There's a bunch of ways this could be done. Personally, I'd either create a standard JSP-based custom tag, do it in JavaScript, or write a thin layer between a DB-backed UI description DSL and a JavaScript UI builder.
Dave On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 10:37 AM, John Dondapati <djohnji...@gmail.com>wrote: > Would a custom component be the right direction to solve this? > > If this has been asked earlier, can someone please point me to that > resource. Thanks! > > On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 10:22 AM, John Dondapati <djohnji...@gmail.com > >wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > I have recently started playing around with struts 2 framework. And I > have > > an interesting problem that I wanna solve with Struts. We are creating a > > survey from the questions stored in database and even the options like > > yes/no/other/comment fields come from the database. Even the html type is > > stored in the database. Now, I have to create the right html type input > > element based on that html type value stored in database. > > > > For e.g. If the question is say : > > > > Questions 1 : Are you a citizen of USA ? > > option 1 : Yes <radio> > > option 2 : No <radio> > > option 3 : If other, please specify <text field> > > > > This is just a sample question but there are millions like this which > have > > options that are more than one html type. Now, how do I go about this? Is > > there a plugin/extension for struts that would let me dynamically select > the > > UI component type? > > > > Any suggestions are welcome and are really appreciated. Thank you! > > > > -- > > Cheers, > > John > > > > > > > -- > Cheers, > John >
