Re: menu item order if menu stored in database

Sorry, this has been sitting in my inbox for awhile now. Can you please 
enter this as a bug in Struts Menu?

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=add&group_id=48726&atid=453974

Thanks,

Matt

On Jan 9, 2005, at 6:52 PM, lixin chu wrote:

> I guess it is becuase menu items are put into a
> HashMap in MenuRepository, that's why the sequence is
> not presevered.
>
> --- lixin chu <lixin_chu-/[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> would like check if anyone has encountered this
>> before.
>>
>> i basically want to display menu items in a
>> particular
>> order. the menu items are stored in a database. I
>> followed the online example. I deliberatly store the
>> menu items into the database according to the view
>> sequence. The resulted list of items show the
>> corrent
>> sequnce. However, when jsp renders the topMenus, it
>> seems that it order is not what I stored in the
>> database (the sub menu items are all correctly
>> displayed in each top menu).
>>
>> SQL query menu database:
>> ------------------------
>> "from Menu p order by p.id asc"
>>
>> in my StartupListener:
>> ----------------------
>> MenuRepository defaultRepository = (MenuRepository)
>> context.getAttribute
>> (MenuRepository.MENU_REPOSITORY_KEY);
>> MenuRepository repository = new MenuRepository();
>>
> repository.setDisplayers(defaultRepository.getDisplayers());
>> MenuManager mgr = (MenuManager)
>> ctx.getBean("menuManager");
>>
>> List menus = mgr.getMenus();
>> for (int i=0; i<menus.size();i++) {
>>   MenuComponent mc = new MenuComponent();
>>   Menu m = (Menu) menus.get(i);
>>   BeanUtils.copyProperties (mc, m);
>>   String parent = m.getParentName();
>>   if(parent != null) {
>>     MenuComponent parentMenu =
>> repository.getMenu(parent);
>>     if (parent == null) {
>> 	parentMenu = new MenuComponent();	
>> parentMenu.setName(parent);    		
>> repository.addMenu(parentMenu);
>>     }
>>     mc.setParent(parentMenu);
>>   }    			
>>   repository.addMenu(mc);
>>  }
>>     		
>> context.setAttribute("menuRepository", repository);	
>> 	
>>
>> in my jsp file:
>> ----------------
>> <menu:useMenuDisplayer name="ListMenu"
>> repository="menuRepository">
>>  <c:forEach var="menu"
>> items="${menuRepository.topMenus}">
>>     <menu-el:displayMenu name="${menu.name}"/>
>>  </c:forEach>
>> </menu:useMenuDisplayer>
>>
>>
>> I am not sure how to control the <c:forEach> with
>> menuRepository so that it displays the topMenu in my
>> intended order.
>>
>> thanks
>> li xin
>>
>>
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