Struts 2 Iterator Example - SMARTSIMBA.COM

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In this article, we will learn how to iterate a list of Strings or Objects using iterator tag in struts2 . Below is the syntax for the iterator tag.

<s:iterator value="someList">
      <s:property />
</s:iterator>

1. Development Environment

Eclipse
JDK 1.8
Tomcat 8.5
Maven

2. Create a Maven Web Project

Below is my dynamic web project struts2-iterator structure in eclipse. In this example, we are using struts 2.1.8 version.

This project has the following actions,

iterator-example.action: In this action, we will iterate a list of strings and a list of objects.

Code:

package com.simba.demo;

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;

import com.opensymphony.xwork2.ActionSupport;

/**
 * @author Simba
 *
 */
public class IteratorExampleAction extends ActionSupport{

  private List<String> listNames=new ArrayList<String>();
  private List<User> listUsers=new ArrayList<User>();;
  
  public List<String> getListNames() {
    return listNames;
  }

  public void setListNames(List<String> listNames) {
    this.listNames = listNames;
  }

  public List<User> getListUsers() {
    return listUsers;
  }

  public void setListUsers(List<User> listUsers) {
    this.listUsers = listUsers;
  }

  public String iteratorExample() {
    listNames.add("Arya");
    listNames.add("Sansa");
    listNames.add("Jon");
    listNames.add("Daenerys");
    listNames.add("Tyrion");
    
    listUsers.add(new User("Arya", "Female", 16));
    listUsers.add(new User("Sansa", "Female", 19));
    listUsers.add(new User("Jon", "Male", 22));
    listUsers.add(new User("Daenerys", "Female", 25));
    listUsers.add(new User("Tyrion", "Male", 35));
    
    return SUCCESS;
  }
  
}

package com.simba.demo;

/**
 * @author Simba
 *
 */
public class User {

  private String name;
  private String gender;
  private Integer age;

  
  public User(String name, String gender, Integer age) {
    super();
    this.name = name;
    this.gender = gender;
    this.age = age;
  }
  
  public String getName() {
    return name;
  }
  public void setName(String name) {
    this.name = name;
  }
  public String getGender() {
    return gender;
  }
  public void setGender(String gender) {
    this.gender = gender;
  }
  public Integer getAge() {
    return age;
  }
  public void setAge(Integer age) {
    this.age = age;
  }

}

<%@ page language="java" contentType="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"
  pageEncoding="ISO-8859-1"%>
<%@taglib uri="/struts-tags" prefix="s"%>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
<title>Iterator Example</title>
</head>
<body>
  <h1>Iterator Example- List of String values</h1>

  <table>
    <tr>
      <th>Name</th>
    </tr>
    <s:iterator value="listNames">
      <tr>
        <td><s:property /></td>
      </tr>
    </s:iterator>
  </table>

  <h1>Iterator Example- List of Objects</h1>
  <table>
    <tr>
      <th>Name</th>
      <th>Gender</th>
      <th>Age</th>
    </tr>
    <s:iterator value="listUsers">
      <tr>
        <td><s:property value="name" /></td>
        <td><s:property value="gender" /></td>
        <td><s:property value="age" /></td>
      </tr>
    </s:iterator>
  </table>

</body>
</html>

<!DOCTYPE struts PUBLIC
"-//Apache Software Foundation//DTD Struts Configuration 2.0//EN"
"classpath://struts-2.0.dtd">

<struts>

  <package name="iteratorExample" namespace="/" extends="struts-default">
    <action name="iterator-example" class="com.simba.demo.IteratorExampleAction" method="iteratorExample">
      <result>/WEB-INF/jsp/iterator-example.jsp</result>
    </action>
  </package>

</struts>

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
  xmlns="http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/javaee"
  xsi:schemaLocation="http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/javaee http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_3_1.xsd"
  id="WebApp_ID" version="3.1">
  <display-name>struts2-iterator</display-name>
  <filter>
    <filter-name>struts2</filter-name>
    <filter-class>org.apache.struts2.dispatcher.FilterDispatcher</filter-class>
  </filter>
  <filter-mapping>
    <filter-name>struts2</filter-name>
    <url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
  </filter-mapping>
</web-app>

<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
  xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
  <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
  <groupId>struts2-iterator</groupId>
  <artifactId>struts2-iterator</artifactId>
  <version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
  <packaging>war</packaging>
  <build>
    <plugins>
      <plugin>
        <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
        <version>3.7.0</version>
        <configuration>
          <source>1.8</source>
          <target>1.8</target>
        </configuration>
      </plugin>
      <plugin>
        <artifactId>maven-war-plugin</artifactId>
        <version>3.0.0</version>
        <configuration>
          <warSourceDirectory>WebContent</warSourceDirectory>
        </configuration>
      </plugin>
    </plugins>
  </build>
  <dependencies>
    <dependency>
      <groupId>org.apache.struts</groupId>
      <artifactId>struts2-core</artifactId>
      <version>2.1.8</version>
    </dependency>
  </dependencies>
</project>

3. Testing

In your eclipse configure tomcat and run your application by selecting Run on server.

1. Development Environment

2. Create a Maven Web Project

3. Testing

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