struts problem

MiCr0

hi all,
i've got a question from a friend - any thoughts apprecieated.

I have an Struts ActionForm called, say, "MyForm". My jsp page contains the following code:

<!

---

MyPage.jsp

---

>
....
<bean:define id="myForm" name="myForm" type="MyForm"/>
<%
//This Collection contains "Status" objects that implement "KeyValuePair" interface
Collection statusList = myForm.getStatusList();
long currentStatus = myForm.getCurrentStatus();
pageContext.setAttribute( "statusList", statusList );
%>

<html:select property="statusId" styleClass="dropDown" value="???????">
<html:options collection="statusList" property="statusId" labelProperty="status"/>
</html:select>
....
<!

---

End MyPage.jsp

---

>

I want the select list to display whatever the current status is as the default value, using the "selected" attribute of the option tag. I know that you can set this with a literal string value, using the value="" attribute of the <html:select> tag (see above).
This isn't any use to me though, as I must read the status from the database using the myForm.getCurrentStatus() method and assign it dynamically.

Do you any way to do this?

Harry Lime

From what I remeber I think that is works like this...

<html:select property="status">
<html: options property="statuses"/>
</html:select>

where your ActionForm has a method getStatus() which returns the current status, and a method getStatuses() which returns an array of possible values.

Sorry that I can't be more precise, but I think that's it.