Question

Dynamic form processing in struts

Asked by: anilgalve

Hi all,
 I need your help regarding dynamic form elements processing & validations.

Here is my JSP Script,

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<%@ taglib uri="/WEB-INF/struts-html.tld" prefix="html"%>
<%@ taglib uri="/WEB-INF/struts-bean.tld" prefix="bean"%>
<html:html>
<HEAD>
<%@ page language="java" contentType="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"
      pageEncoding="ISO-8859-1"%>
<TITLE>Processing Dynamic Forms</TITLE>

<script type="text/javascript">
//function which adds new row
function AddRow()
{
      tb=document.getElementById("demo");
      // attach counter
      lnrows = tb.rows.length;
      //alert(lnrows);
      newrow = tb.insertRow(lnrows);
      
      var fourth_col = "amt"+lnrows;
      cell3=newrow.insertCell(0);
      cell3.innerHTML="<center><input type='text' id='"+fourth_col+"' name='"+fourth_col+"' size='10'/></center>";
      
      document.getElementById("cntr").value = lnrows;
}

// function to delete row
function DeleteRow()
{
      tb=document.getElementById("demo");
      lnrows = tb.rows.length;
      //alert(lnrows);
      if(lnrows > 2)
      {
            tb.deleteRow(lnrows-1);
            document.getElementById("cntr").value = tb.rows.length - 1;
      }
}
</script>
</HEAD>

<BODY>
<html:form action="/dynaActions">
<TABLE id='demo' align='center' width='80%' border='1'>
<TR>
      <TH width='25%'>Party Name</TH>
</TR>
<TR>
      <TD align='center'><input type='text' id="party1" name="party1" size="30" /></TD>
</TR>
</TABLE>


<TABLE align='center' width='80%' border='0'>
<TR align="right">
<td>

      <html:button property="Add" value="Add" onclick="AddRow();" ></html:button>
      <html:button property="Remove"  value="Remove" onclick="DeleteRow();"></html:button>

</td>
</TR>

<TR align="center">
<td>
      <input type='hidden' id="cntr" name="cntr" value="1" />
      <html:submit/>
</td>
</TR>
</TABLE>

</html:form>

</BODY>
</html:html>

  As you seen there is dynamically form elements generated as many as required. Now how do I process this with ActionForm & Action in order to get me all the data properly?

Regards,
Mahesh

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Asked On
2006-12-01 at 07:04:01ID22079201
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dynamic

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Topic

Java Server Pages (JSP)

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Answers

 

by: rama_krishna580Posted on 2006-12-01 at 12:04:18ID: 18056324

Hi,

look at the example(s) here, try looking into all the left side
Struts
Lesson 1
Lesson 2
Lesson 3 ....

http://www.learntechnology.net/struts-lesson-1.do

R.K

 

by: anilgalvePosted on 2006-12-02 at 04:16:13ID: 18059402

Hi rama_krishna580,
  The link which you have given me is just for basic struts. What I want is dynamic Action form bean so as I can get all the values for dynamic generated elements i.e.
  party1, party2, party3, party4, party5, party6 ..................................... upto anything.

 Now these elements are generated on the fly & at client side using javascript hence I can't make use of struts tags, I need to use pure html to generate those elements. All those things have been done already as I posted earlier.

 Now I have to process above form using struts framework.
 I hope it clears now.

Regards,
AG
 
 

 

 

by: jaggernatPosted on 2006-12-02 at 08:44:30ID: 18060105

To get all values from the input field,you have to use a DynaValidatorForm in struts-config like this

<form-beans>
<form-bean name="FORMBEANNAME" type="org.apache.struts.validator.DynaValidatorForm">
    <form-property name="party1" type="java.lang.String"/>
<form-bean>
</form-beans>
 
<action
        path="/getQuotes"
        type="com.kainos.quickquotes.struts.QQGetQuotesAction"
        name="FORMBEANNAME"
        parameter="save"
        scope="session">
        <forward name="success" path="/pages/jsp/result.jsp"/>
        <forward name="back" path="/userform1.do"/>
 </action>



If you are trying to get a bunch of elemets in a list , do this
 
<form-bean name="FORMBEANNAME" type="org.apache.struts.validator.DynaValidatorForm">
    <form-property name="partyList" type="java.util.List"/>
<form-bean>

 

by: anilgalvePosted on 2006-12-04 at 22:53:09ID: 18074712

Hi jaggernat,
 Thanks for reply.
 As you said, to track bunch of elements I need to make use of list. That seems good.
 Can you send me code regarding this. I never done such things.
 As you can see the number of elements are not fixed they can be as much as user wants to create.
 I need to check again the elements should not be empty.
 Pls send me some example code which give me more clear picture.

 Thanks & Regards,
  Ag    

 

by: jaggernatPosted on 2006-12-05 at 17:13:08ID: 18081641

doesnt have to be List. Can also be an array like this <form-property name="name" type="java.lang.String[]"/>


look at these examples


http://www.developer.com/java/ejb/article.php/3321521

http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=717030&messageID=4141686

 

by: anilgalvePosted on 2006-12-21 at 04:56:09ID: 18179879

Thanks for links.
  But can you tell me how do I process using String[] array.
For example if I go with party[1], party[2], party[3],.......................etc.

How do I process it. Give me some sample code. Again I need to validate them as well.

 

by: jaggernatPosted on 2007-01-04 at 14:28:32ID: 18247454

>>>>>How do I process it
the link i gave you clearly explains this .
this is how you process an array elements in your action class


DynaValidatorForm df = (DynaValidatorForm) form;  
Person[] p = (Person[]) df.get("people");
for (int i = 0; i < p.length; i++)
 {
//iterate through the array values and do something
 }
 

 

by: anilgalvePosted on 2007-01-10 at 02:43:39ID: 18282852

This will be done serverside validation, but If I need to make use of validation.xml, how should I proceed?

 

by: jaggernatPosted on 2007-01-10 at 16:42:24ID: 18289341

go through this article (page1 and page2). it  explains how you have to use validation.xml

http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2002/12/11/jakartastruts.html?page=1

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