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JSP 2.0 Tag Files - is it possible to pass dynamic-attributes from one to another?

 
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I'm using JSP 2.0 Tag files in a Struts 2 application. If I do something like the following, it works great:



In anogb.tag, I have:



However, if I change anogb.tag to reference another tag file, I'm unable to pass the dynamic-attributes to it. I've tried just about everything but haven't found a solution yet. Any ideas?

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if I change anogb.tag to reference another tag file


What do you mean by that ?
 
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The dynamic attributes are stored in a Map.
The Map is accessible in pageContext under the attribute with the name specified by the attribute "dynamic-attributes"

So within your tag file because you had <%@ dynamic-attributes="dynattrs" %>, you can reference ${dynattrs} to get the map of dynamic attributes.

You would have to pass it directly to any other tags that you want to use it. It would pass as a Map. I don't see any issues doing that, what problem are you having?
 
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Here's my JSP that's calling my tag file:



In anogb.tag, I have:



How do I pass {dynattrs} to my a.tag file in order to render the "style" attribute?

In a.tag, I have:



If I call <li:a> directly from my JSP, it works fine and renders the style attribute. However, if I try to pass the attributes to <li:a> with the following code, it bombs:



Error reported:



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Ok.
You can't nest custom tags in this manner.
You can't use a custom tag as an attribute to another custom tag.

Dynamic attributes are meant so that the tag will handle whatever parameters you pass it at runtime. However you can't dynamically create the attributes to the tag and then evaluate the tag in this manner.

An alternative would be to define another attribute to the <li:a> tag which takes a Map of name/value pairs.

ie like this
 
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Originally posted by Stefan Evans:
Ok.
You can't nest custom tags in this manner.
You can't use a custom tag as an attribute to another custom tag.

Dynamic attributes are meant so that the tag will handle whatever parameters you pass it at runtime. However you can't dynamically create the attributes to the tag and then evaluate the tag in this manner.

An alternative would be to define another attribute to the <li:a> tag which takes a Map of name/value pairs.

ie like this



That's what I figured when I first started trying to solve this. However, your suggestion doesn't seem to work. In my "a.tag" file, I have:



And this results in:

 
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<%@ attribute name="extraAttributes" required="false" type="java.util.Map" %>

Is there a "caused by" section in that stack trace that you have chopped off?
 
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Adding type="java.util.Map" worked. Thanks! Unfortunately, I don't see a "caused by" in my stack trace.

I do see a NoClassDefFoundError though:

 
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