JSTL - c:remove doubt

[Nicky Eng]

been given a scoped attribute lita exist only in a user's session. which two, taken independently, ensure the scoped attribute lita is no longer exist ? (choose 2)

A. <c:remove var="${lita}" />
B. <c:remove var="lita" scope="session" />
C. <c:remove scope="session" > ${lita} </c:remove>
D. <c:remove var="lita" />

my answer would be B and D.

A. would be wrong because inside var attribute must be String literal. it cannot be an expression(according to page 448, HFSJ).

C. i'm not sure about having a body inside <c:remove> .

what do you guys think?? give some opinion please

[Rizwan Mohammad]

Nick, you are absolutely correct.
B & D are correct answers.
look at tld about remove tag.
it is the only core jstl tag, which has body-content as empty.
you cannot have body inside remove tag. so 'c' is wrong.
you cannot have runtime expression for var inside remove tag.
because, it is declared as rtexprvalue = false.
Also, note that 'var' cannot be run time expression value for any of core jstl tags.

[Nicky Eng]

thanks for your info...

[Priya Jothi]

Hey guys..

I dont think D is the correct answer.Only B is correct.coz in option D scope attribute value defaults to "page" if omitted.Will it remove attribute from Session scope also?.I think it wont.Correct me if am wrong.

Regards,
Priya.

[Bear Bibeault]

in option D scope attribute value defaults to "page" if omitted

Incorrect. For the remove tag, omitting the scope removes the variable from all scopes.

Reference: section 4.4 of the JSTL 1.1 Specification
[ October 05, 2005: Message edited by: Bear Bibeault ]

[Vidya Sethuraman]

Hi Priya,

I think <c:remove var="user"/> will remove all the attributes with the name user in all the scopes.

Please refer to the following java ranch discussion:
https://coderanch.com/forums/

[Rizwan Mohammad]

Hi,
To summarize,
According to JSTL spec,
====================(same as jstl spec- copied)================
If attribute scope is not specified, the scoped variable is removed by calling
PageContext.removeAttribute(varName). If attribute scope is specified, the
scoped variable is removed by calling
PageContext.removeAttribute(varName, scope).
============================
According to J2EE spec,
================(same from j2ee api) ============
for pageContext.removeAttribute(String varName)

Remove the object reference associated with the given name from all scopes. Does nothing if there is no such object

for pageContext.removeAttribute(String varName, String scope),

Remove the object reference associated with the specified name in the given scope. Does nothing if there is no such object.

=====================================
To summarize,
<c:remove var="user"/>
if scope is not specified, it removes the value from all scopes.

Hope it is clear.

[Vasanth Raja.K.]

Hi,
I think c is wrong because var attribute is required and c:remove can have body-content.
Plz explain if i am wrong.
Reg
Vasanth

[Rizwan Mohammad]

Hi Raja,
you are partially correct.
for <c:remove> tag, var attribute is mandatory, but it cannot have body-content, in tld it is defined as empty.

[Nicky Eng]

great details, Rizwan.

i postpone my test day to next week cos this weekend i go clubbing.

[Rizwan Mohammad]

okay. All the best Nick. Even I have been postponing for many days as I have heavey work load. But I do write definitely this month some time.
Again, all the best.