Using jsp to read a input from a radio button

Question

i am trying read a input from a radio button ,normly if the name of radio button is "priority" and if u referrence it as request.getParameter("priority") it shld work right but mine does not.
<% rs = stmt.executeQuery("select PRIORITYNAME,PRIORITYDESC from TBL_PRIORITY ");
<td>Priority</td>
<% while(rs.next())
%>
<input name="priority" type="radio"><% out.println(rs.getString(1)); %><% out.println(rs.getString(2)); %><br>
<%
%>
is it bcs i am using a loop !! bcs am populating the radio fields from a database

Answer 1

i am trying read a input from a radio button ,normly
if the name of radio button is "priority" and if u
referrence it as request.getParameter("priority") it
shld work right but mine does not.
A couple of things not necessarily addressing your problem, but still..
Avoid too much Java code in the JSP. Use existing tags or write new custom tags to do the task.
Avoid database access form the JSP itself, if possible.
<% rs = stmt.executeQuery("select
PRIORITYNAME,PRIORITYDESC from TBL_PRIORITY ");
<td>Priority</td>
<% while(rs.next())
%>
<input name="priority" type="radio"><%
out.println(rs.getString(1)); %><%
out.println(rs.getString(2)); %><br>
<%
%>
I'm not quite sure what are you trying to do with the above. You want the labels of the radio buttons to be obtained from the database as well as their values, is it?
Does PRIORITYNAME correspond to the value of the radio button and PRIORITYDESC correspond to the label of the radio button?
If that's the case, I think you need to do it as follows:
Radio button is declared as follows in HTML
<input name="priority" type="radio" value="<%rs.getString(1)"%>><%rs.getString(2)%></input>
is it bcs i am using a loop !! bcs am populating the
radio fields from a databaseNo