I am having issues populating a List of User defined object attributes in Struts2.
Here is my example (getters / setters ommitted):
public class Foo { private String attr1; private String attr2;
}
public class Bar { private List foos; }
public class StrutsAction extends ActionSupport { private Bar bar; }
I have code in JSP as follows (extract):
<tr><td><input type="text" name="bar.foos.attr1"/></td><td><input type="text" name="bar.foos.attr2"</td></tr>
<tr><td><input type="text" name="bar.foos.attr1"/></td><td><input type="text" name="bar.foos.attr2"</td></tr>
I need each table row to create 1 foo item in the List with each attribute, however my code creats a new foo object for each attribute when passed through and I end up with 4 foos rather than 2!
I understand I can solve the problem with hard coding the Index into the html as follows:
<tr><td><input type="text" name="bar.foos[0].attr1"/></td><td><input type="text" name="bar.foos[0].attr2"</td></tr>
<tr><td><input type="text" name="bar.foos[1].attr1"/></td><td><input type="text" name="bar.foos[1].attr2"</td></tr>
I was wondering if it can be done without hard coding the Indexes?
I think you can use the Struts 2 iterator tag:
<s:iterator var="foo" value="bar.foos">
<tr><td><s:property value="attr1"/> .....
</s:iterator>
If it does not work, we can think in other solution.
You can find more information here: http://struts.apache.org/2.3.1/docs/iterator.html
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You said you have variable number of rows. Let's name it numOfRows... Try to rewrite your example like so:
<table>
<s:iterator status="stat" value="(numOfRows).{ #this }" >
<tr>
<td><input type="text" name="bar.foos[%{#stat.index}].attr1"/></td>
<td><input type="text" name="bar.foos[%{#stat.index}].attr2"/></td>
</tr>
</s:iterator>
</table>
You can find docs about Iterator tag there... Look at the bottom of the page.
If you don't have numOfRows at render phase, then I am afraid the only way to generate textfields is javascript on client side....
[EDIT]
Regarding indexes... You don't have to bother if you have indexes something like this:
<table>
<tr>
<td><input type="text" name="bar.foos[0].attr1"/></td>
<td><input type="text" name="bar.foos[0].attr2"/></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><input type="text" name="bar.foos[3].attr1"/></td>
<td><input type="text" name="bar.foos[3].attr2"/></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><input type="text" name="bar.foos[5].attr1"/></td>
<td><input type="text" name="bar.foos[5].attr2"/></td>
</tr>
</table>
Struts will do the conversion just right... You just have to be aware, that objects who's indexes are missing will be null... So you should filter them out in the action.
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Hello i am passing information in a form and everything runs fine but when i fill out the form it doesnt not pass the information and i am getting this error.
There was an unexpected error (type=Internal Server Error, status=500).
Caused by: org.hibernate.exception.ConstraintViolationException: could not execute statement
Caused by: java.sql.SQLIntegrityConstraintViolationException: Column 'movie_id' cannot be null
the code i am using is as folow:
#PostMapping("/save")
public String save(Movie movie) {
savedMovie.save(movie);
return "redirect:/LatestMovies";
}
And
<form th:action="#{/save}" method="post" >
<p><input type="text" id="movie_id" name="movie_id" value="" /></p>
<p><input type="text" id="movie_name" name="movie_name" value="" /></p>
<p><input type="submit" value="save" /></p>
</form>
i belive all other code is correct becuase if i try to render the db information i have no problem.
Update
This is the complete html code.
<div class="container">
<table class="table table-hover">
<tr>
<th>Id</th>
<th>Name</th>
</tr>
<tr th:each="LatestMovies : ${latestMovies}">
<td th:text="${LatestMovies.id}"></td>
<td th:text="${LatestMovies.movieName}"></td>
<td>
<form th:action="#{/save}" method="post" th:object="${newMovie}">
<p><input type="text" id="movie_id" th:field="*{movie_Id}"/></p>
<p><input type="text" id="movie_name" th:field="*{movie_Name}"/></p>
<p><input type="submit" value="save" /></p>
</form>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
Your controller is expecting a Movie object, but it is receiving something else, which then produces a null Movie object. You need to use th:object in your form in order to correctly send the respective class. First, let's add a new #ModelAttribute to your controller, so that your form can automatically map your Movie object in your form.
