Suggestion on templated page

[Timothy Sam]

Hi, I have a search page which only had forms... I can include this page on any part of my JSP as I please because it doesn't generate any dynamic contenet. However, now I realized that I need to include dynamic content... For example, I need a html:select tag that would be poppulated based on the records on the database... But to do this, I need to come from the controller which would render my template, un-reusable in other parts of my page... I've thougt of different solutions, mainly...

1. Type all the option tags manually.
2. AJAX?
3. Maybe <jsp:include page="/actions/someactions.do"/> would work?
4. Maybe Struts has other alternatives to this problem...

I'm sure many of you have experienced this... I'm trying to remain as model 2 as possible... Thanks!

[Merrill Higginson]

I vote for option 3. By having a jsp:include call a Struts action, you can populate the bean containing the list of options and then display the JSP fragment as part of a larger page.

[Timothy Sam]

Hi Merrill. Thanks for your suggestion... But the page I'm trying to include won't get displayed... I even tried taking out all the Struts tags and just insert a plain text... But nothing would appear excep the page which is trying to include the template... Here's how I inlcude my page...

index.jsp

    <jsp:include page="/actions/findpage.do?page=searchapplicant" />

Here's the page I'm trying to include...

<%@ taglib uri="/WEB-INF/struts-html" prefix="html" %>
 
<table class="RegularText">
 <tr><td><center><b>Search Applicant</b></center></td></tr>
 <tr>
  <td>
 
   <html:form action="/actions/searchapplicant.do" method="post">
    <table border="0" cellspacing="5">
 
    <tr>
     <td></td><td></td>
    </tr>
 
    <tr>
     <td class="CaptionText"><b>Citizenship:</b></td>
     <td>
      <html:select property="filterBy">
       <option value="1">Filipino</option>
       <option value="0">Muslim</option>
       <option value="">No preference</option> 
      </html:select></td>
    </tr>
 
    <tr>
     <td class="CaptionText"><b>Religion: </b></td>
     <td>
      <html:select property="filterBy">
       <option value="1">Christian</option>
       <option value="0">Muslim</option>
       <option value="">No preference</option> 
      </html:select>  
     </td>
   </tr>
 
   <tr>
    <td class="CaptionText"><b>Age preference: </b></td>
    <td>
     <html:select property="filterBy">
      <option value="20-25">20-25</option>
      <option value="26-30">26-30</option>
      <option value="31-35">31-35</option>
      <option value="35-100">35 and above</option> 
      <option value="">No preference</option> 
     </html:select>  
    </td>
   </tr>
 
   <tr>
    <td></td><td><html:submit value="Search applicant" styleClass="ButtonStyle"/></td>
   </tr>
 
 
</table>
</html:form> 
 
 
  </td>
 </tr>
</table>

thanks for you help...

[Timothy Sam]

Hmmm... After clearing all my cookies and offline contents... I found out that the page really just forwards to my included page and not really include it... OMG!!!

[Merrill Higginson]

Make sure the forward for your action does not specify redirect="true". It sounds like this may be what's happening.