Is it possible to inline an array/list as a tag parameter?

[Peter White]

Hello,

I'm using code generation to generate JSP documents and would like to be able to pass selection values to my custom select field tag as follows as opposed to dynamically building a List via scriptlets and passing the list as my "items":

<ui:select name="locked" items='${{"","Please Select"},{"true","Yes"},{"false","No"}}'/>

When I try this, I get the following stack trace. I've tried several varations of this syntax with no luck and was wondering if this is even possible or if I just haven't nailed the correct syntax yet.

As a side note, I'm using JSP 2.0 tag files as opposed to coding my tag library in Java.

Thanks in advance!
Peter


org.apache.jasper.JasperException: /WEB-INF/forms/doctest_en-us.jspx(83,103) "${<<"","Please Select"},{"true","Yes"},{"false","No"}>>" contains invalid expression(s): javax.servlet.jsp.el.ELException: Encountered "{", expected one of [<INTEGER_LITERAL>, <FLOATING_POINT_LITERAL>, <STRING_LITERAL>, "true", "false", "null", "(", "-", "not", "!", "empty", <IDENTIFIER>]

at org.apache.jasper.compiler.DefaultErrorHandler.jspError(DefaultErrorHandler.java:83)

at org.apache.jasper.compiler.ErrorDispatcher.dispatch(ErrorDispatcher.java:402)

at org.apache.jasper.compiler.ErrorDispatcher.jspError(ErrorDispatcher.java:236)

at org.apache.jasper.compiler.JspUtil.validateExpressions(JspUtil.java:640)
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[Vijayendra V Rao]

I assume that the 'ui' tag has been defined in your tag lib file. By looking at the exception, I think that the class (probably you would have defined this class within some other custom tag such as <tagclass> does not recognize a few of the string literals that you have specified in your name attribute of the <ui/> tag.

I am not sure if this is actually the problem in your case, but I remember facing a problem on similar lines with the values that I had provided for the tag's attribute were not being recognized by the corresponding tag class. Just check if this is the case.

[Vijayendra V Rao]

Originally posted by Vijayendra V Rao:
I assume that the 'ui' tag has been defined in your tag lib file. By looking at the exception, I think that the class (probably you would have defined this class within some other custom tag such as tagclass, does not recognize a few of the string literals that you have specified in your name attribute of the <ui/> tag.

Sorry, the winking eye was a mistake

[Bear Bibeault]

No, you cannot automatically create lists using any type of EL notation.
[ November 08, 2004: Message edited by: Bear Bibeault ]

[Peter White]

Thanks for the replies. It looks like I can do what I want with OGNL so now I need to find a way to replace the default ExpressionEvaluator used in JSP 2.0 with my own that can use OGNL to evaluate the inlined lists.