Controller
// In order to use th:object in a form, we must be able to map a new entity to that form.
// In this case we return a Movie entity.
#ModelAttribute(value = "newMovie")
public Movie newMovie() {return new Movie();}
Now, let's change your form, so that it actually sends a Movie object.
<form th:action="#{/save}" method="post" th:object="${newMovie}">
<p><input type="text" id="movie_id" th:field="*{movie_id}"/></p>
<p><input type="text" id="movie_name" th:field="*{movie_name}"/></p>
<p><input type="submit" value="save" /></p>
</form>
Note that I also changed the name attribute in your inputs, for th:field. Have in mind that in order for this to work, the name of each field must match exactly the names in your objects.
Update
In case you want to set a default value to your form, without using js and since you can't combine th:field with th:value, you could set the object's attribute in your controller.
#ModelAttribute(value = "newMovie")
public Movie newMovie() {
Movie movie = new Movie();
movie.setName("Test");
return movie;
}
Update 2
If what you want is to put the current iteration of a Thymeleaf list in your form, you can do the following.
<div class="container">
<table class="table table-hover">
<tr>
<th>Id</th>
<th>Name</th>
</tr>
<tr th:each="LatestMovies : ${latestMovies}">
<td th:text="${LatestMovies.id}"></td>
<td th:text="${LatestMovies.movieName}"></td>
<td>
<form th:action="#{/save}" th:object="${LatestMovies}" method="post">
<p><input type="hidden" th:value="*{id}"/></p>
<p><input type="hidden" th:value="*{movieName}"/></p>
<p><input type="submit" value="Submit"/></p>
</form>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
You forgot to mark method param with #RequestBody annotation.
This happens because the movie object you are trying to send from the form to the controller is not mapped properly. This has as a result the constraint of the movie_id you have in your movies table (PK not null I guess) to be violated by trying to insert a not null value into it. If you want the object formed in the frontend page form to be binded in a java object you could try this
front page form
<form:form action="save" modelAttribute="movie" method="POST">
<form:label path = "movie_id"> Movie id</form:label>
<form:input path="movie_id" name="movie_id">
<form:label path = "movie_name"> Movie name</form:label>
<form:input path="movie_name" name="movie_name">
<button type="submit">save</button>
</form:form>
(you should import on your page the springframework form taglib
<%# taglib prefix="form" uri="http://www.springframework.org/tags/form"%>)
Save controller code
#PostMapping("/save")
public String save(#ModelAttribute("movie") Movie movie) {
savedMovie.save(movie);
return "redirect:/LatestMovies";
}
Of course I am assuming that your object has a similar structure like shown below
Movie class
public class Movie{
private String movie_id; // or int or long
private String movie_name;
//getters setters constructors ommitted
}
I am following given link to submit table data to be saved in database
http://viralpatel.net/blogs/spring-mvc-multi-row-submit-java-list/
But the difference between given link and my implementation is that the front-end of link uses JSTL (JSP) while i am using Thymeleaf (HTML)
Below are the files being used
HTML Form :
<form method="POST" th:action="#{/updateAllRules}" th:field="${ruleForm}">
<table>
<thead>
<tr>
<th>S No</th>
<th>Title</th>
<th>Body</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr th:each="ruleModel,iteration : ${allRules}">
<td th:text="${ruleModel.id}"></td>
<td><input type="text" th:name="${'rule'+iteration.index+'.title'}" th:value="${ruleModel.title}"></td>
<td><input type="text" th:name="${'rule'+iteration.index+'.body'}" th:value="${ruleModel.body}"></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<br>
<input type="submit" value="Update All">
</form>
Model Class :
public class Rule {
private Integer id;
private Date timestamp;
private String title;
private String body;
// constructor and Getter/Setters
}
Form Class :
public class RuleForm {
private List<Rule> rule;
public List<Rule> getRule() {
return rule;
}
public void setRule(List<Rule> rule) {
this.rule = rule;
}
}
Controller Method :
#RequestMapping(value = "/updateAllRules", method = RequestMethod.POST)
public String updateAllRules(#ModelAttribute("ruleForm") RuleForm ruleForm) throws IOException
{
System.out.println(ruleForm); // this prints com.web.model.RuleForm#235f9fcb
System.out.println(ruleForm.getRule()); //this prints null
return "redirect:/admin";
}
Please let me know what i am missing.
