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hi all
i m making a Shopping Cart & i need to store array of values in session. it does get stored, but at a time i only get to see one value only, even after i run the "FOR" loop.
my doGet is as below

in doPost I retrieve the values from session .

need more info...??
tia
MB..
[ December 14, 2002: Message edited by: malhar barai ]
 
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Could you restate exactly what your requirements are in a more general way? I can't really tell what you are trying to do.
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Hi ,
I feel u will get only 1 item back from the existing program as u are not appending the item item_id
Every time the request come to the server a item_id is created with 1 element.
So what u have to do is , first get the array from session add the new element to it and then put the array back in the session .
 
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Originally posted by William Brogden:
Could you restate exactly what your requirements are in a more general way? I can't really tell what you are trying to do.
Bill


hi bill
the problem is exactly as understood by sandeep. I am able to get only one item in the session.
MB
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Originally posted by Sandeep Jain:
Hi ,
I feel u will get only 1 item back from the existing program as u are not appending the item item_id
Every time the request come to the server a item_id is created with 1 element.
So what u have to do is , first get the array from session add the new element to it and then put the array back in the session .


hi Sandeep
You are bang on target. but do i achieve this. what I tried is
String[] item_id = (String[])session.getValue("item_id");
item_id[item_id.length+1] = item_value;//new item being stored
session.putValue("item_id",item_id);
but this isn't wrking fine with me, any changes...??
thnx anyway
MB..still
 
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hi bill
the problem is exactly as understood by sandeep. I am able to get only one item in the session.


That is NOT what I said. I asked what you are trying to do! A very different question.
If you want to keep adding items to the session, this is not the way to go about it. You are trying to use a String array - but arrays can not be expanded. Perhaps you want to use one of the collection classes?
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I agree with Bill. Use a Vector and your problem should go away -- Also -- rather than storing things as you are, consider creating an Item class that contains price, quantity and description fields. Then store the Items in a Vector held in the HttpSession.
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Originally posted by Kyle Brown:
Use a Vector and your problem should go away -- Also -- rather than storing things as you are, consider creating an Item class that contains price, quantity and description fields. Then store the Items in a Vector held in the HttpSession.
Kyle


hi kyle
I think that would solve my problem. About the Item class...can you shed some more light on that. Do you mean to say I should create an Item class with price,quantity & description & access it by Item.price & so on...??? or have I misunderstood you..??
thnx anyway
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Yes, that is exactly what I am saying. Your code for adding a new item would look like:
Item anItem = new Item(price,quantity,desc);
Vector items = (Vector) session.getAttribute("items");
items.add(anItem);
session.putAttribute("items", items);
To get it back;
Vector items = (Vector) session.getAttribute("items");
Enumeration enum = items.elements();
while (enum.hasMoreElements()) {
Item item = (Item) enum.nextElement();
double price = item.price;
String desc = item.desc;
int qty = item.qty;
// now print them out or whatever
}
Item would just have the attributes described above, a constructor, and maybe some getters and setters. This is called OBJECT-ORIENTED PROGRAMMING and it's what you're supposed to do in Java
Kyle
 
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thnx a ton kyle & all others who helped me out.
MB
 
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