Form tag library problem

[zeeed]

HI, I'm new to Spring. I have question about form tag library. I want to create jsp page with dynamic created form. In this form will be many form:select tags. Please look at this example (it's not a valid java code, only some idea):

<form:form name="?" method="post"> 

    <c:forEach items="${items}" var="item"> 
         
         <form:select path="?"> 
              <form:options items="${item.value}" /> 
         </form:select> 
         
    </c:forEach>     

</form:form>

my question is, how should I set path value, and how must my bean class looks to bind data from this form. Is it possible?

[viraj]

Hi Seeed,
This is the way how you can use spring form tag lib. Say you have a model object called 'institute' and it has a list named 'subjects' in the view. Then you can use it as follows.

<form:form name="ANYNAME" commandName="institute" method="post"> 
<table>
  <tr>
    <td>Subjects:</td>
    <td><form:select path="subjects" items="${subjects}"/></td>
    <td></td>
  </tr>
</table>
</form:form>

Thats all. You don't need to manually iterate through your list items using jstl core (c) tag lib.

-/Viraj

[zeeed]

Ok, may I have another request? . Could you write or send me link (I can't find it) how I can handle such form (get data from it, after submit)?

[viraj]

Hi Zeed,

I have attached a working sample. (You can build it and deploy using maven 2) or you can look in to that and get an idea about how you can use controllers ,
command object, validators and how you can configure acegi security framework with spring.

It may ask user name and password after deploying.
Username - viraj
password - password
(those are in the WEB-INF/users.properties file)


-/Viraj