How to display html:select in Edit page using same options as in Add page

Question

Hi,
<html:select property="tblAssociateDetailsVisaType">
            <html:option value="H1">H1</html:option>
</html:select>I want small help -
I have two functionalities 1.add 2.Update
In Add i have nearly 10 dropdown lists with average 20 options, when i submit into DB stored a single record.
Now when i want to Edit that same record , i am just getting the value from DB and displaying as <td><html:text property="tblAssociateDetailsVisaType" value="<%=VisaType_page%>" size="10"/> which is a wrong way!
But, i am struggling in showing the same dropdown list with all the option with the option retrieved from the DB on top with <html:select ..... selected>!
Please help me how to do ?
I would like to make you of .properties file in doing so ! Which avoids recompiling!
Thanks in advance!
Edited by: ganeshtyarala on Dec 17, 2007 11:57 AM

Answer 1

You could store all of the options in a collection and then loop through it and compare it to the value that was returned. (collection contains beans with value and label attribute)
This is the code I use.. it is using JSTL tags, but you could implement the same using other methods.
When my application loads I query the database to get the possible values for the drop down and then load them into the the form.
<div class="fieldSpan">
<select name="rewardTypeCode" id="rewardTypeCode">
          <c:forEach var="rewardTypeCodes" items="${sessionScope.myActivity.rewardTypeCodeList}">
               <option <c:if test="${sessionScope.myActivity.rewardTypeCode == rewardTypeCodes.value}">selected</c:if>
                    value="${rewardTypeCodes.value}">${rewardTypeCodes.value} - ${rewardTypeCodes.label}</option></c:forEach></select></div>