Cannot find bean in any scope...

I have a action class which adds an arraylist of Friends object to the request. The action class is invoked from a hyperlink so it doesn't need a form element. Now when i am trying to display the contents of the bean, it gives an error saying

javax.servlet.ServletException: Cannot find bean: "friend" in any scope

The jsp page reads....

<logic:iterate name="user_friends" id="friend" scope="request">
<tr>
<td>
<bean:write name="friend" property="first_name" />
</td>
<td>
<bean:write name="friend" property="last_name" />
</td>
</tr>
</logic:iterate>

The form-bean entry in struts-config.xml file reads:

Can anyone help me with this?

Try

<logic:iterate name="LoginForm" property="user_friends" id="friend">
..
<bean:write name="friend" property="first_name" />
...
</logic:iterate>

if logic:iterate

Name - is the name of form bean you are declaring in struts-config
property - is the collection object you need to iterate
id - the id you are giving for collection object to be iterated

and when using bean:write

name = id you declared in logic:iterate
property = the variable inside the object from the collection you are iterating.
eg: List friends contains list of objects of type friend.

So when iterating friends you will get a friend object
which will have "first name" variable , with getter/setter methods.

HTH

Show us the action class that forwards to this JSP.

package com.volhome;
 
import java.sql.Connection;
import java.sql.DriverManager;
import java.sql.ResultSet;
import java.sql.Statement;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import javax.naming.InitialContext;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpSession;
import org.apache.struts.action.Action;
import org.apache.struts.action.ActionForm;
import org.apache.struts.action.ActionMapping;
import org.apache.struts.action.ActionForward;
 
public class FriendsAction extends Action {
    private final static String SUCCESS = "success";
    private final static String FAILURE = "failure";
    public ActionForward execute(ActionMapping mapping, ActionForm  form,
            HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response)
            throws Exception {
        HttpSession session = request.getSession();
        ArrayList user_friends = new ArrayList();
        LoginForm test = (LoginForm) session.getAttribute("userdata");
        String userID=test.getUserID();
        Friend temp_friend = new Friend();
        try{
            InitialContext ctx = new InitialContext();
            Class.forName("com.mysql.jdbc.Driver");
            Connection conn = DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:mysql://127.0.0.1/volunteer_gb","root", "rohini");
//                Connection conn = DriverManager.getConnection(,"root","rohini");
            Statement stmt0 = conn.createStatement();
            Statement stmt1 = conn.createStatement();
            ResultSet rs = stmt0.executeQuery("SELECT DISTINCT friendsid FROM user_friends WHERE " +
                    "userid=\'" + userID + "\' OR friendsid=\'" + userID + "\'");
            while(rs.next()){
                String friendsid = rs.getString("friendsid");
                ResultSet rs1 = stmt1.executeQuery("SELECT first_name,last_name FROM user WHERE " +
                        "userid=\'" + friendsid +"\'");
                while(rs1.next()){
                    Friend friend = new Friend();
                    friend.setFirst_name(rs1.getString("first_name"));
                    friend.setLast_name(rs1.getString("last_name"));
                    user_friends.add(friend);
                }
            }
        }catch(Exception e){System.out.println(e);}
        request.setAttribute("user_friends",user_friends);
        return mapping.findForward(SUCCESS);
    }
}

Thats my action class
And it is being called from this page

The action looks OK. Did you remember to include a <%@ taglib> declaration for the logic tag library in your JSP? If you didn't, that would cause this problem.

Ranjit your method is not working....

Yupsie Merylll.. thanks a lot... got the prob [

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