No getter method for property name of bean userList

[Sanjay Deshpande]

I have a login form that leads to another action form.
This populates an Arraylist from database and puts in request
ArrayList userList = getUser();
request.setAttribute("userList",userList);
When i try to access values from action-class , all values from database are printed as well.
I have following code in jsp:
<logic:iterate id="userList" name="userList" scope="request" >
<bean:write name="userList" property="name" />
</logic:iterate>
I get folowing error :
No getter method for property name of bean userList
Any clue?

[Junilu Lacar]

You choice of names is not exactly ideal. getUser() should return a list whose elements are objects that have a getName() method. To improve readability, I suggest that you write something like:

<logic:iterate id="user" name="userList" scope="request" >
   <bean:write name="user" property="name" /><br />
</logic:iterate>

This results in logic that in effect does this:

Collection foo = (Collection) request.getAttribute("userList");
for (Iterator i = foo.iterator(); i.hasNext(); ) {
    Object user = i.next();
    out.print([I]user.getName()[/I]);
    out.print("<br />");
}

The italicized code won't work as is but is what effectively happens.
[ August 27, 2003: Message edited by: Junilu Lacar ]