UPDATE 1:
Made changes as suggested. My new HTML form is as below
<form method="POST" th:action="#{/updateAllRules}" th:object="${ruleForm}">
<table>
<thead>
<tr>
<th>S No</th>
<th>Title</th>
<th>Body</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr th:each="rule,iteration : ${ruleForm}">
<td th:field="*{rule[__${iteration.index}__].id}"></td>
<td><input type="text" th:field="*{rule[__${iteration.index}__].title}"></td>
<td><input type="text" th:field="*{rule[__${iteration.index}__].body}"></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<br>
<input type="submit" value="Update All">
</form>
On making these changes following exception is being received when the page loads.
org.springframework.expression.spel.SpelEvaluationException: EL1008E: Property or field 'rule' cannot be found on object of type 'java.util.ArrayList' - maybe not public?
Please see that i am sending original list in model attribute "ruleForm" on page load. Once page loads the data and user make changes , i want to POST complete table back to controller.
Forms should have a th:object, rather than a th:field:
<form method="POST" th:action="#{/updateAllRules}" th:object="${ruleForm}">
Instead of using th:name and th:value, you should instead be using th:field which does both of those for you. Fields also should be specified using the *{...} syntax, which assumes the th:object automatically.
<input type="text" th:field="*{rule[__${iteration.index}__].title}" />
Everything else looks correct to me.
i have the emp.java file with method as
boolean create(int empid,String empname,int supid );
i have the register.jsp page as
<form name="register" action="#" method="post">
<table>
<tr>
<td>Employee Id</td>
<td><input type="text" name="empid"
placeholder="Enter Employee Id " size="30"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Employee Name</td>
<td><input type="text" name="empname"
placeholder="Enter Employee Name " size="30"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Supervisor Id</td>
<td><input type="text" name="sup_id"
placeholder="Enter Supervisor Id" size="30"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2" align="justify"><input type="submit"
value="Submit"></td>
</tr>
</table>
</form>
My requirement is as i click the submit button the emp.create() must be called with the parameters entered in the register.jsp page.... Is there any way to solve this?
What are the necessary things which i have to change so that i can reach my requirement!
or is there any way that i can pass my values to the employee-->create(employee e)
....
{
callableStatement = openConnection().prepareCall("{call insert_employee(?,?,?)}");
callableStatement.setInt(1,employee.getempid());
callableStatement.setString(2,employee.getempname());
callableStatement.setInt(3,employee.getsupid());
}
...
as a object(*) all values when i click submit?
You need a servlet class which will call your emp.java classes' method. The servlet class should work as your action for register.jsp. In the servlet you can do request.getparameter/attribute()and collect the values of input types using their name/id.
Pass these values to either a method or callable anywhere you want to use. If you want to stay on the same jsp after your processing then you need to use ajax.
Add This into the RegisterDao.jsp file
<% Object function_name(call the function of the callable stmt) = new Object();
int empid = Integer.parseInt(request.getParameter("empid"));
String empname = request.getParameter("empname");
int supid = Integer.parseInt(request.getParameter("supid"));
int status = function_name.method(empid, empname, supid);
if (status > 0) {
//out.println("Employee is created");
%>//jsp code to display if he is te employee
<%
session.setAttribute("session", "TRUE");
} else {
out.println("Creation failed");
}
%>
create a bean which should have getter and setter methods of the fields that accepts inputs in the register page
and also inside the bean create your method
boolean create(int empid,String empname,int supid );
now you form action should call a another jsp and it should have these methods in the head
<jsp:useBean id="" class=""></jsp:useBean>
I have the following class that I'm using in my Java with JSP applicaton.
//
public class QuestionBO implements Serializable{
private int questionId;
private int testID;
private String question;
private TutorBO infoAboutTutor;
private SubjectBO infoAboutSubject;
private TestBO infoAboutTest;
private List<AnswerBO> answers;
public QuestionBO() {
}
public QuestionBO(String question) {
this.question = question;
}
getter & setter....
The JSP page has a form where each Question (its String representation) has a checkbox next to it. A user marks some of the questions and submits the form to the server for processing by a servlet.
