Actionform backed by Map for use in Struts-Faces

[Karsten Krieg <kk...@intarsys.de>]

Hi List!

I'm using an Map-based Actionform for generating a number of input fields
based on the result of a database query. The actionform is implemented as
follows

public class MapForm extends ActionForm {

    private Map values = new HashMap();

    public void setValue(String key, Object value) {
        getValues().put(key, value);
    }

    public Object getValue(String key) {
        return getValues().get(key);
    }

    public Map getValues() {
        return values;
    }
}

I've used this map with the following html:text tag with an iteration over
another map named "keys" using the result "field. This map "keys" contains
the relevant map entries for input.

<c:forEach var="field" items="${state.attributes.keys}">
<html:text property="<%= "value(" +
((de.intarsys.efselect.util.AbstractFieldDescription)
pageContext.findAttribute("field")).getName() + ")" %>"/>
</c:forEach>

This works fine within Struts. However, I'm now migrating to JSF and
Struts-Faces integration library. I'd use the following construct:

<h:inputText id="<%= "value(" +
((de.intarsys.efselect.util.AbstractFieldDescription)
pageContext.findAttribute("field")).getName() + ")" %>"/>

This does not work, because the id attribute does not accept any
expressions. Any ideas how to solve this?



Thanks

Karsten Krieg




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Re: Actionform backed by Map for use in Struts-Faces

[Craig McClanahan <cr...@gmail.com>]

What you are running into is not an issue with the Struts-Faces
integration library.  There are significant issues interoperating
between JSTL and JSF -- in particular, you will need to use something
like the UIData component (using either the standard <h:dataTable>
tag, or with some other renderer) to do repeated rendering in things
like tables.  Trying to interoperate with <c:forEach> is not going to
work.

Craig



On Thu, 9 Sep 2004 12:13:45 +0200, Karsten Krieg <kk...@intarsys.de> wrote:
> Hi List!
> 
> I'm using an Map-based Actionform for generating a number of input fields
> based on the result of a database query. The actionform is implemented as
> follows
> 
> public class MapForm extends ActionForm {
> 
>     private Map values = new HashMap();
> 
>     public void setValue(String key, Object value) {
>         getValues().put(key, value);
>     }
> 
>     public Object getValue(String key) {
>         return getValues().get(key);
>     }
> 
>     public Map getValues() {
>         return values;
>     }
> }
> 
> I've used this map with the following html:text tag with an iteration over
> another map named "keys" using the result "field. This map "keys" contains
> the relevant map entries for input.
> 
> <c:forEach var="field" items="${state.attributes.keys}">
> <html:text property="<%= "value(" +
> ((de.intarsys.efselect.util.AbstractFieldDescription)
> pageContext.findAttribute("field")).getName() + ")" %>"/>
> </c:forEach>
> 
> This works fine within Struts. However, I'm now migrating to JSF and
> Struts-Faces integration library. I'd use the following construct:
> 
> <h:inputText id="<%= "value(" +
> ((de.intarsys.efselect.util.AbstractFieldDescription)
> pageContext.findAttribute("field")).getName() + ")" %>"/>
> 
> This does not work, because the id attribute does not accept any
> expressions. Any ideas how to solve this?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Karsten Krieg
> 
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