Ok, that explains why I couldn't do it ;-) Just thought it'd be nice to be able to call methods like that and pass it String arguments.
I did already wrap my lucene search results in a List so I could pass that list to the dataTable. But the Hit's in the list had a Hit.getDocument.fiels() method returning the Fields (no get you see). I now also wrapped the Hit's and added the getters I needed. Thank you, joost JS Portal - Support Dasstraat 21 2623CB Delft the Netherlands E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] W: www.jsportal.com -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Craig McClanahan Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2007 2:45 AM To: user@shale.apache.org Subject: Re: EL question On 1/16/07, JS Portal Support <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Maybe an ignorant (and more a simple JSP) question, but I can't seem to > figure out how to make an EL call that does: > > > > org.apache.lucene.document.Document.get(String nameOfField) > > > > I have my Hits (wrapped in a custom HitsToListWrapper) nicely accessible > for > each row of my dataTable (#{hit.document.butWhatHere}), but am struggling > with just this last seemingly simple step. The EL used by JSP and JSF does not include support for arbitrary method calls with parameters. It can only call JavaBeans property getters (and setters, in the case of JSF expressions). You'll need to point your expression at something that looks like getFoo(). The other thing to note is that a data table already knows how to iterate over a List or array, so just pointing at one of those directly is the easiest approach. Thanks, > > Joost Craig
