Grails Random

[Gareth Millward]

Hi,

I have this code at that outputs the images for a property in my list.

<g:each in="${property.images}" var="g">
<img src="/agp/images/${g?.imageURL}"alt="" width="150px" height="100px" />
</g:each>

However I just want to display the first available object in the for each not all of them.

I tried this way.. im not sure if this is the right way to go about it...

<g:set var="randImg" value="${new Random(property.images.size())}" />
<img src="/agp/images/${g?.imageURL[randImg}"alt="" width="150px" height="100px" />

[adwin wijaya]

can you type like this
${property.images[0]}

i think it should work ...
[ October 04, 2008: Message edited by: adwin wijaya ]

[Gareth Millward]

Doesn't seem to like that

<g:each in="${property.images[0]}" var="g">
<img src="/agp/images/${g?.imageURL}"alt="" width="150px" height="100px" />
</g:each>


Message: No signature of method: org.hibernate.collection.PersistentSet.getAt() is applicable for argument types: (java.lang.Integer) values: {0}
Caused by: No signature of method: org.hibernate.collection.PersistentSet.getAt() is applicable for argument types: (java.lang.Integer) values: {0}
Class: Unknown
At Line: [-1]
Code Snippet:

[Matthew Taylor]

Originally posted by Gareth Millward:

However I just want to display the first available object in the for each not all of them.

There are a couple of things you might need to know here. Firstly, that if if you declare a "[]" in Grails, it creates a Set by default. So if you are concerned about the order in which your images are in, you'll want to declare it like this:

def imageList = [] as List

This is the reason you were getting the exception, because there is no way to access a Set element with the subscript operator [0], because the Groovy Set object has no getAt() method.

Secondly, if you only want the first element of the List, you don't need to loop through with <g:each/>. If it is a List, you can just do this:

<img src="/agp/images/${property.images[0]}"alt="" width="150px" height="100px" />

If the collection is a Set, however, and you really don't care which image you use, you can cast it to a List and use the subscript operator. This is essentially a random image from the collection.

<img src="/agp/images/${(property.images as List)[0]}"alt="" width="150px" height="100px" />

Hope that helps you out.
[ October 07, 2008: Message edited by: Matthew Taylor ]

[Marc Peabody]

Don't forget the .imageURL part!

<img src="/agp/images/${property.images[0]?.imageURL}" alt="" width="150px" height="100px" />