bean:define not working

[Sandeep Awasthi]

Hi All,

I am devloping one small application for learning.

I have tile definition

<definition name=".mainLayout" path="/layouts/mainLayout.jsp">
<put name="title" value="0101 Application"/>
<put name="header" value="/includes/header.jsp"/>
<put name="menu" value=".mainMenu"/>
<put name="footer" value="/includes/footer.jsp"/>
<put name="body" value=".main.body"/>
</definition>
<definition name=".mainMenu" path="/layouts/menuLayout.jsp">
<putList name="list">
<item link="/Employee" value="Employee" classtype="org.apache.struts.tiles.beans.SimpleMenuItem"/>
<item link="/Welcome" value="Department" classtype="org.apache.struts.tiles.beans.SimpleMenuItem"/>
<item link="/Welcome" value="Exit" classtype="org.apache.struts.tiles.beans.SimpleMenuItem"/>
</putList>
</definition>
<definition name=".main.body" path="/includes/mainBody.jsp">



my menuLayout.jsp is

<%@ page contentType="text/html; charset=Cp1252" %>
<%@ taglib uri="/tags/struts-bean" prefix="bean" %>
<%@ taglib uri="/tags/struts-logic" prefix="logic" %>
<%@ taglib uri="/tags/struts-html" prefix="html" %>
<%@ taglib uri="/tags/struts-nested" prefix="nested" %>
 
<%@ taglib uri="/tags/struts-tiles" prefix="tile" %>
 
 
<tile:importAttribute />
 
 
<logic:iterate id="item" name="list" type="org.apache.struts.tiles.beans.MenuItem" >
<br>
 
<bean  :mrgreen: efine id="test" name="item" property="link"   />
<html:link action="<%=test %>" >
<bean:write name="item" property="value" /></html:link>

</logic:iterate>
 
 
 
 
 
But I get jsp compilation error saying
 
Temp\jsp_servlet\_layouts\__menulayout.java:208: cannot resolve symbol
symbol  : variable test 
location: class jsp_servlet._layouts.__menulayout
            _html_link0.setAction(test); //[ /layouts/menuLayout.jsp; Line: 17]
                                  ^
1 error
 

Please help me

Regards

Rajesh
[ May 02, 2007: Message edited by: Rajesh Thakare ]

[Jeanne Boyarsky]

Rajesh,
Where do you define "test" ?

[Sandeep Awasthi]

Hi Jeanne


<%@ page contentType="text/html; charset=Cp1252" %>
<%@ taglib uri="/tags/struts-bean" prefix="bean" %>
<%@ taglib uri="/tags/struts-logic" prefix="logic" %>
<%@ taglib uri="/tags/struts-html" prefix="html" %>
<%@ taglib uri="/tags/struts-nested" prefix="nested" %>
<%@ taglib uri="/tags/struts-tiles" prefix="tile" %>

<tile:importAttribute />
<logic:iterate id="item" name="list" type="org.apache.struts.tiles.beans.MenuItem" >

<br>
<bean:define id="test" name="item" property="link" /><html:link action="<%=test %>" >
<bean:write name="item" property="value" />
</html:link>
</logic:iterate>
[ May 02, 2007: Message edited by: Rajesh Thakare ]

[Sumit Malik]

Hi Rajesh,

You can give a try with specifying type attribute in bean efine tag as

<bean efine id="test" name="item" property="link" type="java.lang.String"/>

or try like <%=item.getLink()%> without specifying bean


Cheers !!!
Sumit Malik

[Sandeep Awasthi]

Hi Sumit,

It worked with <%=item.getLink()%> but why bean:define do not define scripting varibale that I could not understand.

thanks for reply.

Regards

Rajesh