accesss to indexed variable in bean

[J. Cartwright]

Hello All,

I'm trying to use JSTL to access and indexed property on a bean.

The bean accessor looks like:

public List getRecord(int index) {
return((List)records.get(index));
}

and my JSP looks like this:

<c:forEach items="${requestScope.dataBean.record[0]}" var="record">
${record}<br>
</c:forEach>

However, this doesn't work, complaining that:

Unable to find a value for "record" in object of class "DataBean" using operator "."

Can anyone help me?

Thanks!

-- john

[Bear Bibeault]

Hmm, not something I've ever tried to do, and the JSP 2.0 Specification doesn't have much to say on this re the expression language.

Myself, I've never much cared for indexed properties, so I've always used a slightly different pattern which is known to be EL-friendly.

Rather than an indexed property, I usually have a discrete property that returns an array (or List, or Map, or whatever collection) and use the array indexing mechanism on the returned collection.

For example:

  String[] getMyStrings()

which can be used in the EL as

 ${someBean.myStrings[index]} 

In your example, it looks like each of your indexed properties is a List, so you could define an accessor such as:

 List[] getRecords() 

and use it in your page as:

  
<c:forEach items="${requestScope.dataBean.records[0]}" var="record">

[ November 16, 2005: Message edited by: Bear Bibeault ]