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Sampath
Sampath

Reputation: 11

Can I keep an object reference in a hidden field in Struts 2?

Can I keep an object reference in a hidden field in Struts 2?

My JSP:

<s:hidden name="employee"/>

The employee is a reference, which refer an employee object in the Action class, which invokes above JSP file.

Upvotes: -1

Views: 2198

Answers (2)

Roman C
Roman C

Reputation: 1

When s:hidden tag is rendered it put the value in the value attribute after evaluating OGNL expression in the name attribute.

Struts2 support basic type conversions for types other than String. It has also support for writing custom converters for types it doesn't know as basic, but configured via XML.

So, you can create a new object for the type you reference in the name attribute. But the value is not the object reference, it is the result of the OGNL expression evaluation, and if it is an Object then toString() method is called to get the value.

You may try to pass that string value to server and instantiate an object that will not have the same reference but might have the same hash code.

Upvotes: 1

dev
dev

Reputation: 715

No You can't transfer object using s:hidden name="employee", all the parameter, what are transferred with HTTP should be string. You can send object id else and retrieve object later.

or You can put your object into session, so that you can access it anytime you want. here is an example::

http://www.java4s.com/struts-tutorials/example-on-struts-2-sessionaware-interface/

Upvotes: 2

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