Okay we are going to create a simple test of creating a read-write bean. Let's go ahead and in our ContactKeeper project create a new bean called com.blogger.contacts.beans.SimpleNameBean
Now your SimpleNameBean should have two fields, a firstName and a lastName field. Generate your getters and setters this time in the wizard as opposed to just getters. In the default constructor set the firstName and lastName fields to some value. You should end up with this as your Java code:
package com.blogger.contacts.beans;
public class SimpleNameBean {
private String firstName;
private String lastName;
public SimpleNameBean() {
this.firstName = "First Name";
this.lastName = "Last Name";
}
public String getFirstName() {
return firstName;
}
public void setFirstName(String firstName) {
this.firstName = firstName;
}
public String getLastName() {
return lastName;
}
public void setLastName(String lastName) {
this.lastName = lastName;
}
}
Pretty cut and dry code here, however, by having setter methods you make your bean opened up to being written to.Now let's go ahead and create a new JSP called testname.jsp. Here's the code for the JSP page and I'll explain each part:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<jsp:root xmlns:jsp="http://java.sun.com/JSP/Page" xmlns:c="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core" version="2.0">
<jsp:directive.page contentType="text/html; charset=UTF-8"
pageEncoding="UTF-8" session="true"/>
<jsp:output doctype-root-element="html"
doctype-public="-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
doctype-system="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"
omit-xml-declaration="true" />
<jsp:useBean id="namebean" class="com.blogger.contacts.beans.SimpleNameBean" type="com.blogger.contacts.beans.SimpleNameBean" scope="session"></jsp:useBean>
<jsp:setProperty property="*" name="namebean"/>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title>Insert title here</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>
Welcome ${namebean.firstName} - ${namebean.lastName}
</p>
<form method="post" action="testname.jsp">
Enter new first name: <input type="text" name="firstName" />
< br />
Enter new last name: <input type="text" name="lastName" />
< br />
<input type="submit" name="action" value="Submit"/>
</form>
</body>
</html>
</jsp:root>
Okay so this again is our JSP 2.0 page using the full out XML syntax (Also, let me know [if anyone is reading this] if you prefer the full XML syntax or the old JSP tag syntax. I know the XML syntax can be a bit verbose and I'm considering dropping it because it takes up a ton of space and is really hard to type and hit all the finer points.)
Which I bring up those finer points because one of the things you will need to do with all that XML is change one of the attribute in the jsp:directive.page tag near the top. You will need to change the "session" attribute from false to true. What this tells the JSP compiler is that the JSP plans to use sessions and that all the needed stuff to make that happen needs to be created. To save on overhead, some JSPs can be written so that they don't take part of sessions, however, we are going to need to use sessions in order to remember values every time we click the "Submit" button.
Okay so you see the jsp:useBean tag, which shouldn't be new here, but notice that the scope is now set to session as oppose to page. The reason being is that the bean will need to exist in the session as oppose to a new bean being created for every time you view the page. This is also why the JSP needs to take part in sessions. By putting the bean in the session scope, it will remember the values in the bean between page views.
The next tag is a new one. jsp:setProperty. This is much like the jsp:getProperty, but instead uses the setters. Notice that I've set the "property" attribute to "*". This is a special token for this attribute. The "*" means that it will do it's best to try to match names to fields. This can save you a lot of time and can also cause you a lot of headache. It's one of those double edge sword things.
Moving on down, you see the EL for outputting the name in the paragraph tag. Nothing new here. The next part is pretty much your standard HTML input form. You'll notice that the name attributes for the text inputs has been set to my field names. The jsp:setProperty tag should take care of the matching up here. The submit button is your run of the mill HTML submit button that will redirect you to the page that you're currently on, so you really don't go anywhere when you click the "Submit" button.
When you do click the "Submit" button, the jsp:setProperty tag goes to work. It finds the HTML form and searches inside of it for field name match ups, if it finds a match, it calls the matching setter method. Once the jsp:setProperty tag is all done with it's work, the web container moves to the page given in the action attribute. Because the bean is session scope, the values that were pushed to the bean by the jsp:setProperty remain. The page comes back with the new first and last names now!
Ta-Da!
Like I said this was going to be a real quickie. I hope this has shown you a bit about read-write beans. We'll get a little more advance on the next round.
Cheers!
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