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About this Tutorial

• Create a Weblog
• View Weblog and its Entries
• Add a New Entry
• Edit/Save an existing Entry
• Edit a Weblog and its Users
• Edit a User and their Weblogs

Table of Contents

• [1] Modify userForm.jsp to allow creating/editing a weblog (many-to-many)
• [2] Modify the UserAction to support editing a user's weblogs
• [3] Create an EntryAction to handle CRUD-ing Entries
• [4] Add the ability to see all Weblogs and edit them, as well as their users

Modify userForm.jsp to allow creating/editing a weblog [#1]

A weblog record has 3 fields: weblogId, blogTitle and dateCreated. The blogTitle is the only field that users should be able to edit. The rest of them can be set programmatically. Open web/pages/userForm.jsp and add the following code to the bottom of the form (between </table> and </form>.

<fieldset style="position: absolute; top: 190px; left: 520px">
    <legend style="font-weight: bold">Weblogs</legend>
    <c:forEach var="blog" items="${userForm.weblogs}" varStatus="index">
        <input type="hidden" name="weblogs[<c:out value='${index.index}'/>].weblogId" value="<c:out value='${blog.weblogId}'/>"/>
        <input type="hidden" name="weblogs[<c:out value='${index.index}'/>].username" value="<c:out value='${blog.username}'/>"/>
        <input type="hidden" name="weblogs[<c:out value='${index.index}'/>].dateCreated" value="<fmt:formatDate value='${blog.dateCreated}' pattern="MM/dd/yyyy"/>"/>
        <input type="text" name="weblogs[<c:out value='${index.index}'/>].blogTitle" size="40" value="<c:out value='${blog.blogTitle}'/>"/><br/>
    </c:forEach>

</fieldset>

Run ant clean deploy, go to http://localhost:8080/appfuse/editProfile.html and login as "tomcat/tomcat". You should see a screenshot like the one below.

If you try to save at this point, you'll probably get the following error:

The process did not complete. Details should follow.
IllegalArgumentException occurred calling getter of org.appfuse.model.Weblog.weblogId
object is not an instance of declaring class

This happens because the "weblogs" property of User is populated with a bunch of WeblogForm objects, instead of Weblog objects.

Modify the UserAction to support editing a user's weblogs [#2]

To fix saving a User, add convertLists(user) to the save() method of UserAction.java:

In addition, you can add convertLists(user) to UserAction.edit() and get rid of the <fmt:formatDate> tag around the dateCreated property.

NOTE: The reason convertLists(Object) isn't called automatically by the convert(Object) method is because it invokes lazy-loaded collections. APF-81

Create an EntryAction to handle CRUD-ing Entries [#3]

Add the ability to see all Weblogs and edit them, as well as their users [#4]

WeblogWithUsers.png		12462 bytes
WeblogAction.java		5803 bytes
weblogList.jsp		1483 bytes
WeblogWithEntry.png		14386 bytes
WeblogCRUD.png		38859 bytes
UserWithWeblog.png		10692 bytes
weblogForm.jsp		1782 bytes
WeblogWithCategory.png		15572 bytes