Hold the Phone!... Nesting Tags (including form items)

[Arron Bates <ar...@keyboardmonkey.com>]

Worthy developers (especially those with commit abilities  :),

Attached is something that I think that a lot of people would find 
useful, and... too easy to integrate.

 From what I know (open to debate), there's no way to properly nest 
beans within beans and be able to use them properly without
masses of  duplicated Html, unrelenting amounts of bean properties or 
whatever. Certainly can't nest through more than one iterator tag.

Consider the following bean composition...

monkeyTeamAlpha.monkeyWorkers[1].productivity.pickedBunches[1].bananaList[0].flavour

The example attached has everything needed to manage that structure 
(change values on beans on all levels) on only one JSP page in a very 
elegant fashion.

I've been in one side of this and out the other. Created my own indexed 
tags (before the nightly build version) and another nested-indexed (tree 
structure) tag
system before I realised this, and it was too easy. You guys had already 
coded it for me (at least the PropertyUtils half). I could get it 
working in terms of viewing using nothing but struts, but the issue was 
that it couldn't set against the nested properties as the tags weren't 
concerned with writing out nested properties. Hence these tags.

The running example (if you want to confirm it's cool before wasting 
your time)...
http://www.keyboardmonkey.com/MonkeyStruts.jsp

There's so many was to build on it to bring in even more niceties... 
plenty of ideas, but that's the step after this one... adoption of the idea.
It's already past the "absolutely handy" phase and in production on code 
I have here. It's saved days of development and made the way for 
solutions that would have been impossible... and allowed some really 
nice bean composition. Truly has.

The attached war file is ready for plonking into tomcat with the 
exception that struts.jar isn't in it's lib directory (figured you guys 
would handle that).

Take a look around... I look forward to your comments.


Arron Bates.
(theKM*)
* keyboard's here, the monkey is in the mail

Re: Hold the Phone!... Nesting Tags (including form items)

[Arron Bates <ar...@keyboardmonkey.com>]

OK... Service provider doesn't like running webapps.... just run it local.
You'll have more fun anyways  ;)

Arron.


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