. (It turns into the caption, If a "value"
> is specified..)
>
> I've also checked the parameter names I receive from the action, but
> apart from the different properties of the List I only receive
> "method: Edit" (when an "Edit" button has been pressed). Though I
> recall that when not using Struts you could receive the name of the
> button as a request parameter, so how do I do that with Struts 2 - and
> connect a value to it?
>
> Maybe I could use the "onclick" attribute of s:submit but I don't know
> the syntax for sending a value to the Action there. (Isn't that
> javascript?)
>
> Can somebody please help me with this?
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> /Ylva
>
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