MonoRail CheckboxList?
- by Justin
I'm trying to use a Checkboxlist in MonoRail to represent a many to many table relationship. There is a Special table, SpecialTag table, and then a SpecialTagging table which is the many to many mapping table between Special and SpecialTag.
Here is an excerpt from the Special model class:
[HasAndBelongsToMany(typeof(SpecialTag),
Table = "SpecialTagging", ColumnKey = "SpecialId", ColumnRef = "SpecialTagId")]
public IList<SpecialTag> Tags { get; set; }
And then in my add/edit special view:
$Form.LabelFor("special.Tags", "Tags")<br/>
#set($items = $FormHelper.CreateCheckboxList("special.Tags", $specialTags))
#foreach($specialTag in $items)
$items.Item("$specialTag.Id") $Form.LabelFor("$specialTag.Id", $specialTag.Name)
#end
The checkboxlist renders correctly, but if I select some and then click Save, it doesn't save the special/tag associations to the SpecialTagging table (the entity passed to the Save controller action has an empty Tags list.) One thing I noticed was that the name and value attributes on the checkboxes are funky:
<label for="special_Tags">Tags</label><br>
<input id="3" name="special.Tags[0]" value="UCampus.Core.Models.SpecialTag" type="checkbox"> <label for="3">Buy 1 Get 1 Free</label>
<input id="1" name="special.Tags[1]" value="UCampus.Core.Models.SpecialTag" type="checkbox"> <label for="1">Free</label>
<input id="2" name="special.Tags[2]" value="UCampus.Core.Models.SpecialTag" type="checkbox"> <label for="2">Half Price</label>
<input id="5" name="special.Tags[3]" value="UCampus.Core.Models.SpecialTag" type="checkbox"> <label for="5">Live Music</label>
<input id="4" name="special.Tags[4]" value="UCampus.Core.Models.SpecialTag" type="checkbox"> <label for="4">Outdoor Seating</label>
Anyone have any ideas?
Thanks!
Justin
