Initial form field value

[Vjeran Marcinko <vj...@tis.hr>]

Hi folks.

I'm not using Intake to handle form fields, because I have some requirements
that it doesn't fit into. Nevertheless, I use standard way of handling form
fields :

<input type="text" name="url" value="$data.parameters.url">

I'm using value="$data.parameters.url", thus field value would be populated
with previous value in case of reviewing form page due to validation
exception. Everything works fine except I dunno how to set elegantly initial
field value ? In case above, I would like to be 'http://' value since it is
URL field. Can somebody point me the way ?

Regards,
Vjeran


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RE: Initial form field value

[David Demner <tu...@demner.com>]

Hi Vjeran,

What do you mean by elegant?

An if statement will work, but certainly not elegant.
---
#if ("$!data.Parameters.Url" == "")
  #set ($url = "http://")
#else
  #set ($url = "$data.Parameters.Url")
#end
<input type="text" name="url" value="$url">
---

Alternately, you can stuff it into the context from the underlying java
class:
--- blah.java ---
package com.whatever;


// Velocity Stuff
import org.apache.velocity.context.Context;
import org.apache.commons.lang.StringUtils;

// Turbine Stuff
import org.apache.turbine.util.RunData;
import org.apache.turbine.modules.screens.VelocityScreen;

public class blah extends VelocityScreen {
    public void doBuildTemplate(RunData data, Context context) {
        // the context object has already been setup for you!
        context.put("url",
StringUtils.defaultString(data.getParameters().get("Url"), "http://"));
    }
}
--- blah.vm ---
<input type="text" name="url" value="$url">
---

Not elegant either unless you are already using an underlying class and can
just add the one line.

Good luck,

David



-----Original Message-----
From: Vjeran Marcinko [mailto:vjeran@tis.hr] 
Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 11:55 PM
To: turbine-user@jakarta.apache.org
Subject: Initial form field value


Hi folks.

I'm not using Intake to handle form fields, because I have some requirements
that it doesn't fit into. Nevertheless, I use standard way of handling form
fields :

<input type="text" name="url" value="$data.parameters.url">

I'm using value="$data.parameters.url", thus field value would be populated
with previous value in case of reviewing form page due to validation
exception. Everything works fine except I dunno how to set elegantly initial
field value ? In case above, I would like to be 'http://' value since it is
URL field. Can somebody point me the way ?

Regards,
Vjeran


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