Example of struts:iterate ?

[Stanley Santiago <st...@netscape.com>]

I looked up struts:iterate in the Struts Tag Lib docs but was unable to
grasp the usage of this tag.

Could someone point me to an example of this tag that iterates thru an
ArrayList object; each member
of the array is of String type. The output should be the members of the
ArrayList object

TIA,
Stan

Re: Example of struts:iterate ?

["Craig R. McClanahan" <Cr...@eng.sun.com>]

Stanley Santiago wrote:

> I looked up struts:iterate in the Struts Tag Lib docs but was unable to
> grasp the usage of this tag.
>
> Could someone point me to an example of this tag that iterates thru an
> ArrayList object; each member
> of the array is of String type. The output should be the members of the
> ArrayList object
>

Assume your ArrayList full of Strings is available as a bean named "items",
and you want to list the contents of this array as an unordered list.  You
might do something like this:

    <ul>
    <struts:iterate id="item" name="items">
    <li><%= item %></li>
    </struts:iterate>
    </ul>

If the ArrayList was actually returned as the value of a bean property, it
would be slightly different.  For example, let's say you are doing a Chat
system that maintains a list of the user's favorite rooms, so the user
object has a getFavorites() method that returns an ArrayList (it works
equally well if the return value is a String array or an Iterator):

    <ul>
    <struts:iterate id="item" name="user" property="favorites">
    <li><%= item %></li>
    </ul>


> TIA,
> Stan

Craig

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