Java/HTML/Loop Question

Question

Hiya,
I wasn't too sure where I should post this so let me know if its in the right place.
Basically I am completing an online voting system using servlets. I have all the features working correctly except for one. I am totally dumstruck as to what I should put in the below ****** gap.
  out.println("<form name = vote action=ballotServlet method= POST>" +
                            "<TABLE border = 1 cellspacing = 3>" +
                            "<tr><th>Name</th><th>Description</th><th>Party</th><th></th></tr>");
                    ArrayList all = c.allCandidates;
                    for (int i = 0; i < all.size(); i++) {
                        Candidate value = (Candidate) all.get(i);
                        out.println("<tr><td>" + value.getName() + "</td>" +
                                "<td>" + value.getDescription() + "</td>" +
                                "<td>" + value.getParty() + "</td>" +
                                "<td><input type=radio name=vote value= ****** ></td></tr>");
                    out.println("</TABLE>" +
                            "<p><input type=submit id=submitVote value=Submit Vote>" +
                            "</BODY></HTML>");
                    out.close();Basically, I need the value from whatever is produced in that loop (the value of the radio button) but if I assign it to a value such as value.getName..it just reads it out as this String rather than the actual value. I have tried to assign it to a seperate value also but it just doesn't work.
Does anyone have any ideas?
Thanks,
welsh-diva87

Answer 1

I'm not sure this is something we can answer for you. It's a design decision. You seem to be asking "How can I identify which candidate was selected when the form gets posted back to the server?"
This identifier is whatever you want it to be. It should be some unique value for each candidate in your list, and something that won't cause problems when being URLEncoded. The name may work, in which case you could put value.getName() in your space. If that doesn't meet your needs, then use something else, even an arbitrary id string for each candidate.
Btw, the HTML you are generating is very wrong. Your attribute values need to have quotes around them in the response. If you're in java code you could print it like this:
out.println("<form name=\"vote\" action=\"ballotServlet\" ...{code}