invoking an action from a JSP page

[Gaurav Pawar]

Hi all,
I have a struts application. To invoke this app i type a url manually into the browser.

The URLs look like these
http://localhost:8080/MyAction.do?id=1&q=how are you?&indx=3 (enter data)
http://localhost:8080/MyAction.do?id=2&indx=3 (retieve data)

Till now to check if the application is running fine i used to directly type in the URL in the browser.

Now i wish to write a JSP page for the same.

The issue is--> i will be having a jsp page with textfields for 'q' and 'indx'
but if i click button1 the value for 'id' should be 1 and button2 should result in 'id=2'

Can someone please help me/suggest the exact approach to this? How do i generate these urls so that they are fired from the browser and then invoke the action?.....(jsp example?)

This will be my first complete struts application if i succeed

Thanks in advance.
Regards,
Gaurav.

[Bear Bibeault]

Sounds like a little touch of JavaScript to format the URLs on the button clicks is all that you need.

[Gaurav Pawar]

Can you suggest any good references/examples??

[vishwanath nadimpally]

Originally posted by gkpawar Pawar:
Can you suggest any good references/examples??

Have both your buttons call a javascript function passing the id as param, like this

<form name="someForm" id="someForm" action="" method="POST">   
<input type="button" id="button1" value="Button 1" onclck="send(this);">
<input type="button" id="button2" value="Button 2" onclck="send(this);">
</form>
 
In your javascript function figure out which button was clicked, get the form values for your textfields 'q' and 'indx', build an url dynamically and forward.
 
function send(btn) {
var url = "";
if (btn.id == "button1") {
url = "";//build url1
}
if (btn.id == "button2") {
url = ""; //build url2
}
document.someForm.action = url;
document.someForm.submit();
}