Question

All –

I’m using stripes to do some form input for a problem I’m working on and I’m stuck on how best to submit a a pair of data using stripes and checkboxes.. for example my page looks like the following:

I have a list of options where users can enable a selection by clicking the box, and also supply some input for that item by entering data into the text field next to it:

<tr>
<td><stripes:checkbox name="item.enable" value="${item.id}"/></td>
<td><stripes:text name="item.value" value="${item.value}"/></td>
</tr>
.....
next item...

When the form is submitted I’d expect my Collection<Item> to be populated yet that’s not the case..

How can I best submit a pair of items using the check box fields.

Thanks in advance.

..Chris

Answer 1

Read the documentation on indexed properties. You need to tell Stripes that you have multiple items, by naming them items[0], items[1], etc.:

<tr>
  <td><stripes:checkbox name="items[0].enable" value="${item.id}"/></td>
  <td><stripes:text name="items[0].value" value="${item.value}"/></td>
</tr>
<tr>
  <td><stripes:checkbox name="items[1].enable" value="${item.id}"/></td>
  <td><stripes:text name="items[1].value" value="${item.value}"/></td>
</tr>

This supposes that you action bean has a setItems(List<Item> items) method, that the Item class has a public no-arg constructor, and has a setEnable(String itemId) and a setValue(String value) method.