The only thing to be aware of is to not collide your manually created text fields' names with those selected by Tapestry for the form elements. I.e., if you have a component with id "userName" don't create a manual text field with name="userName". They'll collide and confuse things.
On 10/12/07, Jean-Philippe Steinmetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thanks again. I went with the second suggestion and it works beautifully. > > Jean-Philippe > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > On Behalf Of Josh Canfield > > Sent: Friday, October 12, 2007 3:37 PM > > To: Tapestry users > > Subject: Re: T5: Form not saving all elements > > > > You can grab the the parameters directly from the request > > > > @Inject > > Request _request; > > > > _request.getParameter("fieldName"); > > > > You'll have to deal with the potential for strange values, null, etc. > > > > Although, if this is for your selection list problem from > > earlier I believe a better solution might be to create a map > > and use that as the model for your the t:select component. > > > > Create a property: > > private HashMap<String, String> _schoolModel; private String > > _schoolId; > > > > in setup render: > > > > for ( School school : getSchools() ) { > > String value = school.getName() + " - " + school.getLocation(); > > String key = school.getId().toString(); > > _schoolModel.put(key, value); > > } > > > > in your template: > > > > School: <t:select t:id="schoolId" t:model="schoolModel"/> > > > > I haven't compiled this code, so there might be typos/bugs, > > but that's the gist. > > > > Josh > > > > > > On 10/12/07, Jean-Philippe Steinmetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > So I have a form that has several elements. A few of the > > elements are > > > not done using the tapestry components and use regular HTML because > > > the required steps to make things work as needed with the > > components > > > is simply not a suitable solution. So how do I get these > > regular form > > > elements to save properly? > > > > > > Jean-Philippe > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > -- > > TheDailyTube.com. Sign up and get the best new videos on the > > internet delivered fresh to your inbox. > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- Howard M. Lewis Ship Partner and Senior Architect at Feature50 Creator Apache Tapestry and Apache HiveMind
