RE: accessing a HashMap from JXTemplate

[Christopher Oliver]

Try this:

#{form/errors[/constants/NAME_FIELD]}



-----Original Message-----
From: Jeremy Quinn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Friday, August 08, 2003 12:47 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: accessing a HashMap from JXTemplate

Hi All,

In my model, validation errors on a FormBean are added to a HashMap 
that is a property of that FormBean.

ie.

if (getName() == null || "".equals (getName()) || DEFAULT_NAME.equals 
(getName ())) {
        mErrors.put (Constants.NAME_FIELD, "Please enter a proper
name");
}

I then expected to be able to extract these errors from JXTemplate like 
this:

<t:if test="#{form/errors[constants/NAME_FIELD] != ''}">
        <span
style="color:red">#{form/errors[constants/NAME_FIELD]}</span>
</t:if>

but it does not output anything, so I tried this :

<t:forEach items="#{form/errors}">
        <tr valign="top">
                <td>#{name()}</td>
                <td>#{.}</td>
        </tr>
</t:forEach>

but got unexpected results :

<tr valign="top">
        <td>{name=Please enter a proper name}</td>
        <td>{name=Please enter a proper name}</td>
</tr>


Anyone work out what I am doing wrong?

thanks for any help

regards Jeremy