Regarding form property as array

[krish chaitu]

Hi,

I have some basic question like
can i have a form bean having setters & getters for a firstname textfield on the screen with each text field has different property name for example like
first text box will have firstname ,second will have firstname1 etc for 10 text boxes & i want all this to be in array
can i define something like
public void setFirstName(String[] firstName){}

public String[] getFirstName(){}

Please help in this problem,

i need to figure out how i can make this working

Thanks
krish

[Ben Souther]

If they all have the same name, you can retrieve them as an array with request.getPropertyValues.

See:
http://java.sun.com/j2ee/1.4/docs/api/javax/servlet/http/HttpServletRequest.html

[krish chaitu]

hi,

my problem is with the user entry .so i have in my entry screen for user to enter contact information & i have 5 contact informations for the user to enter ,so instead of having 15 first name setters & getters properties , i want to find some easiest solution to make the form bean not to have too many setters & getters.

so can i know how i can make the form bean proeprty to have all this 15 firstnames with one setter & getter methods.

Please help me out in this issue, iam already in big trouble to sort it.


Thanks
krish

[Ben Souther]

Consider representing this as a list of beans.