type ForTokensTag is not applicable for the arguments (Object)

[Alessandro Ilardo]

Hello there,
I'm trying to display a kind of preview for a text. But on JBoss 4.2.2 I take the following error.

javax.servlet.jsp.JspException: ServletException in '/WEB-INF/jsp/home.jsp': Unable to compile class for JSP:

An error occurred at line: 54 in the jsp file: /WEB-INF/jsp/home.jsp
The method setItems(String) in the type ForTokensTag is not applicable for the arguments (Object)
51: <% // FocusOn - description%>
52:
53:
54: <c:forTokens var="token" items="${entry.description}" delims=" " end="200">
55: <c:out value="${token}"/>
56: </c:forTokens>
57: ...


Stacktrace:
at org.apache.struts.taglib.logic.ForwardTag.doForward(ForwardTag.java:125)

The property's bean which I'm trying to access is a String type.


The code above is nested to this tag belowe

<% // FocusOn%>
<c:forEach var="entry" items="${focusOn}" end="0">
 

This comes out from the entity called during the iteration

    @Column(columnDefinition="TEXT")
    private String description;

What's the problem then??
Thanks in advance
[ August 11, 2008: Message edited by: Alessandro Ilardo ]

[Bear Bibeault]

Does the bean have a description property accessor that gives access to the member variable?

[Alessandro Ilardo]

Of course

public String getDescription() {
        return description;
    }
    
    public void setDescription(String description) {
        this.description = description;
    }

But the error doesn't say that cannot find that property, instead it says that the property is not a String.

[Bear Bibeault]

Originally posted by Alessandro Ilardo:
Of course

Of course? If you don't give us the details, we can;t guess.