Passing Objects to a Tag File

[Frederic Filiatrault]

Hi there,

Think I'm confusing few things. Can you help me out ?

It is possible to configure attributes for tag Files, like this example :

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(Demo.tag)
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<%@ tag body-content="scriptless"%>
<%@ attribute name="test" required="true" type="java.util.Vector"%>
There is : <%=test.size()%> element(s).
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(Demo.jsp)
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<%@ taglib tagdir="/WEB-INF/tags" prefix="t"%>
<!Vector list = new Vector();%>
<t emo test="list"/>
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There is the error. Any idea?

org.apache.jasper.JasperException: jsp.error.beans.property.conversion
org.apache.jasper.runtime.JspRuntimeLibrary.getValueFromPropertyEditorManager(JspRuntimeLibrary.java:885)
org.apache.jsp.Demo_jsp._jspx_meth_t_Demo_0(Demo_jsp.java:74)
org.apache.jsp.Demo_jsp._jspService(Demo_jsp.java:51)
org.apache.jasper.runtime.HttpJspBase.service(HttpJspBase.java:94)
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:810)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:298)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:292)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:236)
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:810)

[Frederic Filiatrault]

Hi again,

I found it out !

<temo test="<%=list%>"/>

Ok. Now, why ?

[Bear Bibeault]

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<t:demo test="list"/>

In the above, "list" is a string.

<t:demo test="<%=list%>"/>

In this, "list" is a referenc to the class-level scripting variable (ugh!) that you created.

You get the error in the first case because a String cannot be converted to a Vector.

[ July 22, 2004: Message edited by: Bear Bibeault ]
[ July 22, 2004: Message edited by: Bear Bibeault ]

[Frederic Filiatrault]

thk !