Selected radio button value to be send to action class

[Maan Suraj]

I have a radio button which retrieves value from the property of a form. I need to send the value of the radio button to the action class?How can i do that? I need to send the value of only the selected radio button and not all. Can i do it <html:hidden> tag? If yes, how?

Also how to send the label of the radio button selected? Label of a particluar radio button is also populated from the property of a form?

[Jeanne Boyarsky]

Maan,
The value of the selected radio button is already submitted. If you need the label too, you do need a hidden field.

[Maan Suraj]

Thanks Jeanne....

But it would have been great if you could expain this to me with a small example....

As i am not very clear....
What iam doing is iam selecting a radio button and clicking submit.

My code is something like as mentioned below
<logic:iterate>
<for label>
//below is for label

<bean:write name="abcForm" propery=empid>

//below is the radio button and its value

<html:radio name="currenty i dont care" id="currently idontcare" value=<%="empName.toString" />
</logic:iterate>

Both empName and empid are properties of the form.


My code is something like above, if not exactly the same...
Now i select a radio button from the list of radios displayed ,and clicks submit.

On click of submit, it calls javascript, form where it forwards to a particular action class.Then question here is how can i send both "empId" and "empName" values?

[David Newton]

This seems less a Struts question than a JavaScript question, no?

[Maan Suraj]

ok...it is...but i kept it here as i thought we are populating the values of radio button etc through struts tags. Anyways , can anyone please help?

[David Newton]

...

I guess you'd have to set the onclick handler of the radio button to a JavaScript function that sets the hidden field with the value of the name.

[Maan Suraj]

<logic:iterate> 
<for label> 
[color=red]//below is for label [/color]
<bean:write name="abcForm" propery=empid> 

[color=red]//below is the radio button and its value [/color]

<html:radio name="currenty i dont care" id="currently idontcare" value=<%="empName.toString" /> 
</logic:iterate> 

Now i will just try to show how its gets displayed on the screen (just look and feel)

EmpID 0200110035 o Manish
EmpID 0200110093 o Rajesh

Now suppose i select the first radio button , then i am able to retrieve value of it (i.e here 'Manish') , but NOT the label '0200110035'

[David Newton]

Sure there is.

Look: you're asking how to do something in JavaScript, which isn't Struts. *You* have to build the JavaScript method call that sets the hidden field with the employee name. Here's some pseudo-code:

<input type="..." name="..." onclick="fillHiddenField('${emp.empName}')"/>
...
<script ...>
  function fillHiddenField(n) {
    $('hiddenField').value = n;
  }

OTOH, if you have the empId, it would seem like you don't really need the empName.