I have a list of Team
objects that have an Integer seed
property. I want to edit all the teams' seeds at once, in a single form. I'm sure that Grails supports indexed parameters, but I can't get it to work.
Here is what I have, and it works but I'm jumping through way too many hoops and there's gotta be a better way.
gsp:
<g:form action="setSeeds">
...
<g:each in="${teams}" status="i" var="team">
<input type="hidden" name="teams[${i}].id" value="${team.id}">
<input type="text" size="2" name="teams[${i}].seed" value="${team.seed}">
</g:each>
</g:form>
controller:
def setSeeds = {
(0..<30).each { i ->
def team = Team.get(Integer.parseInt(params["teams[${i}].id"]))
team.seed = Integer.parseInt(params["teams[${i}].seed"])
}
redirect(action:list)
}
Isn't that awful? Way too much noise. How can I do something along the lines of:
params.teams.each { t ->
def team = Team.get(t.id)
team.seed = t.seed
}
That is, how do I map params named team[0].seed
, team[0].id
, team[1].seed
, team[1].id
to a List?
In Stripes you can just have a List<Team>
property and it will just work. I expect no less from Grails! ;-)
Thanks in advance for your help.
params
is more than a regular Map, it's a GrailsParameterMap
that automatically builds up sub-Map structures based on splitting the parameter names by '.'. You might take advantage of this by using the following gsp:
<g:form action="seed">
<g:each in="${teams}" status="i" var="team">
<input type="hidden" name="teams.${i}.id" value="${team.id}">
<input type="text" size="2" name="teams.${i}.seed" value="${team.seed}">
</g:each>
<g:submitButton name="update" value="Update" />
</g:form>
NB: there's no [] in the name attributes. The controller is now pretty simple using some black Grails magic :
log.error "params = ${params}"
params.teams.findAll {k,v -> !k.contains(".")}.each { k,v ->
bindData(Team.get(v.id), v)
}
The first operation findAll
filters out all parameters with a dot inside. The rest is a map of maps holding the row id in k
and the id
and seed
in v
.
I hope this answers your question.
I finally figured out how to do this without any shenanigans.
Forget about the hidden parameter and just use the team ID in the seed parameter. In the GSP:
<g:form action="setSeeds">
...
<g:each in="${teams}" var="team">
<input type="text" size="2" name="teams.seeds.${team.id}"
value="${team.seed}">
</g:each>
</g:form>
Then, in the controller:
params.teams.seeds.each { teamId, seed ->
def team = Team.get(teamId.toInteger())
team.seed = seed.toInteger()
team.save()
}
redirect(action:list)
Works like a charm.
In 2015....
Grails works a little differently now and you may find yourself running into strings rather than the expected sub-maps.I got something to work by doing
something like..
params.nested.each{
if(!it.getKey().contains('.')){
//to get a map rather than a string...
params.nested[it.getKey()];
}
};
EDIT: By The Way...
inputs that have the same name, like
<input name="item.choice" type="checkbox" value="3" />
< input name="item.choice" type="checkbox" value="4"/>
Are put into a List IF more then one are submitted. So if both of the above were checked
<input name="item.choice" type="checkbox" value="3" checked />
< input name="item.choice" type="checkbox" value="4" checked/>
You would get a list.
But if only one is checked you do NOT get a List(at least in grails verison I use), you get a single value.
<input name="item.choice" type="checkbox" value="3" checked />
< input name="item.choice" type="checkbox" value="4" />
That means in a controller, if I were to do something like
params['item.choice'].each{
def item=Item.get(it)
}
It would throw an error if only one item was submitted. One groovy way to get around this is
([]+(params['item.choice']?:[])).each{
def item=Item.get(it)
}
If the parameter is set and not a list, it puts the value into the empty list; If the parameter is set and a list, the plus operator will add all the individual values to the empty list; if the parameter is not set, it will add two empty lists together, which creates a single empty list.
Not sure if this helps but you could use a closure with it like:
<g:each in="${teams}">
<p>id: ${it.id}</p>
<p>seed: ${it.seed}</p>
</g:each>
You could probably build a list from this instaed of outputting html. or build your form with it.