I am using an iterate tag to iterate over a List of items that have a given
category. I need to be able to determine when a given category has changed
when iterating and push out a header row in a table that I am generating.
Is there a way that I can look back a row or save the category from the
previous row so that I can compare it with the current row to determine
whether or not a category break has occurred. Here is a snippet of my
code:
<%
String previousCategory = "<empty>";
%>
<table width="100%" border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="3"
frame="hsides">
<tr>
<th align="left" nowrap>Filename</th>
<th align="center">Description</th>
</tr>
<logic:iterate id="currElement" name="dbFileBean" property="records"
indexId="index">
<logic:notEqual name="currElement.categoryName"
value="<%=previousCategory%>">
<tr>
<td colspan="6"
class="groupBreak"><b><bean:write name="currElement"
property="categoryDesc"/></b><a name="<bean:write name="currElement"
property="categoryName"/>"></a></td>
</tr>
</logic:notEqual>
<tr bgcolor="<%=colors[index.intValue()%2]%>">
<td align="left" nowrap><img
src="/images/common/spacer.gif" width="15" height="10">
<a
href="documentsandfiles?fileId=<bean:write name="currElement"
property="fileId"/>"><bean:write name="currElement"
property="fileName"/></a>
</td>
<td align="left">
<bean:write name="currElement"
property="description"/>
</td>
</tr>
<% previousCategory =
((DbFileInfo)currElement).getCategoryName(); %>
</logic:iterate>
</table>
The way that I am attempting it from above is not working, the notEqual tag
is not seeing that the strings are equal. I would like to be able to get
all the scriplets out of the jsp if possible.
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
________________________
Marty B. Jones
Senior Software Engineer
DailyAccess.Com
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