Anyone can update the wiki. Sounds like it would be good if you documented
the grief you had on that page so that others could benefit.
Niall
----- Original Message -----
From: "Slattery, Tim - BLS" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "'Struts Users Mailing List'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, November 19, 2004 2:31 PM
Subject: RE: Indexed properties
> > Could not get the wiki's example of
> >
> > public class SkillActionForm extends ActionForm {
> > protected List skills = new ArrayList();
> >
> > public List getSkills() {
> > return skills;
> > }
> >
> > public void setSkills(List skills) {
> > this.skills = skills;
> > }
> >
> > public SkillBean getSkills(int index) {
> > // automatically grow List size
> > while (index >= skills.size()) {
> > skills.add(new SkillBean());
> > }
> > return (SkillBean)skills.get(index);
> > }
> > }
> >
> > However, as soon as I changed the setSkills(List) to
> > setSkills(SkillBean) and provided a non-bean collection
> > populating method (populateSkills(List)) everything seems to
> > work. Apparently Struts is/cannot examine the method
> > arguments and is confused by the naming.
>
> I just went through a lot of grief with indexed properties. The Java Beans
> spec says that accessor methods for indexed properties have the following
> signatures:
>
> public myobj[] getProperty()
> public void setProperty(myobj[] mo)
> public myobj getProperty(int i)
> public void setProperty(int I, myobj mo)
>
> The unindexed accessors must take and return an array, no other kind of
> collection will do.
>
> My problem was that the BEA Weblogic server on my local computer has a JVM
> that does not enforce that rigorously, and is perfectly happy with
unindexed
> accessors that take other kinds of collections. But once I've got my app
> working on my own machine, I deploy it to a larger machine that's
available
> to the testers and users. And that machine's JVM will not recognize an
> indexed property if the unindexed accessors use anything other than an
> array. I was using an ArrayList, and that caused the server to tell me
that
> the property did not exist!
>
> --
> Tim Slattery
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
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