Issue with Core:forEach Tag, or perhaps something else

[Brandon Plamondon]

So I have an interesting issue, I'm trying to iterate over an ArrayList of objects however nothing is working. Debugging shows the ArrayList of Records in the request scope but the for each will not display them.

   
<%@ page language="java" contentType="text/html; charset=UTF-8" pageEncoding="UTF-8"%>
<%@ taglib uri="/tags/core" prefix="core" %>
<%@ page import="java.util.ArrayList" %>
<%@ page import="com.test.Record" %>

<% 
	ArrayList<Record> array = new ArrayList<Record>();
	Record a = new Record();
	a.setDesc("meh123428934792");
	a.setTitle("meh");
	array.add( a );
	Record b = new Record();
	b.setDesc("omgwtfbbqhaxzorz");
	b.setTitle("1337");
	array.add( b );
	request.setAttribute("array", array);
%>

<core:forEach items="${array}" var="meh">
	<div class="record">
		<h3>${meh.title}</h3>
		<p>${meh.desc}</p>
	</div>
</core:forEach>

 

Here is the Record class

   
package com.test;

public class Record {
	private String title = null;
	private String desc = null;

	public String getTitle() {
		return title;
	}

	public void setTitle(String title) {
		this.title = title;
	}

	public String getDesc() {
		return desc;
	}

	public void setDesc(String desc) {
		this.desc = desc;
	}
}

Anyone have any ideas why my results would be the following:

${meh.title}

${meh.desc}

And nothing else.

[Bear Bibeault]

Most likely your app is mis-configured. See the JSP FAQ. Is your web.xml declared using the Servlets 2.4 Schema, or the 2.3 DTD?

[Brandon Plamondon]

This is my web.xml, really really simple... using the 2.3 dtd.

   

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>

<!DOCTYPE web-app
  PUBLIC "-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD Web Application 2.3//EN"
  "http://java.sun.com/j2ee/dtds/web-app_2_3.dtd">
  
<web-app>
	<display-name>Test</display-name>

  	<welcome-file-list>
    	     <welcome-file>index.jsp</welcome-file>
  	</welcome-file-list>

  	<taglib>
    	     <taglib-uri>/tags/core</taglib-uri>
    	     <taglib-location>/WEB-INF/c.tld</taglib-location>
  	</taglib> 	
	
</web-app>

[Bear Bibeault]

That's the problem. You've disabled the EL.

Refactor your web.xml to use the 2.4 or 2.5 XML Schema. It's detailed in the JSP FAQ.

[Brandon Plamondon]

That did the trick, thank you kindly.