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Often we are accessing repository items in a JSP page like this.

  <dspel:droplet name="RQLQueryForEach" var="query">
    <dspel:param name="repository" bean="/betweengo/repository/Repository"/>
    <dspel:param name="itemDescriptor" value="Account"/>
    <dspel:param name="queryRQL" value="ALL"/>
    <dspel:setvalue param="account" paramvalue="element"/>
    <dspel:oparam name="output">
      <dspel:valueof param="account.name"/><br/>
    </dspel:oparam>
  </dspel:droplet>

With JSTL we could try to display the name like this.

      <c:out value="${query.account.name}"/>

If you are using JSP 2.0 you can display it even more simply.

      ${query.account.name}

However since account is a RepositoryItem object and there is no get method for the name property (i.e. it’s not a JavaBean object) the above will fail and produce an exception.

To get around this you can extend ATG’s RQLQueryForEach class by overriding the protected setElementParameter. In addition to setting the element parameter in the request you can set a new parameter which we will call “item”. This item is of class atg.beans.DynamicBeanMap and wraps a RepositoryItem.

public class RQLQueryForEachEL extends RQLQueryForEach {
  protected void setElementParameter(DynamoHttpServletRequest pRequest,
                                     String pElementName, Object pValue) {
    super.setElementParameter(pRequest, pElementName, pValue);
    DynamicBeanMap itemBean = new DynamicBeanMap(pValue, true);
    pRequest.setParameter("item", itemBean);
  }
}

Now we can access the repository item with JSTL like this.

      ${query.item.name}

Submitting a form from a radio button is not common but it is a nice UI which is even better when done with AJAX.

A typical form with two radio buttons would look something like this.

<form action="test.html">
1 <input type="radio" name="test" value ="1"><br>
2 <input type="radio" name="test" value ="2">
<p><input type="submit" value="submit">
</form>

But with basic JavaScript you can make a simpler form like this.

<script>
function submitAction( form, absPath ) {
form.action = absPath;
form.submit();
}
</script>
<form action="test.html" id="test">
1 <input type="radio" name="test" value ="1" onchange="submitAction(document.getElementById('test'), 'test.html')"><br>
2 <input type="radio" name="test" value ="2" onchange="submitAction(document.getElementById('test'), 'test.html')">
</form>

If you are using Struts the above form’s JSP would be:

<html:form action="test.do" styleId="test">
1 <input type="radio" name="test" value ="1" onchange="submitAction(document.getElementById('test'), 'test.do')"><br>
2 <input type="radio" name="test" value ="2" onchange="submitAction(document.getElementById('test'), 'test.do')">
</html:form>