<c:forEach var = "student" items="${result}">
<tr>
<th>${student.name}</th>
<th>Notify</th>
</tr>
</c:forEach>
This is my output.jsp. Notice that I've put a link "Notify" to forward it on display.jsp. But I'm not sure how to display a record of student.name onto my display.jsp 's textbox. Thanks
You have to pass the student name over to the display.jsp (e.g. using a GET parameter).
Modify your link as follows:
<th>Notify</th>
Inside your display.jsp your textbox may look like this:
<input type="text" name="studentName" value="${param['studentName']}" />
Related
Im trying to get the values of some td elements where the data consist of data from MySQL table. It displays the data fine in my browser (e.g. if i change type from "hidden" to "submit"), but when I try to get the value i only get null.
Here are my jsp and it displays the correct results in the browser.
<td>
<form action="history.jsp" method="get">
<input type="hidden" name="res" value="<%=his.getRes()%>"/>
</form>
</td>
When i try to print the values however, I only get "null" at of evey :
<%
String res = request.getParameter("res");
System.out.print(res);
%>
I'm still very new, so it's proberly a straight forward answer. Thank you in advance for the help.
I suggest that you change the name of your variable :
String newname = request.getParameter("res");
System.out.println(newname)
One can submit (=send) only one <form>. So one must assume there is just one single td with one <form>. Forms also may not be nested in an outer form.
It need some way to submit the form.
So experiment first with:
<td>
<form action="history.jsp" method="get">
<input type="text" name="res" value="<%=his.getRes()%>"/>
<input type="submit" value="Send"/>
</form>
</td>
This will show whether his.getRes() yielded something. And allows a manual submit in the browser.
I have a table that is dynamically created that has rows of movies.
It has a title column,
a media type column,
a rating column,
and a column that contains a "view" button.
When one of these view buttons is clicked,
I would like to go to a page that contains all the details of that movie by sending the title to the controller so I can query for it in mySql.
The problem is that for all these buttons,
the value is always going to be "view".
So my solution is to make the name of the button different as shown in the code below (this is the raw html generated from the jsp):
<html>
<body>
<form action="someAction">
<table>
<tr>
<th>title</th>
<th>type</th>
<th>rating</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>title1</td>
<td>DVD</td>
<td>R</td>
<td><input type="submit" name="mediaType.title1" value="view"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>title2</td>
<td>DVD</td>
<td>R</td>
<td><input type="submit" name="mediaType.title2" value="view"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>title3</td>
<td>BLU-RAY</td>
<td>PG-13</td>
<td><input type="submit" name="mediaType.title3" value="view"></td>
</tr>
</table>
</form>
</body>
</html>
I could then use a parameterMap to figure out which view was pressed.
That is messy and Spring has to have some way of being able to do this.
I thought something like this would work in the controller:
#RequestMapping("someAction", params = "mediaType.{title}=view")
public ModelAndView loadPage(String title) {
// use title to query mysql
// build Model
// return ModelAndView
}
However this doesn't work.
Is there something that I can use in Spring that would be simpler and cleaner like above instead of getting the parameterMap from the request?
If I'm understanding this correctly, you have rows of information organized into a table. You're looping through some kind of collection, which has the side effect of making each input field have similar 'name' attributes. As a result, it's difficult to determine which input fields you really care about. You've then chosen to use the button as an identifier (presumably, because only the one button you actually click on get's added to the request -all the others don't get submitted) to determine which 'row', and subsequent input fields.
I think this might all come down to which 'button' you're using. If you're using a literal input tag (type="submit" or "button") the 'value' attribute is what the user sees as the text on the button -so, you're forced to play shenanigans with the 'name' attribute (presumably by adding an index to the name, splitting the string once you get it out of the request, and using that identifier to get the other parameters out of the request that also have the same identifier appended to their 'name' attribute).
JSP
<input type="submit" name="view${varStatus.index}" value="View" />
HTML Source
<input type="submit" name="view3" value="View">
You should probably use the button tag instead. It allows the text that the user sees to be different than the value that is submitted in the request.
JSP
<button type="submit" name="view" value="${varStatus.index}" >View</button>
HTML Source
<button type="submit" name="view" value="3">View</button>
This gives you the 'identifier' for the row.
