jstl access for obj.obj.member

[Chris Pat]

Hello
I cant work out the syntax for accessing the member getter of an object of an object in a collection? e.g. objA has a member of class objB which has a member of bValue. How do I construct an EL expression that will allow me to c ut the value of the bValue? tia.

[Bear Bibeault]

Do you have property accessors for each of the items you wish to access?

[Chris Pat]

Originally posted by Bear Bibeault:
Do you have property accessors for each of the items you wish to access?

Hi
Yes I do, for both objA and objB with objB member getBValue()

[Paul Clapham]

If the name of the property is really "bValue" and that isn't just obfuscated, then you will have to change it. Properties whose name starts with a single lower-case character followed by an upper-case character can't be made to work properly (for reasons that I forget just now). I had the problem with a property named "eMailAddress" and when I renamed it "emailAddress" the problem went away.

[Chris Pat]

Originally posted by Paul Clapham:
If the name of the property is really "bValue" and that isn't just obfuscated, then you will have to change it. Properties whose name starts with a single lower-case character followed by an upper-case character can't be made to work properly (for reasons that I forget just now). I had the problem with a property named "eMailAddress" and when I renamed it "emailAddress" the problem went away.

Hi Paul
Thanks, but I still dont know the syntax for that second level of indirection. Lets say it is called bvalue. How would I access it

<c:forEach var="results" items="${sessionScope.sampled}"varStatus="status">
<c:out value="${results.objB.bvalue}"/>
</c:forEach>

with objA(objB.bvalue) and the results=(Collection) objA

[Paul Clapham]

Start from the left. You have a variable named "result". Does it have a property to get the member of class objA? If not then you're stuck. If it does, then use the property name. Repeat with the object of class objA: does it have a property to get the member of class objB? Etcetera.

[Stefan Evans]

If you have the method getBValue() then the attribute exposed is "BValue" and not "bValue"

See the API for method "decapitalize" in the class java.beans.Introspector