Just add something like the following to the methods that execute before JSP
processing.
this.roles = service.getRoles();
You might also look into the Preparable interface, depending on application
design.
-Brian
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 8:02 AM, Sommers, Elizabeth <somme...@pragmatics.com
> wrote:
> All the drop down lists in my application need to be generated from the
> database. Some of these lists will be needed for more than one JSP.
> So, in order to work with the <s:select> tag I am building an action for
> each list.
>
> I know this has to be wrong. Especially because some JSP's will need
> multiple drop down lists. What is the best way of doing this in struts
> 2.1.8? Here is an example create method that I am using and the JSP
> that feeds it. Should I be using a better way to get to create from a
> JSP? I want to be able to use the roles drop down in multiple JSP's.
>
> public String createUser()
> {
> User user = new User();
> user.setUserName(userName);
> user.setPassword(password);
> user.setFirstName(firstName);
> user.setLastName(lastName);
> user.setPhone(phone);
> user.setEmail(email);
> service.createUser(user);
> String userId = service.getUserId(user.getUserName());
> roleUser = new RoleUser();
> roleUser.setRoleId(roleId);
> roleUser.setUserId(userId);
> service.createRoleUser(roleUser);
> roleUser = null;
> user = null;
> return SUCCESS;
> }
>
> <%@ page contentType="text/html; charset=UTF-8"%>
> <%@ taglib prefix="s" uri="/struts-tags"%>
>
> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"; xml:lang="en" lang="en">
> <s:head />
> <body>
> <font color="red"><html:errors /></font>
> <s:form action="createUserAction">
> <div class="inputs">
> <s:hidden name="id" />
> <s:textfield label="User Name:" name="userName" />
> <s:password label="Password:"
> name="password" />
> <s:password label="Repeat Password"
> name="password2" /></div>
> <s:textfield label="First Name:" name="firstName"></s:textfield>
> <s:textfield label="Last Name:" name="lastName"/>
> <s:textfield label="Email:" name="email"/>
> <s:textfield label="Phone:" name="phone"/>
> <s:select label="Role:" name="roleId" list="roles" listKey="id"
> listValue="name"/>
> <s:submit></s:submit>
> </div>
> </s:form>
> </body>
>
> Elizabeth Sommers
> Build and Release Engineer
> Pragmatics, Inc.
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