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How can this be done better (html:link)

 
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Adding unique params to the url.
I am getting a list from the database and making the primary keys links so that a individual record from the db can be used.
I can quite easily display the rows using html:link tags (not shown) but I have been having trouble adding the dynamic unique param to the end of the url.(simple stuff but seems tricky in struts).
Links would look like:
/iNet/execute/viewSelectedNews?newsId=1
/iNet/execute/viewSelectedNews?newsId=2
/iNet/execute/viewSelectedNews?newsId=n
This is my current working solution. But its not ideal.
The Collection holds NewsVO objects.
It only has a single field for simplicty (newsId).
Can some liet me know if there is a way to lose the scriptlet code?

Thanks in advance.
 
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Try something like this:

One thing to note is that the value returned from your collection, what we refer to as "news" in the id property of the iterate tag, needs to be a String in order to be referenced by the paramName property of <html:link>.
 
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You can do soimething like thuis
<bean efine id="nid" name="NewsVO" property="newsId" />
Then,
<html:link page="="/iNet/execute/viewSelectedNews" paramId="newsId" paramName="nid" >View</html:link>
 
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Jason
Your solution doesn't quite work.
The resulting URL is as follows:
http://blab-blah/execute/viewSelectedNews?clinton.inet.news.NewsVO@1adfbe3
The NewsVO class newsId is of type Long, but it returns a String.
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Manasa
Your solution doesn't produce any output.
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Thanks both of you.
Any more suggestions?
 
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Are you sure the NewsVO class is overriding the toString() method properly? Looks to me like it is using the standard toString method from Object.
Like Jason said, the paramName attribute has to be a String, so you need to either return the value you want from the toString method or create a getter for the value and access it as a property.
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[ December 09, 2003: Message edited by: Eric Fletcher ]
 
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The NewsVO class is doing this:

Do you see a problem?
Thanks
 
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IGNORE PREVIOUS MSG _TYPO - THIS ONE IS CORRECT
The NewsVO class is doing this:

Do you see a problem?
Thanks
 
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Try this then:
 
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Woohoo.
Thanks Jason. Beers on me.
 
Don't get me started about those stupid light bulbs.
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