Making a bean collected from a collection in a page, available in a subsequent page

[Gregory Vandenbroucke]

Hi all,
I've been looking for a way to make a bean I collected in a jsp page (using logic:iterate) available in a linked page (the links a created in the logic:iterate tag). I've tried to use the bean tag "define", I've tried to use paramId, etc. from the "link" html tag but I can't collect the bean in the linked pages.
My jsp code looks like this:

<table class="user_table">
<!-- Heading of the table -->
<tr class="user_table_header">
<th><bean:message key="user.overview.login"/></th>
<th><bean:message key="user.overview.name"/></th>
<th><bean:message key="user.overview.first.name"/></th>
<th><bean:message key="user.overview.password"/></th>
<th><bean:message key="user.overview.country"/></th>
<th><bean:message key="user.overview.role"/></th>
<th><bean:message key="user.overview.email"/></th>
</tr>

<logic:iterate id="user" name="users">

<tr>
<td>
<html:link action="/userDetailForward" styleClass="user_link">
<bean:write name="user" property="login"/>
</html:link>
</td>
<td><bean:write name="user" property="info.name"/></td>
<td><bean:write name="user" property="info.firstName"/></td>
<td><bean:write name="user" property="password"/></td>
<td><bean:write name="user" property="info.country"/></td>
<td><bean:write name="user" property="info.role"/></td>
<td><bean:write name="user" property="info.email"/></td>
</tr>

</logic:iterate>

</table>

Depending on which link was clicked I would like to make the corresponding user bean available in the next page. Is this possible? And how do I collect the user bean in the clicked page, if it is possible?
TIA,
Greg

[Junilu Lacar]

Assuming:
- the user's login property is unique,
- userDetailForward.do is associated with an ActionForm that has
a field named userlogin
you would change the link tag to:

<html:link action="/userDetailForward" 
   paramId="userlogin"
   paramName="user"
   paramProperty="login"
   ...>
 
[I]// would render something like this:[/I]
<a href="/userDetailForward.do?userlogin=gregv" ...>

Note that paramName should be the same value as what you specified for the logic:iterate id attribute.
In the receiving action, you can then use the submitted userLogin value to initialize a bean that you can make available to the next page, although you'd normally just pre-populate the ActionForm to be displayed with whatever detailed data you look up using the submitted userLogin value as the key.
[ April 30, 2004: Message edited by: Junilu Lacar ]