What is the conventional way of binding the Question objects with the checkboxes so that I could find out what Questions have been selected?
Currently I'm using the following approach for constructing the form:
//
<c:if test="${not empty questionsForSubject}">
<form action="/TutorWebApp/controller" method="POST" name="addQuestionForm">
<input type="hidden" name="command" value="add_question_list" />
<input type="hidden" name="testName" value="${testName}"/>
<table border ="1">
<tbody>
<c:forEach items="${questionsForSubject}" var="question">
<tr>
<td>
<input type="checkbox" name ="choosen_question"
value="${question.getQuestion()}">
${question.getQuestion()}
<br />
</td>
</tr>
</c:forEach>
</tbody>
</table>
<input type="submit" value="Add questions "/>
</form>
And I shouldn't use frameworks.
Thanks
And I have last question
<c:if test="${not empty questionsForSubject}">
<form action="/TutorWebApp/controller" method="POST" name="addQuestionForm">
<input type="hidden" name="command" value="add_question_list" />
<input type="hidden" name="testName" value="${testName}"/>
<input type="hidden" name="questionsForSubject" value="${questionsForSubject}"/>
<table border ="1">
<tbody>
<c:forEach items="${questionsForSubject.keySet()}" var="questionID">
<tr>
<td>
<input type="checkbox" name ="choosen_question" value="${questionID}">
${questionsForSubject.get(questionID).getQuestion()}
<br />
</td>
</tr>
</c:forEach>
</tbody>
</table>
<input type="submit" value="Добавить вопросы"/>
</form>
How I can get map from this page on servlet?
Give each checkbox an unique value. For example, the unique question identifier:
<c:forEach items="${questionsForSubject}" var="question">
<tr>
<td>
<input type="checkbox" name="chosen_question" value="${question.questionId}" />
${question.question}
<br />
</td>
</tr>
</c:forEach>
This way you'll be able to grab all checked values by just the following call in the servlet:
String[] chosenQuestions = request.getParameterValues("chosen_question");
Generate an unique name for each checkbox as follows:
<input type="checkbox" name="${question.questionId}" />
or:
<input type="checkbox" name="choosen_question_${question.questionId}" />
After that, you're already able to identify each checkbox in your servlet
I have a login page with form action of j_security_check. As of now this form just have two fields namely username
and password. I want to add a new dropdown to this form and collect the selected value in controller using
#RequestParam. For some reason I am not able to pass this dropdown value from JSP to my controller as its throwing the
exception: MissingServletRequestParameterException (Which occurs anytime a request param is missing).
In the code below I added the Visuals dropdown. Do I need to use Spring:Bind tag here?
Also on successful login, the control is directed to a controller with request mapping /controller1.html and this is where
I am trying to collect the dropdown value.
<form name="appLogin" action="j_security_check" method="POST">
<table width="100%">
<tr>
<td align="center">
<table>
<tr>
<td>Username: </td>
<td><input id="userName" name="j_username" value=""/></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Password: </td>
<td><input name="j_password" type="password" value="" /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Visual: </td>
<td><Select name="visuals" id="visuals"/>
<option value="S1">S1</option>
<option value="S2">S2</option>
<option value="S3">S3</option>
<option value="S4">S4</option>
</Select>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<table>
<tr>
<td>
<button type="submit" name="submit" value="Sign In">Sign In</button>
<input type="submit"/>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</div>
</div>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</form>
Controller Code:
#RequestMapping( value = " /controller1.html", method = RequestMethod.GET )
public String setupForm( #RequestParam(value = "visuals", required=false) String visuals,
ModelMap model )
{
List<String> studentNames = new ArrayList<String>();
List<String> teacherNames = new ArrayList<String>();
model.addAttribute("someData", teacherNames);
model.addAttribute("anotherData", studentNames);
model.addAttribute("visuals", visuals);
log.info("Role from Dropdown: " + visuals);
return "school/classTen";
}
You need to create yyour own Filter by extending AbstractAuthenticationProcessingFilter
I don't have the entire code in front of my eyes, but the following article could help you:
http://mark.koli.ch/2010/07/spring-3-and-spring-security-setting-your-own-custom-j-spring-security-check-filter-processes-url.html