jsp:setProperty body-content

[Yoshita Jain]

What is the <body-content> of the <jsp:setProperty> tag? Don't remember reading anywhere that its empty.

I was also wondering if we could use a embeded tag to assign the the <jsp:setProperty> value....

Something like this:

<jsp:useBean id="person" type="foo.Person" class="foo.Employee">
<jsp:setProperty name="person" property="name" value="<myTag:test/>"/>
</jsp:useBean>

where <myTag:test/> returns a String value
[ October 21, 2007: Message edited by: Yoshita Jain ]

[Lalit mishra]

For <jsp:setProperty> body content is empty

[Yoshita Jain]

Guess the embeded thing doesn't work

'dealerAddrBean' has been previously defined and its 'cityName' set to 'New Delhi'

<jsp:useBean id="dab" class="com.bean.DealerAddrBean">
<jsp:setProperty name="dab" property="dealerName" value='<bean:write name="dealerAddrBean" property="cityName"/>'/>
</jsp:useBean>

and then I did a ${dab.dealerName} it resulted in printing
<bean:write name="dealerAddrBean" property="cityName"/>
rather than 'New Delhi', which I was expecting.

However,the following worked and set the value correctly as

'New DelhiABCDEFG'

<jsp:useBean id="dab" class="com.bean.DealerAddrBean">
<jsp:setProperty name="dab" property="dealerName" >
<bean:write name="dealerAddrBean" property="cityName"/>ABCDEFG
</jsp:setProperty>
</jsp:useBean>
[ October 21, 2007: Message edited by: Yoshita Jain ]

[Jan van Mansum]

<jsp:setProperty> must be empty, so

</jsp:setProperty name="beanName" property="propName">val</jsp:setPoperty>

or

</jsp:setProperty name="beanName" property="propName">
</jsp:setPoperty>

is wrong


Be careful not to confuse with <c:set> from the JSTL, which can have a body, e.g,

<c:set var="myVar">myValue</c:set>

is correct.
[ October 22, 2007: Message edited by: Jan van Mansum ]

[Tarun Yadav]

Also, keep in mind that you can't 'nest' custom tags in the sense that while it's legal to have a tag as the body for another tag, you can't have a tag within another tag.

For example,

<somelib:sometag >
    <anotherlib:anothertag/>
</somelib:sometag>

is fine but

<somelib:sometag <anotherlib:anothertag/>></somelib:sometag>
//or
<somelib:sometag <anotherlib:anothertag/> />

is not ok.

[Yoshita Jain]

Thanks all of you...

But I'm still puzzled coz as I said.. for me..this worked

<jsp:useBean id="dab" class="com.bean.DealerAddrBean">
<jsp:setProperty name="dab" property="dealerName" >
<bean:write name="dealerAddrBean" property="cityName"/>ABCDEFG
</jsp:setProperty>
</jsp:useBean>

and for ${dab.dealerName} it gave me the output 'New DelhiABCDEFG'

And yeah Tarun, 'nested' is incorrect for what I was referring to.. mebbe 'embeded makes more sense..and embeded tags are disallowed.

Thanks,

Yoshita