Apache Struts API Documentation: Class OptionsCollectionTag

org.apache.struts.taglib.html Class OptionsCollectionTag

java.lang.Object
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  +--javax.servlet.jsp.tagext.TagSupport
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        +--org.apache.struts.taglib.html.OptionsCollectionTag

All Implemented Interfaces:

java.io.Serializable, javax.servlet.jsp.tagext.Tag

Direct Known Subclasses:

NestedOptionsCollectionTag

public class OptionsCollectionTag

extends javax.servlet.jsp.tagext.TagSupport

Tag for creating multiple <select> options from a collection. The collection may be part of the enclosing form, or may be independent of the form. Each element of the collection must expose a 'label' and a 'value', the property names of which are configurable by attributes of this tag.

The collection may be an array of objects, a Collection, an Enumeration, an Iterator, or a Map.

NOTE - This tag requires a Java2 (JDK 1.2 or later) platform.

Since:

Struts 1.1

Version:

$Rev: 56513 $ $Date: 2004-11-03 19:20:47 +0000 (Wed, 03 Nov 2004) $

See Also:

Serialized Form

messages

protected static MessageResources messages

The message resources for this package.

filter

protected boolean filter

Should the label values be filtered for HTML sensitive characters?

label

protected java.lang.String label

The name of the bean property containing the label.

name

protected java.lang.String name

The name of the bean containing the values collection.

property

protected java.lang.String property

The name of the property to use to build the values collection.

style

private java.lang.String style

The style associated with this tag.

styleClass

private java.lang.String styleClass

The named style class associated with this tag.

value

protected java.lang.String value

The name of the bean property containing the value.

OptionsCollectionTag

public OptionsCollectionTag()

getFilter

public boolean getFilter()

setFilter

public void setFilter(boolean filter)

getLabel

public java.lang.String getLabel()

setLabel

public void setLabel(java.lang.String label)

getName

public java.lang.String getName()

setName

public void setName(java.lang.String name)

getProperty

public java.lang.String getProperty()

setProperty

public void setProperty(java.lang.String property)

getStyle

public java.lang.String getStyle()

setStyle

public void setStyle(java.lang.String style)

getStyleClass

public java.lang.String getStyleClass()

setStyleClass

public void setStyleClass(java.lang.String styleClass)

getValue

public java.lang.String getValue()

setValue

public void setValue(java.lang.String value)

doStartTag

public int doStartTag()
               throws javax.servlet.jsp.JspException

Process the start of this tag.

Overrides:

doStartTag in class javax.servlet.jsp.tagext.TagSupport

Throws:

javax.servlet.jsp.JspException - if a JSP exception has occurred

release

public void release()

Release any acquired resources.

Overrides:

release in class javax.servlet.jsp.tagext.TagSupport

addOption

protected void addOption(java.lang.StringBuffer sb,
                         java.lang.String label,
                         java.lang.String value,
                         boolean matched)

Add an option element to the specified StringBuffer based on the specified parameters.

Note that this tag specifically does not support the styleId tag attribute, which causes the HTML id attribute to be emitted. This is because the HTML specification states that all "id" attributes in a document have to be unique. This tag will likely generate more than one option element element, but it cannot use the same id value. It's conceivable some sort of mechanism to supply an array of id values could be devised, but that doesn't seem to be worth the trouble.

Parameters:

sb - StringBuffer accumulating our results

value - Value to be returned to the server for this option

label - Value to be shown to the user for this option

matched - Should this value be marked as selected?

getIterator

protected java.util.Iterator getIterator(java.lang.Object collection)
                                  throws javax.servlet.jsp.JspException

Return an iterator for the options collection.

Parameters:

collection - Collection to be iterated over

Throws:

javax.servlet.jsp.JspException - if an error occurs