Hi guys,
DynaActionForm has a method in it called getMap() which will return a map of
its properties. So to get it to work in JSTL, you just need one more thing
in your tag. Here is an example:
<c:out value="${adminDownloadForm.map.idFlag}"/>
Hope this helps,
Peter
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Peter Smith
Software Engineer
InfoNow Corporation
> From: Hans Bergsten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: "Tag Libraries Users List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Sat, 05 Jul 2003 18:42:26 -0700
> To: Tag Libraries Users List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: Problems with <c:out> tag
>
> Billy Bacon wrote:
>> Thanks for your response Hans, that was very helpful. This might be more of
>> a Struts issue then because I don't have a JavaBean for my 'Form' object. I
>> use the Struts DynaActionForm object which does all the 'getting' and
>> 'setting' for you. I have this element defined in my struts-config.xml
>> file...
>>
>> <form-bean name="adminDownloadForm"
>> type="org.apache.struts.action.DynaActionForm">
>>
>> <form-property name="idFlag" type="java.lang.Boolean" />
>>
>> </form-bean>
>>
>> Defining the property 'idFlag' with a type Boolean is all I have to do and
>> Struts pretty much does the rest of the getting/setting. I'm not sure how
>> the DynaActionForm is implemented since it's a core Struts class but in
>> anycase it doesn't look like I could fix this since I don't define the Bean.
>
> Ah, that explains it; JSTL knows nothing about the DynaActionForm class.
> IIRC, it's more or less a Map, but still not enough of a Map to be
> recognized as such by the JSTL EL.
>
> So in your case, may want to continue to use the Struct logic library
> instead of using JSTL's <c:if> for testing property values of these things.
>
> Hans
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> Details at <http://TheJSPBook.com/>
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