Struts2 Control Tag Generator Tag Example

Struts2 Generator Tag Example

Aim:

Struts 2 generator tag is used to generate an iterator based on the “val” attribute provided in the page.

Procedure:

            Step 1:

            Create project GeneratorPro

            Step 2:

            Create Action GeneratorAction.java

            Include following coding into GeneratorAction.java

package example;

import com.opensymphony.xwork2.ActionSupport;

public class GeneratorAction  extends ActionSupport

{

    public GeneratorAction()

    {

    }

    public String execute() throws Exception

    {

        return "success";

    }

}

Step 3:

          Create jsp files

            home.jsp

< %@taglib uri="/struts-tags" prefix="s" % >
< html >
< head >
< meta content="keyword" name="Struts2 Generator Tag Example" >
< title > Generator Tag Example < /title >
< /head >
< body >
< s:form action="generateAction" method="post" >
< s:submit value="OK"/ >
< /s:form >
< /body >
< /html >

GeneratorTag.jsp

< %@taglib uri="/struts-tags" prefix="s" % >
< html >
< head >
< meta content="keyword" name="Struts2 Generator Tag Example" >
< title > Generator Tag Example < /title >
< /head >
< body >
< s:generator val="%{'www.suresh.com,www.suresh.net,www.suresh.org'}" separator="," >
< s:iterator >
< s:property/ >
< /s:iterator >
< /s:generator >
< /body >
< /html >

Step 4:

Made some changes in struts.xml

< !DOCTYPE struts PUBLIC
"-//Apache Software Foundation//DTD Struts Configuration 2.0//EN"
http://struts.apache.org/dtds/struts-2.0.dtd >
< struts >

< package name="example" namespace="/example" extends="struts-default" >
< action name="generateAction" class="example.GeneratorAction" >
< result name="input" > /example/home.jsp < /result >
< result name="success" > /example/GeneratorTag.jsp < /result >
< /action >
< /package >
< /struts >

Step 5:

Run the home.jsp

Directory structure of this project