Indexed Properties with DynaActionForm Problems

[Josh Rayls <jr...@crunchtime.com>]

Hello,

I have been struggling with this for a couple of days now.  I've scoured the
archives from top to bottom, and I've found some useful tidbits, but nothing
that directly addresses my dilemma.  Then again, maybe I'm just not getting
it!

I get an IndexOutOfBoundsException each time.  I want to be able to have an
arbitrary numbers of rows in the form and then be able to construct beans
from the rows in my action class.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.  I'm going to have very little hair
left when this is done....

-Josh

Code is below:


JSP ---------------

<!-- Begin table body data -->
    <tbody>
     <c:set var="count" value="-1"/>
     <c:forEach items="${collection}" var="dayPart">
      <c:set var="count" value="${count + 1}"/>
      <tr>
       <td>
        <html:hidden property="id" value="${dayPart.id}" indexed="true"/>
        <html:hidden property="status" value="${dayPart.status}"
indexed="true"/>
        <html:hidden property="deleteable" value="${dayPart.deleteable}"
indexed="true"/>
        <html:text property="code" size="3" maxlength="3"
value="${dayPart.code}" indexed="true"/>
       </td>
       <td>
        <html:text property="name" size="16" value="${dayPart.name}"
indexed="true"/>
       </td>
       <td>
        <html:text property="beginTime" maxlength="4" size="10"
value="${dayPart.beginTime}" onblur="check24Hours(this)" indexed="true"/>
       </td>
       <td>
        <html:text property="endTime" maxlength="4" size="10"
value="${dayPart.endTime}" onblur="check24Hours(this)" indexed="true"/>
       </td>
       <td>
        <c:if test="${dayPart.deleteable}">
         <ct:isAuthorized screen="68" control="30">
          <html:link
href="javascript:post('delete','null','${dayPart.id}');">
           <html:img src="images/delete.gif" border="0"/>
          </html:link>
         </ct:isAuthorized>
        </c:if>
       </td>
      </tr>
     </c:forEach>
     <html:hidden property="rows" value="${count}"/>
    </tbody>
    <!-- End table body data -->

Action -------------

    // instance variables
    ActionErrors errors = new ActionErrors();
    Collection c = new ArrayList();
    int rows = ((Integer)PropertyUtils.getProperty(actionForm,
"rows")).intValue();

    // populate the collection with day parts
    DayPart dayPart = null;
    PropertyDescriptor[] props =
PropertyUtils.getPropertyDescriptors(DayPart.class);
    for (int x=0; x<rows; x++) {
      dayPart = new DayPart();
      for (int i=0; i<props.length; i++) {
        PropertyUtils.getIndexedProperty(actionForm, props[i].getName(), x);
      }
      // add the new day part to the collection
      c.add(dayPart);
    }

    try {
      CorporateManager manager = JNDIUtil.createCorporateManager();
      manager.updateDayParts(c);
    } catch (SetupException se) {
      LogManager.error(this.getClass(), "There has been a problem updating
dayparts.", se);
      errors.add(ActionErrors.GLOBAL_ERROR, new ActionError("The day parts
could not be updated."));
    }

    // forward request
    if (errors.isEmpty()) {
      return actionMapping.findForward("view");
    } else {
      this.saveErrors(request, errors);
      return actionMapping.findForward("view");
    }

Struts-Config.xml ----------------

              <form-bean name="daypartForm"
type="org.apache.struts.action.DynaActionForm">
               <form-property name="action" type="java.lang.String"/>
               <form-property name="sortType" type="java.lang.String"/>
               <form-property name="id" type="java.util.ArrayList"/>
               <form-property name="status" type="java.util.ArrayList"/>
               <form-property name="deleteable" type="java.util.ArrayList"/>
               <form-property name="code" type="java.util.ArrayList"/>
               <form-property name="name" type="java.util.ArrayList"/>
               <form-property name="beginTime" type="java.util.ArrayList"/>
               <form-property name="endTime" type="java.util.ArrayList"/>
               <form-property name="rows" type="java.lang.Integer"/>
              </form-bean>