Need help to get values from other beans in jsp

[2nice]

I´m using spring2 and Spring-form tags.
In a form tag I want to fill a options list with values from another object(AddUserForm object) than the command object for the form.(User object)
I have created a set of organization objects in my form bean so the user can choose an organization when creating a user.

<bean id="addUserForm" class="AddUserForm">
        <property name="commandName" value="user"/>
        <property name="commandClass" value="User"/>
        <property name="formView" value="userForm"/>
	<property name="successView" value="userRedirect"/>
	<property name="validator" ref="userValidator"/>
	<property name="person" ref="person"/>
        <property name="organizations">
            <set>
               <bean class="Organization">
                   <property name="id" value="40"/>
                   <property name="name" value="test org"/>
               </bean>
            </set>
        </property>
    </bean>

My problem is that I don´t know how to access the addUserForm.organizations set from the jsp-page.

I have tried to do like this and both with and without the spring:bind tag

<tr>
    <td><fmt:message key="person.label.organizations"/> br/>
    <form:select path="organizationId">
        <form:option value="-" label="Select organization"/>
        <spring:bind path="addUserForm.*">
            <form:options items="${addUserForm.organizations}" itemValue="id" itemLabel="name" />
        </spring:bind>
    </form:select></td>
</tr>

what must I do to get access to the addUserForm bean from the JSP page?
The main object for the page is User and that´s the object which get the selected value.

/henrik

[robcos]

Ovveride the method referenceData() to return a map containing the "organizations" array.
You will then be able to acces the organizations like this
<form:options items="${organizations}" .....


See

http://www.springframework.org/docs/...ontroller.html

[Marten Deinum]

You named your form user and in your jsp page you are trying to locate a command with the nameaddUserForm which is obviously not there.

Next you are setting the organizations on your Controller and you cannot access your controller from your jsp page. Everything you want to access has to be either in the formBackingObject or the referenceData. As this is only referenced data (needed to build a list) I would just put in the reference data.

override the referenceData method and place the values in a map.

protected Map referenceData(HttpServletRequest request) throws Exception {
    Map referenceData = new HashMap();
    referenceData.put("organizations", this.organizations);
    return referenceData;		
}

In your code change your tag part to

<form:select path="organizationId">
    <form:option value="-" label="Select organization"/>
    <form:options items="${organizations}" itemValue="id" itemLabel="name" />
</form:select>

and you should be good to go.

Read the chapter about the web-mvc and, forms library and take a look at the samples included with Spring, they provide tons of information.

[2nice]

robcos, thanks for your reply!
I did as you say and I got it to work.
I override the method referenceData in the AddUserForm class:

    
protected java.util.Map referenceData(javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest httpServletRequest) throws java.lang.Exception
    {
        Map myMap = new HashMap();
        myMap.put("organizations", this.getOrganizations() ); 
        return myMap; 
    }

/henrik

[2nice]

Thanks mdeinum for your reply.
As you can se from my former post I could solve my problem by overriding the method referenceData. Now it works very well.
The class User shall not have the variable organization because it´s just a list of values and only one of them will be put in the User object.

/henrik