I believe HDIV (www.hdiv.org) provided something like this.
On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 3:18 PM, Givler, Eric <egiv...@state.pa.us> wrote:
> 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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