How Spring fits into this:
I played with the #RequestMapping and the #RequestParam annotations, and was unable to get Spring to give me the values directly into the controller. But, I was able to do it by writing a custom HandlerMethodArgumentResolver along with a custom annotation.
note: I'm using annotations and java config instead of xml config, AND probably more importantly -this was a quick and dirty example to get it working. adjust it as needed for your situation.
HandlerMethodArgumentResolver
Annotation
Controller method
Instead of putting the table inside one form, you could put multiple forms inside the table, in the TRs:
<tr>
<form action="someAction">
<td>title1<input type='hidden' name='title' value='title1' /></td>
<td>DVD</td>
<td>R</td>
<td><input type="submit" value="view"></td>
</form>
</tr>
Then each title has its own form and you send in the title (always with parameter name of title) from a hidden input.
The solution lies in this statement:
"I have a table that is dynamically created that has rows of movies".
Presumably,
you are looping through a list of movies and generating the table in the jsp file and each row has some unique identifier.
Add a hidden to identify the selected row.
Set the value of the hidden value in an onclick handler from the submit buttons.
Here is some example stuff:
<form ...>
<c:forEach blah var="row">
<tr>
...
<td><input type="submit" value="View" onclick="setSelectedRow('${row.id}')"/></td>
</c:forEach>
<input type="hidden" id="blammy" name="blammy" value=""/>
</form>
<script type="text/javascript">
function setSelectedRow(rowId)
{
... set blammy.value equal to rowId.
}
</script>
// the id is used by JavaScript to find the object in the DOM.
// the name is what appears in the request.
#RequestMapping("someAction")
public ModelAndView loadPage(
#RequestParameter("blammy") final String blammy)
{
...
}
I currently have the following code and the data is displayed fine.
<logic:iterate name="myList" id="product" indexId="iteration" type="com.mycompany.MyBean">
<tr>
<td> <bean:write name="product" property="weight"/> </td>
<td> <bean:write name="product" property="sku"/> </td>
<td> <bean:write name="product" property="quantity"/> </td>
</tr>
</logic:iterate>
But now I need to make the "quantity" part modifiable. The user should be able to update that field, press submit and when its sent to the server, "myList" should automatically update with the new quantities.
I've tried searching for help on this but all I keep finding is examples on how to display data only, not modify it. Any help would be appreciated.
So this is tricky, because there are many things to get done in order for it to work. First, declare your tags inside the iterator with the html tags, with attribute INDEXED=TRUE and an ID DIFFERENT THAN THE NAME, i also took out the "indexId" attribute to use the simple "index" word for the index:
<logic:iterate name="myList" id="myListI" type="com.mycompany.MyBean">
<tr>
<td> <html:input name="myListI" property="weight" indexed="true"/> </td>
<td> <html:input name="myListI" property="sku" indexed="true"/> </td>
<td> <html:input name="myListI" property="quantity" indexed="true"/> </td>
</tr>
after that, in order for struts to be able to get and set the attributes of your beans, you need to declare EXTRA get and set methods inside your collection object, using the name you wrote in the id of the iterate tag. In this case, you would write 2 extra get and set methods for the "myListI" :
public void setMyListI(int index, myBean value){
this.myList.add(value);
}
public myBean getMyListI(int index){
return this.myList.get(index);
}
I think Th0rndikes answer is mostly correct. My implementation is slightly different, so it might be worth trying this as well.
Form
private List<Parameter> activeParameters;
public List<Parameter> getActiveParameters() {
return activeParameters;
}
public Parameter getParam(int index){
return this.activeParameters.get(index);
}
JSP
<logic:iterate name="MyForm" property="activeParameters" id="param">
<tr>
<td><bean:write name="param" property="prompt"/></td>
<td><html:text name="param" property="value" indexed="true"/></td>
</tr>
</logic:iterate>
In summary, I didn't use Type in the iterate tag, using the property tag instead. In the bean adding a getter with matched the name of the iterate ID in the JSP (param) with an index as a method parameter did the trick.
Take a look at this: http://wiki.apache.org/struts/StrutsCatalogLazyList
Indexed Properties
Struts html tags have an indexed attribute which will generate the
appropriate html to populate a collection of beans when the form is
submitted. The trick is to name the id attribute to the same as the
indexed property.
For example the following jsp...
<logic:iterate name="skillsForm" property="skills" id="skills">
<html:text name="skills" property="skillId" indexed="true"/>
</logic:iterate>
...will generate the following html
<input type="text" name="skills[0].skillId value="..."/>
<input type="text" name="skills[1].skillId value="..."/>
....
