I have built a wicket component that contains input/labels and methods to change presentation (required, enabled, etc.). The components render fine, but what happens is when the form submits I see only 1 form parameter ‘input’, and it’s the last InputRow component.
InputRow.html
<html xmlns:wicket="http://wicket.apache.org">
<head>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style.css"/>
</head>
<body>
<wicket:panel>
<label wicket:id="label">abc: <span class="req">*</span></label>
<span class="input">
<input wicket:id="input" type="text" id="name"></input>
</span>
<span wicket:id="input_feedback"></span>
</wicket:panel>
</body>
</html>
InputRow.java
package com.wicket;
import org.apache.wicket.behavior.AttributeAppender;
import org.apache.wicket.feedback.FeedbackMessage;
import org.apache.wicket.markup.html.basic.Label;
import org.apache.wicket.markup.html.form.TextField;
import org.apache.wicket.markup.html.panel.Panel;
import org.apache.wicket.model.Model;
public class InputRow extends Panel{
@SuppressWarnings("unused")
private String id;
public InputRow(String id, String label) {
super(id);
this.id = id;
Label memberIdLabel = new Label("label",label);
memberIdLabel.setEscapeModelStrings(false)
.add(new AttributeAppender("for", new Model<String>(id),""));
add(memberIdLabel);
TextField<String> name = new TextField<String>("input");
name.setType(String.class)
.setMarkupId(id)
.setOutputMarkupId(true);
add(name);
add(new Label("input_feedback",""));
}
public InputRow disable()
{
get("input")
.setEnabled(false)
.add(new AttributeAppender("class", new Model<String>("disabled"),""));
get("label")
.add(new AttributeAppender("class", new Model<String>("disabled"),""));
return this;
}
public InputRow required()
{
Model model = (Model)get("label").getInnermostModel();
StringBuffer label = new StringBuffer((String)model.getObject());
label.append(" <span class=\"req\">*</span>");
model.setObject(label);
((TextField)get("input")).setRequired(true);
return this;
}
@Override
protected void onBeforeRender() {
super.onBeforeRender();
Label feedback = (Label)get("input_feedback");
if (get("input").getFeedbackMessage() != null)
{
feedback.setDefaultModel(new Model<String>("Required"));
}
}
}
Adding to the form component
add(new InputRow("name","Name:").required());
edit
I didn’t set up a ListView or repeater since I know what rows / fields I want to add to the form at build time.
Your InputFields are missing their models. This way, wicket doesn’t know where to store the formdata. If you add models to the fields they will be populated automatically.