I've received that error before when I forgot to include the taglib
directive for the logic library. That would prevent the "field" bean
from being created and result in the error you're seeing.
"Brett G. Palmer" wrote:
>
> I've been working on this <bean:iterate ... > problem for some time now. I
> finally had to use a scriplet to get it to work. I am trying to get a list
> of FieldTypes from a record controller (PrimaryServer below) which implement
> an AbstractField object (this may be the entire problem ... let me know if
> Abstract objects will cause problems). The controller has a method called
> getFieldList which returns an Iterator of these AbstractField objects. I
> then want to get the name of each field using the property getFielName().
> The following is a snippet of my Jsp page. Tomcat always returns with an
> error saying it "can't find bean 'field' in scope null".
>
> <logic:iterate id="field" name="PrimaryServer" property="fieldList"
> type="com.iic.dbsync.IntField">
> <tr>
> <td align="center"> <jsp:getProperty name="PrimaryServer"
> property="fieldList"/>
> <bean:write name="field" property="fielName"/> </td>
> <td> <html:text property="field2" size="100" /></td>
> </tr>
> </logic:iterate>
>
> Here is the scriplet that I wrote to finally get the results that I wanted.
>
> <% Iterator iter = PrimaryServer.getFieldList();
> while( iter.hasNext() ) {
> AbstractField field = (AbstractField) iter.next();
> String fieldName = field.getFieldName();
> %>
> <tr>
> <td align="center"> <%=fieldName%> </td>
> <td> <html:text property="field2" size="100" /></td>
> </tr>
> <% }
> %>
>
> The iterator tag still trips me up from time to time. If anyone has any
> suggestions I would appreciate them. I have enjoyed reading the previous
> postings concerning the iterator tag.
>
> Thanks again,
>
> Brett
