Re: AAAARGH! SOMEONE! How do I set the default selection when I'm using html:options?

[Jan Fetyko <st...@phase2online.com>]

One more advice to make your life easier: Why bother getting the states 
from the database for every form ( or even the same form ) when it's 
accessed ? I think the better way is to load the states when the app 
starts up and store it in the application bean in format that you can 
get the list very easy way, by getting it from the application bean on 
the form, like this :

                <html:select property="state">
                <logic:present name="abean" scope="application">
                <html:option key="text.choosestate" value=""/>
                <html:options name="abean" property="statesarraykeys" 
labelName="abean" labelProperty="statesarrayvalues"/>
                </logic:present>
            </html:select>

both "statesarraykeys" and "statesarrayvalues" in the application bean 
are "ArrayList"(s).

Let's face it, how often a list of US states changes ? Once in 500 years 
? :)

Jf


Galbreath, Mark wrote:

>In your Action class, call a data access object to get a ResultSet from your
>database containing all the states and pass them as a List.
>
>Action class:
>myDAO dao = new myDAO();
>dao.getStates();
>
>
>DAO:
>public List getStates() throws SQLException {
>  List states = new ArrayList();
>
>  while( rs.next()) {
>    states.add( rs.getString( "[name of db column containing states]");
>  }
>  return states;
>}
>
>Action class:
>MyActionForm actionForm = (MyActionForm) form;
>form.setStates( states);
>
>ActionForm class:
>private List states = null;
>public void setStates( List states){
>  this.states = states;
>}
>public List getStates(){
>  return states;
>}
>
>JSP:
><html:select property="usStates">
>  <html:option value="0">Select A State</html:option>
>  <html:options name="MyActionForm.getStates()" />
></html:select>
>
>Mark
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Jan Fetyko [mailto:struts@phase2online.com]
>Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2002 2:22 PM
>To: Struts Users Mailing List
>Subject: Re: AAAARGH! SOMEONE! How do I set the default selection when
>I'm using html:options?
>
>
>Can you post some code : what are the values of the states, what is the 
>definitions in the form, how you're setting the default value , etc.
>
>Jf
>
>Michael Lee wrote:
>
>  
>
>>Thanks, but nada.
>>The ActionForm state is set yet its still not working. :(
>>Is the problem with the options?
>><html:select property="state" size="1">
>>   <html:options name="allUnitedStates" labelName="allUnitedStates"/>
>> </html:select>
>>
>>----- Original Message -----
>>From: "Hoang, Hai" <Ha...@coair.com>
>>To: "'Struts Users Mailing List'" <st...@jakarta.apache.org>
>>Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2002 11:31 AM
>>Subject: RE: How do I set the default selection when I'm using
>>    
>>
>html:options?
>  
>
>> 
>>
>>    
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>>>You need to populate the value of the property of the dropdown before the
>>>jsp is render...the best way to do this is in the action class.
>>>
>>>For example, you have getter and setter for State in the form bean...now
>>>   
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>you
>> 
>>
>>    
>>
>>>need to setState("TX") in the action class if you want to have Texas as a
>>>default state.
>>>
>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>From: wbchmura@Ensign-BickfordInd.com
>>>[mailto:wbchmura@Ensign-BickfordInd.com]
>>>Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2002 10:28 AM
>>>To: struts-user@jakarta.apache.org
>>>Subject: RE: How do I set the default selection when I'm using
>>>   
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>html:options?
>> 
>>
>>    
>>
>>>You can add in an <html:option> tag above the <html:options> tag that
>>>will be the default.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>From: mleejr [mailto:mleejr@hotmail.com]
>>>Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2002 11:21 AM
>>>To: struts-user
>>>Subject: How do I set the default selection when I'm using html:options?
>>>
>>>
>>>1) How do I set a default value in an html:select on an options list? I
>>>need the default state to be the one loaded from the struts form.
>>>It doesn't like this.
>>>
>>><html:select property="state" size="1" value="<%= state in ActionForm
>>>%>">
>>>  <html:options name="allUnitedStates" labelName="allUnitedStates"/>
>>></html:select>
>>>
>>>thanks everyone,
>>>Mike
>>>
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