Re: Pass integer value from a checkbox on JSP to the server

From:
Lew <noone@lewscanon.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Thu, 11 Feb 2010 14:35:08 -0500
Message-ID:
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albert kao wrote:

How to pass integer value from a checkbox on JSP to the server?
None of the following 3 checkboxes will pass an integer to the server.
The server receive "k" or "$k" but not 1, 2, 3, ....
<td><input type="checkbox" name="choice" value="k">Data</td>


You are telling the checkbox that its value is the string "k".

<td><input type="checkbox" name="choice" value="$k">Data</td>


You are telling the checkbox that its value is the string "$k".

<td><input type="checkbox" name="choice" value=k>Data</td>


You are telling the checkbox that its value is the string "k".
You should get in the habit of enclosing all HTML attribute values in quotes.

The JSP page is:
<c:set var="k" value="0"/>
<c:forEach items="${model.data}" var="data">
     <tr>
         <c:forEach items="${data}" var="datavalue">
         <td style="font-family:monospace">${datavalue}</td>
         </c:forEach>
         <td><input type="checkbox" name="choice" value="k">Data</td>
         <c:set var="k" value="$(k+1)"/>
     </tr>
</c:forEach>


You want to use an Expression Language (EL) expression.

<http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-jstl0211.html>
Section on "Variable tags" may be most useful here.

<http://java.sun.com/j2ee/1.4/docs/tutorial/doc/JSPIntro7.html>
<http://java.sun.com/products/jsp/syntax/2.0/syntaxref207.html>

<http://www.oracle.com/technology/sample_code/tutorials/jsp20/simpleel.html>

*Expression Language Syntax*
The JSP expression language allows a page author to access a bean
using a simple syntax such as:
   
   ${expr}

In the above syntax, expr stands for a valid expression. It must be
noted that this expression can be mixed with static text, and may also
be combined with other expressions to form larger expressions.


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