Hanen, I think your response to Dave is outrageous and over-the-top. I didn't see anything offensive in his email.
Paul On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 9:36 AM, Hanen Ben Rhouma <hanen...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks for your reply Davidn but please guys try to stop talking to me as if > I'm an idiot stubborn girl who doesn't know what she wants or even what > she's talking about. I'm working with struts for almost 6 months now and I'm > still finding some difficulties not because of my stupidity but because of > the lack of support I've noticed on the web. Either they give you some peace > of code which you don't find a clue how to plug it into your solution or > they just keep turning around your precise requirement to stick with their > struts/java knowledge. > > I'm not confused about my requirement sir, I know what I want but the way to > achieve it on struts way is still clueless for me. You've understood one > side of my requirement but you didn't touch my blocking point. > > Here is a tutorial I've followed for coding the first part consisting of > rendering a dynamic drop down list with data assembled into a collection > http://www.laliluna.de/download/struts-html-optionscollection-en.pdf > > If you got time, check it out and tell me how can I render my description > page into "example" action while it's configured to maintain the business > logic of the data rendered into that drop down list (supposed to be an entry > point and not a resulting page for our form behavior). > > I know I'm not good enough in english to explain myself the way it should be > but it hasn't any relationship with my understanding of my requirement and > the logical way to get it done (reaching this state of seeing illogical > things made me wonder how come that no body has encountered such problem > before and how were they submitting their dynamic drop down lists > classicaly). > > Regards, > Hanen > > On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 3:59 PM, Kawczynski, David < > david_kawczyn...@merck.com> wrote: > >> I believe I understand what you are trying to accomplish: >> Ignoring the details (dojo, struts <html:form>, etc) for now... at a >> high level, you want to render a page containing a list of items. You >> want to enable a user to get low-level details on any one of those >> items. >> So far so good? >> While there are plenty of ways to accomplish this, I don't want to >> confuse you further so I'll only cover the simplest scenario: >> Assuming each of these items has single unique identifier that can be >> used to retrieve the details (your "change number"?) and a single simple >> small description that will give the use a clue what that item refers to >> (your "description"?)... >> >> You want two pages: >> >> * >> one that will render the entire list of items (but only this >> simple small description for each item) >> * >> one that will render all the low-level details for only one item >> >> >> You want two different DAO methods: >> >> * >> one that retrieves a List of all items' change number and >> description. >> * >> one that retrieves one item's details (description, creation >> date, user, workspace...) given the item's change number >> >> You want two struts actions: >> >> * >> one that calls the DAO's list method, puts the List into the >> httprequest, and renders the list page >> * >> one that calls the DAO's details method, puts those details into >> a single object and puts that object into the httprequest, and renders >> the details page >> >> On the list page: create a <form> whose action points to the struts >> details action. >> Create a <select> element, and populate its options from the list in the >> http request. >> Make each <option>'s value = the item's change number >> Make each <option>'s text = the item's description. >> On the details page, render attributes of the details object (found in >> the http request). >> >> If you follow this approach, chances are any problem you run into will >> be one that can be described in a clear and concise manner. Once you >> get this working correctly, you have the building blocks to do more >> advanced things like ajax interactions. But if you don't have a firm >> grasp on the basics you'll only end up frustrating yourself and wasting >> a lot your time. >> >> Good luck, >> -dave >> >> >> ________________________________ >> >> From: Hanen Ben Rhouma [mailto:hanen...@gmail.com] >> Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 4:00 AM >> To: Struts Users Mailing List >> Subject: Re: Problem Sumitting Struts Form containing a drop >> down list <html:optionsCollection> >> >> >> Morning, >> >> If I give code details, no one will show interest with so much >> details and with only the description of my requirement no one also >> could understand, that's pretty complicated you know!! >> >> Well, let me represent it with another approach, by screeshots >> maybe is better (please take a look at my jsp page shown in the attached >> screeshot). By selecting one change ID I'd like to forward my form to >> another jsp page representing the details of the selected change >> (description, change number, creation date, user, workspace...). >> >> The problem is that I'm either using dojo to code the drop down >> list from user side (and the mapping between simple <input> parameters >> and a struts form <html:form> isn't that trivial to do), or I've tried >> also to code it from server side (eventhough it's too slow) by using a >> struts form <html:form action="someAction"> containing >> <html:optionsCollection> to represent the dynamic drop down list (here >> the problem is that <html:optionsCollection> will make use of the struts >> action "someAction" to retrieve the data necessary to fill the drop down >> list and not to code the form's behavior after submitting it. >> >> Hope that my point is clearer this time, I'll be really grateful >> if someone got a clue to all this headache :((( >> >> Regards, >> Hanen >> >> >> >> On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 7:06 PM, Kawczynski, David >> <david_kawczyn...@merck.com> wrote: >> >> >> I'd love to be able to help but am confused with what >> you are having >> trouble with. I think I heard something about wanting >> to modify the >> action of a form based on the value selected in a >> drop-down. I also >> heard something about forwarding to another jsp page. >> If you can >> clarify your intent you may end up with a good pointer >> or two. >> :) >> >> >> > -----Original Message----- >> > From: Hanen Ben Rhouma [mailto:hanen...@gmail.com] >> > Sent: Monday, November 09, 2009 12:49 PM >> > To: Struts Users Mailing List >> > Subject: Problem Sumitting Struts Form containing a >> drop down >> > list <html:optionsCollection> >> > >> > Please, I need your help: I've spent more than one >> week on trying to >> figure out how to submit a struts 1 form containing a >> drop down list >> (using optionsCollection). The problem is that the items >> in the >> optionsCollection refer to the action assigned to the >> form while I need >> that same action to submit my form and trigger the >> forward to another >> jsp page. 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