get Collection from request scope ???

Hi there,
I'm trying to get an ArrayList back on a jsp page that i had previously added to the request object using request.setAttribute("name",listObject);

I had added it in the execute method of Action class that will forward to this jsp page where i want to get back this ArrayList and show its details !!!

However the page comes out to be blank. not even the table headings are visible !!! the struts-config.xml,web.xml, and context.xml are all ok !!!

Thanks

In order to help you find the problem, we'll need you to post:

1-The portion of your Action class that sets the value in the request
2-The portion of your JSP that tries to retrieve and display the value from the request.
3-Any entries in your struts-config.xml file that are relevant to this process.

Here's the action class
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public class AlternateLoginAction extends Action {

ActionMessages errors = new ActionMessages();

public ActionForward execute(ActionMapping mapping, ActionForm form,
HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) {

getUsers(request); //look below

saveErrors(request,errors);

return mapping.findForward("showList"); //forwards ok to the display page !!!
}

public void getUsers (HttpServletRequest request) {
String sql = "select * from t_user_dtls;";
ArrayList<UserInfo> userList = new ArrayList<UserInfo>();
DataSource ds = getDataSource(request);
try {
Connection conn = ds.getConnection();
Statement stmt = conn.createStatement();
ResultSet rs = stmt.executeQuery(sql);
while (rs.next()) {
UserInfo user = new UserInfo();
user.setName(rs.getString("user_name"));
user.setPassword(rs.getString("password"));
user.setStatus(rs.getString("status"));
user.setId(rs.getInt("user_id"));
userList.add(user);
rs.next();
}
rs.close();
stmt.close();
conn.close();
} catch (SQLException sex) {
errors.add(null, new ActionMessage("errors.dao.sql.failed"));
}
HttpSession session27 = request.getSession(); // even if a use request object it doesn't work !!!
session27.setAttribute("allUsersList", userList);
}
}

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Here's the jsp that displays the ArrayList
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<%@ page language="java" pageEncoding="ISO-8859-1"%>
 
<%@ taglib uri="http://struts.apache.org/tags-bean" prefix="bean" %>
<%@ taglib uri="http://struts.apache.org/tags-html" prefix="html" %>
<%@ taglib uri="http://struts.apache.org/tags-logic" prefix="logic" %>
<%@ taglib uri="http://struts.apache.org/tags-tiles" prefix="tiles" %>
 
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html:html lang="true">
  <head>
    <html:base />
    
    <title>showList.jsp</title>
 
<meta http-equiv="pragma" content="no-cache">
<meta http-equiv="cache-control" content="no-cache">
<meta http-equiv="expires" content="0">    
<meta http-equiv="keywords" content="keyword1,keyword2,keyword3">
<meta http-equiv="description" content="This is my page">

 
  </head>
  
  <body>
  <hr>
    <h4><html:errors /></h4>
  <hr>
  <table border="1" style="border-collapse:collapse">
  <thead>
  <tr><th>Username</th><th>Password</th><th>Status</th><th>User Id Given</th></tr>
  </thead>
  <tbody>
   <logic:empty name="allUsersList" scope="session">
   <hr>RESULT ARRAYLIST IS EMPTY FOR SHOW ALL USERS !<hr>
   </logic:empty>  
   <logic :p resent name="allUsersList" scope="session" >
    <logic:iterate id="user" name="allUsersList" scope="session" type="com.myhws.struts.UserInfo">
    <tr align="center"><td><bean:write name="user" property="name" /></td>
       <td><bean:write name="user" property="password" /></td>
       <td><bean:write name="user" property="status" /></td>
       <td><bean:write name="user" property="user_id" /></td>
    </tr>
    </logic:iterate>
   </logic :p resent> 
  </tbody>
  </table>
  <hr>
  </body>
</html:html>

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struts-config.xml entry relevant to this page
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Thanks

Added [ c o d e ] [ / c o d e ] tags to make this readable - Merrill
[ July 31, 2006: Message edited by: Merrill Higginson ]

If you receive a blank page in struts it's because of forward issue. Your action class contains

return mapping.findForward("showList"); //forwards ok to the display page !!!

and the forward is configured as

<forward name="showlist" path="/showList.jsp" />

thanks its working now.

sorry for not being alert .....