Hi,
Can you please attach the sample source code for this? even I am facing
the same problem. I am new to Struts, so need some detailed example.
Thanks in advance,
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jdt.me.uk wrote:
>
>
> Hi Radu. Many thanks for your reply, and sorry for not responding sooner
> as I've only just got around to looking at your link.
>
> It definitely helped and I've got it working now. It's slightly different
> and doesn't rely on Preparable:
>
> class Question
> {
> long id;
> String name;
> }
>
> public class ViewQuestionsAction
> {
> // NOTE - getters required for all these properties
> List<Question> questions;
> List<String> answersList;
> Map<Long, String> answersMap;
> }
>
> jsp:
> <s:set name="answersList" value="%{answersList}"/>
> <s:set name="answersMap" value="%{answersMap}"/>
> <s:iterator value="questions" status="question_stat">
> <s:property value="name"/><br/>
> <s:radio name="answers[%{id}]" value="%{#answersMap[id]}"
> list="#answersList" />
> </s:iterator>
>
> public class SaveAnswersAction
> {
> // NOTE - getter AND setter required for this map
> private Map<Long, String> answersMap;
> }
>
> In the ViewQuestionsAction (which sources the JSP):
> 1) loads the questions from the DB;
> 2) populates all the possible answers into the answersList
> 3) populates the map with the current answers, keyed by question id
>
> When the page loads, the current answer is selected in the radio (due to
> value selecting the answer from the answersMap), and the radios are unique
> by question because the name is unique by question (due to the map keyed
> by question).
>
> When you click save, the SaveAnswersAction.answersMap map is populated
> with the selected answers, keyed by the question's id (no prepareable
> method needed). You can then do all the validation you need and update the
> DB as appropriate.
>
> I believe this is a really nice solution as loading entities from the DB
> in a prepare() method seems wrong to me. I'd be interested to hear what
> other people think.
>
> Many thanks
> James
>
>
>
> Rubbinio wrote:
>>
>> You need to use Map backed properties if you want to get this to work.
>>
>> Take a look at this example and you should be able to adapt it.
>>
>> http://www.vitarara.org/cms/struts_2_cookbook/updating_a_list_of_domain_entities
>>
>> Basically your properties are a map with id and Question objects and then
>> struts can repopulate your answers in the correct question object in the
>> map. It works very nice. I used it for a page that had a random number of
>> file uploads.
>>
>> HTH
>> Radu
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Jon Pearson [mailto:[email protected]]
>> Sent: May 4, 2009 8:18 AM
>> To: Struts Users Mailing List
>> Subject: RE: Radio button grouping in Struts 2
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I have a page which iterates over a collection of questions,
>>> with each question having a number of radio buttons which can
>>> be used to select the answer to that question. For example:
>>>
>>> Question 1: Unanswered O Yes O No O
>>> Question 2: Unanswered O Yes O No O
>>> etc..
>>>
>>> If the question has already been answered previously when the
>>> pages loads then the appropriate Yes/No is selected;
>>> otherwise Unanswered is selected.
>>> I've got this working fine using the following:
>>>
>>> class Question {
>>> long id;
>>> String name;
>>> String answer;
>>> }
>>>
>>> class ViewQuestionsAction {
>>> List<Question> questions;
>>> Map<String,String> answersMap; // key == value at the
>>> moment because didn't seem to work with int keys
>>>
>>> <s:set name="answersMap" value="%{answersMap}"/> <s:iterator
>>> value="questions">
>>> <s:property value="name"/>
>>> <s:radio name="%{id}" value="%{answer}"
>>> list="#answersMap"/> </s:iterator>
>>>
>>> I need the name=%{id} bit so that I can group the radio
>>> buttons per question. And this is the problem, because then I
>>> can't find a way for when you submit the form to receive an
>>> array of the selected buttons into the target action. The
>>> above works on page load (grouped nicely), but on submit I
>>> get all kinds of OGNL errors complaining about long id
>>> invalid expressions (understandable I guess). But when I
>>> choose a sensible name, for example:
>>>
>>> <s:radio name="responses" value="%{answer}" list="#answersMap"/>
>>>
>>> I get an array of selected buttons in the target action's
>>> responses property on submit but the radio grouping isn't
>>> working - you can only select on radio button from the whole
>>> page because they all share the same name element in the
>>> HTML. I then tried:
>>>
>>> <s:radio id="ViewQuestions_responses" name="%{id}" value="%{answer}"
>>> list="#answersMap"/>
>>>
>>> To try and force struts to set the responses property, but it
>>> still tries to set the property from the name. Which makes me
>>> think: if struts always uses the name to set the property,
>>> and the browser always groups the radio buttons based on the
>>> same name, is what I'm trying to do even possible?!?!
>>>
>>> Any help gratefully received :)
>>>
>>> Many thanks
>>> James
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>
>> You could, instead of relying on Struts2 to automatically call the
>> proper set* routines on submit, implement Preparable and manually parse
>> the results in the prepare() function, which is called BEFORE any set*
>> functions.
>>
>> ~Jonathan
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