How to send value recently selected in the url as a param?

[Romina Milano]

Hello! I'm working on a struts2 (2.2.3) web app, using jquery plugin (3.0.0) for ajax.

I have a jsp in which I have one s:select and one sj:autocompleter (the first one for providers and the second one for products). I need to filter the products by the provider selected. In this particular application is a must to have an autocompleter for the second collection.

What I want is to send in the url the value selected in the first select as a parameter so that I'm able to use that selection for filtering the second autocompleter.

Part of my jsp code:

<s:url id="url_products" action="myAction" method="showProducts"> <s:param name="providerSelected" value="%{purchase.provider.id}"></s:param> </s:url> <s:select list="proveedores" value="purchase.provider.id" listKey="id" name="purchase.provider.id" onChangedTopics="providerChanged"/> <sj:autocompleter id="productId" name="productDescription" value="%{productDescription}" listenTopics="providerChanged" href="%{url_products}" />

The problem I'm having is that "%{purchase.provider.id}" is something selected exactly before sending the url_products and when I send the value through the url the value is not updated from the latest selection done.
What I think is that this value is part of the session and since the new selection done for the provider has not been submitted yet to the action, "%{purchase.provider.id}" is just pointing to the value the session is aware of.

I also tried adding the "formIds" property to the autocompleter but it did not solve the issue.

Question: How can I send the value recently selected in "purchaseProviderId" autocompleter through the url as a param? Could I use javascript?

Thanks in advance!

[Bear Bibeault]

Welcome to the Ranch.

Please be sure to ask Struts questions in the Struts forum. I have moved this post there for you.