How to retrieve struts2 checkboxlist values - struts2

Question

I will create a list with checkboxlist. For those I use following code:
<s:form action="accept" namespace="/manager/course">
<s:checkboxlist list="courseRequests" name="acceptList" listValue="studentNickname" listKey="studentId" theme="checkbox-fix"/>
<s:url action="accept" namespace="/manager/course" var="accList" />
<s:a href="%{accList}"><s:text name="Accept"/> </s:a>
</s:form>
It work fine a create a check box list, that you can see its pic in the following:
and this is html code generated by above code:
<form id="accept" name="accept" action="/ESA/manager/course/accept.action" method="post">
<table class="wwFormTable">
<table class="gradienttable">
<tr>
<th class="row"><p>Row</p></th>
<th style="width: 240px;"><p>Student</p></th>
<th ><p>Accept</p></th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td id="row"><p><label>1</label></p></td>
<td style="width:250px;"><p>
<label for="acceptList-1" class="checkboxLabel">Mansour Barzegar</label>
</p></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><p>
<input type="checkbox" name="acceptList" value="5" id="acceptList-1" </p></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td id="row"><p><label>2</label></p></td>
<td style="width:250px;"><p>
<label for="acceptList-2" class="checkboxLabel">Ali Mahmoudi</label>
</p></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><p>
<input type="checkbox" name="acceptList" value="6" id="acceptList-2" </p></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td id="row"><p><label>3</label></p></td>
<td style="width:250px;"><p>
<label for="acceptList-3" class="checkboxLabel">Masih Zare</label>
</p></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><p>
<input type="checkbox" name="acceptList" value="7" id="acceptList-3" </p></td>
</tr>
</table>
Accept
</table>
</form>
In the Action Class I tried to retrive seleced checkbox value by following code:
private int[] acceptList;
public void setAcceptList(int[] acceptList){
this.acceptList=acceptList;
}
and several other code but I all states I get null.
Do I use wrong code?

Answer 1

in your markup, do this:
<input type="checkbox" name="thename" id="checkbox_id1" value="value1" />
<input type="checkbox" name="thename" id="checkbox_id2" value="value2" />
in your action (or object) do this:
// action/object code...
Set<String> cbox = new HashSet();
public void setThename(String[] thenames) {
for (String thename : thenames) {
cbox.add(thename);
}
}
// action/object code...
notice the checkbox name matches the setter name, e.g. element name == someName and method == setSomeName
Same would apply for Set<Integer>, but you use int[] thenames as the argument. You could also use Integer[] thenames for the argument.
to test output:
if (cbox != null) {
for (String s : cbox) {
log.info(s);
}
}
http://struts.apache.org/release/2.2.x/docs/using-checkboxes.html