Question

I have an HTML select box in my JSP page that allows multiple selections.

<form action="resources" method="post" >
    <select name="frmSelectedResources" multiple="multiple">
        <option value="1">Bill</option>
        <option value="3">Kathy</option>
        <option value="18">Mike</option>
    </select>
</form> 

In my Java servlet I can get the values of the select resources with:

String[] assignedResources = request.getParameterValues("frmSelectedResources");

Which give me a string array of 1,3,18. But how can I retrieve the text for each of these values?

I need to get back something like this: (1,Bill), (3, Kathy), (18, Mike)

What I’m trying to do is rebuild the Selected Resource list when I’m doing forms validation and the user made a data entry error elsewhere on the form.

Thanks in advance for any help or suggestions.

Answer 1

You can’t receive it from request parameter (unless you explicitly set it), Browser only sends the value of select item not the label, it uses label just to display

Have a map that resolves label from value received