Confusion, HFSJ Page 385

[Chandra Bhatt]

Hi,

I am not able to grasp the following line of HFSJ page 385:
Think about the scenario, if you have a name that's not in quotes in brackets[], that means it MUST adhere to Jana naming rules, right? Here, we're OK, because person is perfectly legal Java variable name. But that's because somewhere, someone said
,

request.setAttibute("person",p);

But the attribute name is a String.

Strings dont follpow Java variable name rules.
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Please help me!



Thanks,

[swarna dasa]

String could be "1234"

so you could say request.setAttibute("1234",p);

but with dot operator, 1234 is not a valid java identifier, so you cant say
pageContext.request.1234 //wrong

can say
requestScope["1234"]
or
pageContext.request["1234"]

[Chandra Bhatt]

Very nice description Swarna!

Got it.



Thanks,