Can't you do something like this:
StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer(255);
Map fields = BeanUtils.describe( xmlbean );
Iterator iter = fields.keySet().iterator();
while (iter.hasNext()) {
String key = (String) iter.next();
String value = String.valueOf( fields.get( key ) ) ;
if (value != null && ! value.trim().equals("") ) {
sb.append( key.charAt(0) ); // use first letter
sb.append( "=" );
sb.append( URLEncoder.encode( value, "UTF-8" ) );
sb.append( "&" );
}
}
String queryString = sb.toString();
queryString = queryString.substring(0, queryString.length() -1);
ActionForward fwd = new ActionForward(
mapping.findForward("searchresults") );
fwd.setPath( fwd.getPath() + "?" + queryString );
fwd.setRedirect( true );
return fwd;
-----Original Message-----
From: farmer2008 [mailto:ee...@ncf.ca]
Sent: Sunday, December 21, 2008 3:33 PM
To: user@struts.apache.org
Subject: Struts 1: how to use different parameter names from html field names
Hi,
My html form uses "get" method to send data to server to do a search.
<html:form action="/searchresult.do" method="get">
City: <html:text property="city"/><br/><br/>
...
<html:submit value="Search"/>
</html:form>
So in the result page, the url will be .../searchresult.do?city=....
Since the form contains many fields and some fields' values are pretty long, I
plan to use one letter to name each field so that the length of the result url
won't exceed 255 characters. E.g. if c is used to represent the city filed, the
above code would be like this:
<html:form action="/searchresult.do" method="get">
City: <html:text property="c"/><br/><br/>
...
<html:submit value="Search"/>
</html:form>
and the result page's url would be .../searchresult.do?c=..., which is what I
expect.
Now a problem comes up. I have to use the single character to name the property
in the view and in the action form class, which is not good as it's not
meaningful.
I'd like to use "city" to name the City field but when the form is submitted,
the result page url would use a signle character to pass the City's value, like
.../searchresult.do?c=... instead of .../searchresult.do?city=.... Is there a
way to do that? Is there a mapping between url parameter names and html fileld
names we can establish in struts 1?
Many thanks.
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