doInitBody()

[ashok khetan]

hi!
here is a tag-handler class. In JSP API, it has been given that if the doStartTag() method returns EVAL_BODY_INCLUDE, then doInitBody() method will not be invoked. It will only be invoked if doStartTag() returns EVAL_BODY_BUFFERED. But in the given class, the doInitBody() method is invoked even the doStartTag() returns EVAL_BODY_INCLUDE. Please clear where i am wrong.
ashok.
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package mytagdir;
import javax.servlet.http.*;
import javax.servlet.jsp.*;
import javax.servlet.jsp.tagext.*;
import java.io.*;
public class MyPage extends BodyTagSupport {
public int doStartTag() throws JspException {
return EVAL_BODY_INCLUDE;
}
public void doInitBody() throws JspException {
System.out.println("initBody()");
}
public int doAfterBody() throws JspException {
return SKIP_BODY;
}
public int doEndTag() throws JspException {
return EVAL_PAGE;
}
}

[satish kolli]

doInitBody() and doAfterBody() will be invoked when you return EVAL_BODY_INCLUDE. But the setBodyContent() method will be invoked only when you return EVAL_BODY_BUFFERED from doStartTag()
(This is what i saw when i try testing). But the API Says when you return EVAL_BODY_INCLUDE , doInitBody() will not be invoked.
Thanks!
Satish Kolli,SCJP2
[This message has been edited by satish kolli (edited October 31, 2001).]

[Win Yu]

Originally posted by satish kolli:
doInitBody() and doAfterBody() will be invoked when you return EVAL_BODY_INCLUDE. But the setBodyContent() method will be invoked only when you return EVAL_BODY_BUFFERED from doStartTag()
(This is what i saw when i try testing). But the API Says when you return EVAL_BODY_INCLUDE , doInitBody() will not be invoked.
Thanks!
Satish Kolli,SCJP2
[This message has been edited by satish kolli (edited October 31, 2001).]

So the spec is wrong? Can any one clear this?

[Ernest Lee]

it says clearly on the spec (API) that doInitBody will be called only if doStartTag return EVAL_BODY_BUFFERED... so IMHO, something is wrong in the "implementation" u are using.