dynamic anchor value inside html:link

[Paul Woods]

I've never used anchors inside of the html:link (or nested:link) tags before, but am trying to do so now. Any ideas how I can specify an anchor from a bean value, as opposed to typing a string value into the tag?
Right now it looks like I'm going to have to test for one of three values inside that bean, then provide three alternate html:link tags depending on that value.

[Tim Langford]

Yeagh, I struggled with this for a while...
I eventually came up with this, but dont know if it is the best way or not. I basically put the dynamic paramter in a bean and then use a scriptlet

<html:link paramId="expand_table" paramName="table" anchor="<%= (String) session.getAttribute("tab") %>" forward="getmetadata">
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</html:link>

The full JSP is below
HTH
Tim
[CODE SAMPLE]
An outerloop specifies elements with anchors and an innerloop and tags locations. the scriptlet is to test your session variables.
<%@ taglib prefix="c" uri="http://java.sun.com/jstl/core" %>
<%@ taglib uri="/tags/tiles-defs" prefix="tiles" %>
<%@ taglib uri="/tags/struts-bean" prefix="bean" %>
<%@ taglib uri="/tags/struts-html" prefix="html" %>
<%@ taglib uri="/tags/struts-logic" prefix="logic" %>
<%@ page import="javax.servlet.http.*" %>
<%@ page import="java.util.*" %>

Database Name : <c ut value="${dbmetaview.dbMeta.dbAtomicName}"/><br>
<table border cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" >
<font color="red">
<c:forEach var="table" items="${dbmetaview.tables}" varStatus="table_status">
<tr>
<%-- Start: Outer Rows --%>
<th width="20%" align="left" valign="top">

<c ut value="${table_status.count}"/>

<c:set var="count" value="${table_status.count}" scope="session"/>
<c:set var="tab" value="${dbmetaview.tables[count]}" scope="session"/>

<%
System.out.println("Scriptlet");
HttpSession localSession = request.getSession();

Enumeration enum = localSession.getAttributeNames();
System.out.println("Session Paramters");
while (enum.hasMoreElements()) {
String pName = (String) enum.nextElement();
System.out.println("PropertyName JSP-> " + pName);
System.out.println("Value JSP-> " + localSession.getAttribute(pName));
}
%>


<html:link linkName="<%= (String) session.getAttribute("tab") %>" >
<c ut value="${table}"/><br>
</html:link>


<html:link paramId="expand_table" paramName="table" anchor="<%= (String) session.getAttribute("tab") %>" forward="getmetadata">
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</html:link>

<html:link paramId="collapse_table" paramName="table" anchor="<%= (String) session.getAttribute("tab") %>" forward="getmetadata">
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</html:link>


<c:if test="${dbmetaview. == }">


</td></th>


<c:if test="${dbmetaview.displayAttrib[table_status.index] == true}">
<td>
<table border cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" >
<%-- Start: Inner Rows --%>
<tr>
<c:set var="attribVector" value="${dbmetaview.attribMetaData[table_status.index]}"/>
<c:forEach var="attrib" items="${attribVector}">
<tr>
<td><c ut value="${attrib.attributeName}"/></td>
<td><c ut value="${attrib.typeString}"/></td>
<td><c ut value="${attrib.sizeString}"/></td>
<td>
DEANO
</td>
</tr>
</c:forEach>
</tr>
<%-- End: Inner Rows --%>
</table>
</td>
</c:if>

</tr>
<%-- End: Outer Rows --%>
</c:forEach>
</font>
</table>

[Matthew Phillips]

Many of the struts tags were ported to JSTL in the Struts-EL tag library. That will allow you to use the JSTL expression language in the tag. I believe all of the html tags were ported, so you should be able to do something like <html:link . . . anchor="${tab}"> to dynamically set the anchor. I haven't tried it yet, so I can't verify that it works. You have to use the html-el taglib instead of the html taglib to do this.

[Paul Woods]

Thanks for both of your replies. I have it working, though w/o the JSTL for now.