<input type="text" name="skills[n].skillId value="..."/>
When the form is submitted BeanUtils will first call the
getSkills(index) method to retrieve the indexed bean followed by
setSkillId(..) on the retrieved bean.
Theoretically, the indexed attribute of the struts html tags could be used for this:
Valid only inside of logic:iterate tag. If true then name of the html tag will be rendered as "id[34].propertyName". Number in brackets will be generated for every iteration and taken from ancestor logic:iterate tag.
But, there is no corresponding indexed attribute on the html:errors tag, which limits its usefulness. Also, the required combination of id, name and property attributes can be rather confusing.
I found it easier to use jsp scriptlets to generate the property name including the iteration index. The following code requires that your form has a string array property "quantity".
<% int idx=0; %>
<logic:iterate ...>
<html:text property='<%= "quantity[" + idx + "]" %>'/>
<html:errors property='<%= "quantity[" + idx + "]" %>'/>
<% i++; %>
</logic:iterate>
I have a button on my .jsp page that I would like to act as a hyperlink, taking users to a particular webpage when clicked. I've got the following code in my .jsp (It's part of a table):
<td><input name="instructionURL" value="<%= StringEscapeUtils.escapeHtml("" + (psi.getInstructionURL()))%>" />
<input type="button" value="Go to link" onclick="location.href='psi.getInstructionURL()'" /></td>
The value of the neighboring table cell correctly displays the variable in question (psi.getInstructionURL()) but a similar call does not work as anticipated for the button's 'onclick' function. Rather, it sends the user from "http://localhost:8080/home/foo" to "http://localhost:8080/home/psi.getInstructionURL()" instead of, as I had hoped, going to the actual webpage (let's say stackoverflow.com). Can I do this with a button, or should I just look into creating a normal link?
If the latter, I'm still looking for a way to ensure that the link goes to the proper, variable, URL rather than the same place irrespective of the current value of psi.getInstructionURL().
psi.getInstructionURL() seems to be server side call and therefore you will have to use <% %> to write into onclick handler like,
<input type="button" value="Go to link" onclick="location.href='<%=psi.getInstructionURL()%>'" /></td>
The code is wrong. This is ok:
<td><input name="instructionURL" value="<%= StringEscapeUtils.escapeHtml("" + (psi.getInstructionURL()))%>" />
<input type="button" value="Go to link" onclick="location.href='<%=psi.getInstructionURL()%>'" /></td>
I'm working in a very simple and small web application, it is a jsp that handles a shopping cart.
What I do at this point is to iterate through all the products that are stored in the car and add them one by one to the jsp with each iteration.
This is the code that adds a row to the jsp in each iteration:
<tr>
<td>
<input type=text name=Quantity value=<%=quantity%>>
</td>
<td>
<input type=text name=id value=<%=id%>>
</td>
<td>
<input type=submit value="Delete" onclick=<%CustomSubmit(request, id); %>>
</td>
</tr>
As you can see I add to the end of each row a submit type control with a custom method for handling Click events, the use of this control is to remove from the car the respective product.
The problem that I have is that when I click in the delete button of a product, the id that is passed to the CustomSubmit(...) method is not the id of the product that I'm trying to remove but the id of the last product added to the jsp.
So, my question is how can I get the correct id from the item that I'm trying to remove?
The way i use to do it is as follows:
Replace
<input type=submit with a button
<input type="button" value="Delete" onclick="deleteIt('yourid');" />
add the deleteIt javascript function, in the function you fill a hidden input field with the id.
Then submit the page and the correct id gets passed to your page
Little sidenote its always prudent to escape all your Strings
dont use <input type=submit but use <input type="submit"
maybe like
<td>
<input type="text" name="id" value="<%=id%>">
</td>
<td>
<input type="button" value="Delete" onclick="deleteItem('<%=id%>')">
</td>
I assume your cart is a list of objects, each having the attributes id and quantity. So I would expect you code to look something like this (noting Peter's answer about using a 'button'):
<input type="button" value="Delete" onclick="CustomSubmit('<%=cartItem.id%>');"/>
I'm not entirely sure what you are trying to do with the 'request' parameter in your original code but if this is the HTTP request all you will get when you try to write it to the JSP is the result of the request.toString method.