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Generating Action for multiple search option

 
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Hi all,

I have a JSP page where there are multiple options for search, i.e. "search by Application id", "search by Applicant name" etc. I have used struts EventDispatchAction to catch the event generated by a particular submit button. This is working fine. Below is the snap of the struts-config file for this:

<action name="SearchApplicationForm" path="/searchApplication" scope="session" parameter="idSubmit,nameSubmit" type="SearchApplicationAction" validate="false">
<forward name="idForward" path="searchApplication"/>
<forward name="nameForward" path="searchApplication"/>
</action>

Now if I am facing problem in paginating the search results, because I am not able to generate event when the page numbers are clicked. They are hyperlinks. Below is the code used to generate the page numbers:

<c:forEach items="${pagelist}" var="emp">

<td><a href="#?page=${emp}">${emp}</a></td>
</c:forEach>

I am not sure what to put in place of # to generate event for EventDispatchAction.
Any help in this regard will be very helpful. Thanks
 
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You can set the url to be used in paging from the action class. Declare the Paging_Url_var and set the values accordingly from the action class. If it is for searchByEmployeeId and set it to “/searchByEmployeeId/someaction”, If it is for searchBySomethingElse and set it to “/searchBySomethingElse /someaction”. And you can user that variable in jsp page.
 
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Thanks for the reply.

[quote=Anbarasu Aladiyan] If it is for searchByEmployeeId and set it to “/searchByEmployeeId/someaction”, If it is for searchBySomethingElse and set it to “/searchBySomethingElse /someaction”. And you can user that variable in jsp page.[/quote]

The problem is, to create the url I have to detect the event in the JSP page itself and not in the action class (which is the case at present).

<c:forEach items="${pagelist}" var="emp">

<td><a href="searchApplication.do?nameSubmit&page=${emp}">${emp}</a></td>

</c:forEach>

The above code works but I have hard-coded "nameSubmit" in it.
Surely handling multiple search-options in one page is not something radically new. But I am at a loss
 
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[quote=June Rajkhowa]The problem is, to create the url I have to detect the event in the JSP page itself and not in the action class (which is the case at present).
[/quote]
I am not sure why you can't do that from action class. Since the action is different for different search types, you can do that easily. Without that this is not possible, coz when the request come back from the action, jsp does not knows about the parameters/fields were available in the previous JSPs (Assuming that search page and result page are different).

Or even you can set the EventType/SearchType from the action class, so that make the URL from JSP by depending on the 'EventType/SearchType' set from the action class. (Please note that again you need to do that from your action class)

Please let me know, if i miss something
 
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And Welcome to JavaRanch
 
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Anbarasu Aladiyan wrote:
I am not sure why you can't do that from action class. Since the action is different for different search types, you can do that easily.



why dont you try with the code I have provided with. Maybe you can see where i am going wrong.
 
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Anbarasu Aladiyan wrote:And Welcome to JavaRanch



Thanks. But I have been present in this place since 2008. I forgot my userid and password. So had to create a new account
 
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