No getter method for property - Problem

Hi Everyone,

I'm new working with Struts and I get an error "No getter method for property author."

Sorry to post the code, but I'm hoping that someone could tell me what
I'm doing wrong. I haven't been able to figure this out and the solutions
in another thread about this don't work.

The code is as follows:

-- Book.java:

package com.mycompany;

public class Book implements java.io.Serializable {

private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;

private long id;
private String title;
private String author;
private char available;

public Book() {}

public Book(long id, String title, String author, char available) {
this.id = id;
this.title = title;
this.author = author;
this.available = available;
}

public long getId() {
return id;
}

public void setId(long id) {
this.id = id;
}

public String getTitle() {
return title;
}

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

public String getAuthor() {
return author;
}

public void setAuthor(String author) {
this.author = author;
}

public char getAvailable() {
return available;
}

public void setAvailable(char available) {
this.available = available;
}
}

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-- BookListForm.java

package com.mycompany.struts.form;

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Collection;

import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
import org.apache.struts.action.ActionForm;
import org.apache.struts.action.ActionMapping;

/**
* MyEclipse Struts
* Creation date: 06-24-2008
*
* XDoclet definition:
* @struts.form name="bookListForm"
*/

public class BookListForm extends ActionForm {

private Collection books;

/**
* @return the books
*/
public Collection getBooks() {
return books;
}

/**
* @param books the books to set
*/
public void setBooks(Collection books) {
this.books = books;
}

public void reset(ActionMapping mapping, HttpServletRequest request) {
books = new ArrayList();
}

}

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-- BookListAction.java

package com.mycompany.struts.action;

import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;
import org.apache.struts.action.Action;
import org.apache.struts.action.ActionForm;
import org.apache.struts.action.ActionForward;
import org.apache.struts.action.ActionMapping;
import com.mycompany.form.BookListForm;
import com.mycompany.hibernate.*;
import org.hibernate.SessionFactory;
import org.hibernate.Session;
import java.util.Collection;

/**
* MyEclipse Struts
* Creation date: 06-24-2008
*
* XDoclet definition:
* @struts.action path="/bookList" name="bookListForm" input="/jsp/bookList.jsp" scope="request" validate="true"
*/

public class BookListAction extends Action {

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

BookListForm bookListForm = (BookListForm) form;

SessionFactory factory = null;
Session session = null;
Collection books = null;

try {

factory = HibernateUtil.getSessionFactory();

session = (Session) factory.openSession();

books = session.createQuery("select id, title, author, available from Book t ").list();

bookListForm.setBooks(books);

} finally {
session.close();
}

return mapping.findForward("showList");

}
}

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-- bookList.jsp

<%@ page language="java" pageEncoding="ISO-8859-1"%>
<%@ taglib uri="http://jakarta.apache.org/struts/tags-bean" prefix="bean"%>
<%@ taglib uri="http://jakarta.apache.org/struts/tags-html" prefix="html"%>
<%@ taglib uri="http://jakarta.apache.org/struts/tags-logic" prefix="logic" %>

<html>
<head>
<title>Show book list</title>
</head>
<body>
<table border="1">
<tbody>
<%-- set the header --%>
<tr>
<td>Author</td>
<td>Book name</td>
<td>Available</td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
</tr>
<%-- check if book exists and display message or iterate over books --%>
<logic:empty name="bookListForm" property="books">
<tr>
<td colspan="5">No books available</td>
</tr>
</logic:empty>
<logic:notEmpty name="bookListForm" property="books">
<logic:iterate name="bookListForm" property="books" id="book">
<tr>
<%-- print out the book information --%>
<td><bean:write name="book" property="author" /></td>
<td><bean:write name="book" property="title" /></td>
<td><html:checkbox disabled="true" name="book" property="available" />
</td>

<%-- print out the edit and delete link for each book --%>
<td><html:link action="bookEdit.do?do=editBook" paramName="book"
paramProperty="id" paramId="id">Edit</html:link></td>
<td><html:link action="bookEdit.do?do=deleteBook" paramName="book"
paramProperty="id" paramId="id">Delete</html:link></td>
</tr>
</logic:iterate>
</logic:notEmpty>

<%-- print out the add link --%>
<tr>
<td colspan="5"><html:link action="bookEdit.do?do=addBook">Add a new book</html:link>
</td>
</tr>

<%-- end interate --%>

</tbody>
</table>
</body>
</html>

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Sorry for posting the code. Thanks in advance for any help.

Best regards,

Rudi

Hi R Diaz,
This is common problem with list in action form, if contains another Bean.
nested tags will help you.
google on struts nested tags.

Hi all,

I get the same error but my getters and setters are well defined. And both "sender" and "retard" are defined as String(s) in my ActionForm.

When it comes to doing <html:text property="sender" /> in my jsp page, it works fine but when I write <html:text property="retard" />, Tomcat gives me the no getter error and I absolutely don't know why as "sender" and "retard" have similar and interchangeable roles.

I have tried turning tomcat off and on again but nothing improved so I'm wondering if there's some tweak I should know to make this work because it's really driving me crazy at the moment.

Thanks in advance.

Regards,
-- Alain