I'm trying to combine displaytag with Spring a somewhat challenging way and hope someone out there can shed some light on a problem I'm having.
What I'd like to be able to do is use displaytag to handle displaying a table of items. To test the concept, I've adapted the Spring MVC step-by-step app at http://www.springframework.org/docs/MVC-step-by-step/Spring-MVC-step-by-step.html. I've added a property to the Product bean named category and added a few products so that I've got 6 products in 3 categories. For each item (row) in the table, I'll display some properties, very standard stuff. I've got this part working and am able to properly display my category as a string. So the basic data is fine: I've got a category property and it's getting out to the display view properly. Now the tricky part: I want to use the spring:bind and spring:transform tags to convert this data into a drop-down list (i.e., the select tag; don't worry about why I need to do this, I just do!). But just binding to each object causes an error. For example, I have: <display:table name="model.products" id="product"> <display:column property="description"/> <display:column property="price"/> <display:column title="Category"> <spring:bind path="product"> <c:forEach items="${status.errorMessages}" var="error"> Error code: <c:out value="${error}"/><br/> </c:forEach> </spring:bind> </display:column> </display:table> This gives the following exception: Neither Errors instance nor plain target object for bean name 'product' available as request attribute It's not that the row object isn't there. I can remove that category column and replace it with this: <display:column title="Category"> <c:out value="${product.category}"/> </display:column> This displays the product category properly, which means that each object extracted from the list by displaytag is properly resolving. I tried this, which is a bit left field: <spring:bind path="model.products[<%=product_rowNum.intValue()%>]"> The idea here was that I could address the collection from the products property. This failed pretty badly :^) What am I missing here? This has to be possible, but I can NOT figure it out. The only thing that I can think of is that spring:bind needs a bean, meaning I'd need to do something similar to the bean:define tag in Struts, but I'm not certain what that would be within Spring. Any help with this issue would be greatly appreciated! -- Rick Herrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] I haven't got time for inner peace. Get out of control, but appear under control. It's not bad to alarm other people, though--it's good for them.--Hunter S. Thompson ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42" plasma tv or your very own Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php _______________________________________________ displaytag-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/displaytag-user
