Populating drop-down box in JSP using bean

[DKL01]

Hi,

I have a drop-down box in my JSP page and need to populate this control by the values returned
by method defined in bean class. I'm not sure about the syntax in JSP side. I really appreciate any suggestions.
Thanks


package business;

public class Common {
private String[] items = { "09/09/2002", "09/10/2002" , "09/11/2002" };


public String[] getPeriodEnding() {
return (items);
}

}

 

[ianhunter]

Unless you want lots of Java code in your JSPs, you need to develop an iterating tag. For example,

<select name=&quot;whatever&quot;>
<jsp:useBean id=&quot;newPeriod&quot; scope=&quot;session&quot;/>
<app:iterate id=&quot;thisPeriod&quot; array=&quot;newPeriod&quot;/>
<option><jsp:getProperty name=&quot;thisPeriod&quot; property=&quot;value&quot;/>
</app:iterate>
</select>

...to do that, you'd need to learn how to extend BodyTagSupport to build your own tags, and set up a TLD for your application. Short of that, the quick-n-dirty version would look something like this:


<select name=&quot;whatever&quot;>
<%
String[] period = getPeriodEnding();
for (int i = 0; i < period.length(); i++) {
%>
<option><%= period %>
<%
}
%>
</select>

Ian