My mistake. I was thinking DynaActionForm is a Map. It'd be a shame to not be able to use JSTL and DynaActionForm together (I think). As a general question, How much work would it be to have a MappedDynaActionForm subclassing DynaActionForm as an optional base class for our forms?
,boz -----Original Message----- From: Joe Germuska [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2002 8:43 AM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Re: DynaActionForm and JSTL (was RE: DynaActionForm Advantages) This would only work if ${form} implemented the Map interface. Making the DynaBean interface extend the Map interface seems like a lot of overkill considering the number of places people might want to use it that have nothing to do with the JSTL... Maybe you could make a case for having DynaActionForm implement Map, with a bunch of unsupported operations and delegating to the values hash otherwise. It's still kind of cluttered, but at least it's off in Struts serving a specific need, instead of in beanutils. Joe At 8:19 AM -0700 2002/07/09, Jennings, Christofer J. wrote: >Looking at the JSTL 1.0 specification, section 3.3, leads me to believe that >DynaActionForm "properties" can be accessed through the JSTL EL but with a >different syntax than a regular JavaBean property. > >Example: > Regular JavaBean (e.g., ActionForm) EL syntax: > <c:out value="${form.aProperty}"/> > <c:out value="${form.aProperty.aSubProperty}"/> > Map (e.g., DynaActionForm) EL syntax: > <c:out value='${form["aProperty"]}'/> > <c:out value='${form["aProperty"].aSubProperty}'/> > >If anyone has done this sort of thing I'd sure like to know how it works. >Especially how/if accessing "aSubProperty". > >I'm stuck using a container that can't support JSTL and I'm also not using >Struts 1.1 yet either so I can't confirm any of this. > ><c:out value='${me["2cents"]}'/>, >boz > >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >Sent: Monday, July 08, 2002 6:19 PM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: RE: DynaActionForm Advantages > > >But are DynaActionForm's compatible with JSTL? > >A discussion on taglibs-user made me think not: >http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=taglibs-user&m=102433015725228&w=2 > >Eddie -- -- * Joe Germuska { [EMAIL PROTECTED] } "It's pitiful, sometimes, if they've got it bad. Their eyes get glazed, they go white, their hands tremble.... As I watch them I often feel that a dope peddler is a gentleman compared with the man who sells records." --Sam Goody, 1956 tune in posse radio: <http://www.live365.com/stations/289268> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
