Split Values in a dropdown list

[vikram karne]

Hi friends

i am stuck with a problem for which i need your help.i will list it out as below.

i am having a dropdown in my jsp page a ComboBox. The values in the dropdown are in the form
After 10 minutes
After 20 minutes
After 30 minutes
Before 5 minutes

Now when the user selects a value in the dropdown list ex. After 10 minutes. This value needs to be fetched and i have to retrive 10 & minutes seperately from the string "After 10 minutes" and the values should go into two different colums of 2 tables in the database.

I cannot use a DTO to set these values since the values will be combination pair of value & timetype.
What should be my approach here.
should i use a Hashmap or a Hashtable or some list so that i can send these values from the Action class to the Session Bean method.

please let me know what needs to be done in this case.waiting for a positive reply from your side.

Thanks & Regards
Vikram K

[Jeanne Boyarsky]

Vikram,
Why can't you just call value.split(" ") and get the two fields from the array for insertion into the database?

[Gregg Bolinger]

1. Is it always "Minutes"? If so, can't you just assume that and have the amount as the value in the option? <option value="10">After 10 Minutes</option>

2. Do you any control over the database? If so, I'd drop the "Minutes" all together. Just hold a value in the database and always assume seconds, minutes, whatever.

Otherwise, do what Jeanne suggested.