Need Help with check box values!

[Sankar Bhamidi]

Hi everyone,
Can someone help me? I have 4 checkboxes... and in the HTML they look like this:
<Input type ="Checkbox" name="jobType" value="FULLTIME">Fulltime
<Input type ="Checkbox" name="jobType" value="PARTTIME">Parttime
<Input type ="Checkbox" name="jobType" value="INTERN">Intern
But when I process it with the JSP page and want to enter the chosen value as text, it inserts something like this:
[Ljava.lang.String;@74bcf7
[Ljava.lang.String;@9fa8f
Can someone please help me, as to why the values of the checkboxes are not inserted??
Thanks!
CHARAN

[Dmitriy Pavlyuk]

Your problem is very strange. Symbols which you are get in the value is the memory link of your String object. Default when you output your string? the string value is outputing (method toString() is calling). May be you have another mistake in your code.
Try to call method toString() actually, f.e. <%=yourString.toString()%>, but it's equal to <%=yourString%> if "yourString" has a String type.

[Adam Hardy]

perhaps if we saw the JSP we could tell?

[Sankar Bhamidi]

Thank you for your replies. Here is the relevant code in the java file and then the JSP page. Please help:
public class Student implements java.io.Serializable{
private String[] jobType;

public Student(){
jobType=new String[] { "1" };
}
public void setJobType(String[] jobType){
this.jobType=jobType;
}
public String[] getJobType(){
return jobType;
}
}
The relevant JSP code is :

<%@ page import="java.sql.*" %>
<%@ page import="java.util.*" %>
<%@ page import="java.util.Date" %>
<%@ page import="java.io.*" %>

<jsp:useBean id="s" class="Student" scope="request"/>
<%String driver = "sun.jdbc.odbc.JdbcOdbcDriver";
String url = "jdbc dbc:Resume";
String SSN;

Class.forName(driver);
Connection con=null;
try{
con=DriverManager.getConnection(url);

Statement stmt=con.createStatement();

String st= "insert into Profile values("+s.getSsn()+",'"+s.getLastName()+"','"+s.getFirstName()+"','"+s.getEmail()+"','"+s.getGender()+"','"+s.getDegree()+"','"+s.getMajor1()+"','"+s.getMajor2()+"','"+s.getGradua tionDate()+"','"+s.getAuthorization()+"','"+s.getJobType()+"','"+s.getGpa()+"','"+s.getSkills()+"')";
String st1= "insert into resume(Ssn) values("+s.getSsn()+")";
stmt.executeUpdate(st);
stmt.executeUpdate(st1);
SSN= s.getSsn();
stmt.close();
stmt=null;
}finally {

if(con!=null) {
con.close();
}
}
%>
<jsp:forward page="welcome.jsp"/>

Thank y'all!
CHARAN

[Junilu Lacar]

Herein lies your problem (see sections highlighted):

Originally posted by Sankar Bhamidi:
public class Student implements java.io.Serializable{
private String[] jobType;

...
public String[] getJobType(){
return jobType;
}
}
The relevant JSP code is :
...
String st= "insert into Profile values("+s.getSsn()+",'"+s.getLastName()+"','"+s.getFirstName()+"','"+s.getEmail()+"','"+s.getGender()+"','"+s.getDegree()+"','"+s.getMajor1()+"','"+s.getMajor2()+"','"+s.getGradua tionDate()+"','"+s.getAuthorization()+"','"+s.getJobType()+"','"+s.getGpa()+"','"+s.getSkills()+"')";

s.getJobType() returns a String[], not a String. Since concatenating strings will implicitly call the toString() methods for objects, Array.toString() will be called for a String[].
Suggested solution: Create another get method, say getJobTypeString(), that returns a String. This method will loop through this.jobType and build up the correct String you need.
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Junilu Lacar
Sun Certified Programmer for the Java� 2 Platform
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[This message has been edited by JUNILU LACAR (edited November 09, 2001).]
[This message has been edited by JUNILU LACAR (edited November 09, 2001).]