cset problem

[Chaminda Amarasinghe]

Hi all,

I wrote simple code to test the <c:test>

here is the full code

Employee.java

  
public class Employee {
    
    private int id;
    private String name;
 
// Getter and setters are there
     

ServletClass.java

 
Employee emp;
        emp=new Employee();
        emp.setId(1);
        emp.setName("My name);
        
        [B]// Setting a request attribute[/B]
        request.setAttribute("empA",emp);
        
        RequestDispatcher view=request.getRequestDispatcher("test.jsp");
        view.forward(request,response); 
 
  

jsp

  
 
<c:set var="empB" scope="session" value="${empA}" />
    
    Name: ${empB.name}
    
<br>ID: ${empB.id}
 

I think there is no

empA

attribute in the session (because we set it to request). So [B]c:set[B] creates new object.

the created object has not property called name or id,

so there should be no out put.

but the out put was

Name: Chaminda
Id: 1

can some body explain this?

Regards,
Chminda

[Carol Enderlin]

<c:set var="empB" scope="session" value="${empA}" />

I think there is no empA attribute in the session (because we set it to request). So [B]c:set[B] creates new object.

THe scope in <c:set> is about the variable being set (var="empB") and not about the value (value="${empA}").

[Chaminda Amarasinghe]

Thank you