If I understand your question - "do I have a collection of collections" no I
don't - I have a collection of SimpleMenuItem(s) the SimpleMenuItem is not a
collection it is just an object with four properties. It is a
org.apache.struts.tiles.beans.SimpleMenuItem
Back to the original jsp code - it appears to be pretty vanilla. The tiles
tag adds the topnav collection to the pagecontext.
<tiles:importAttribute />
<core:forEach var="menuItem" varStatus="status" items="${topnav}">
<html:message name="menuItem" property="value"/>
</core:forEach>
-Jerry
-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Barrows [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, December 03, 2004 9:08 AM
To: Struts Users Mailing List
Subject: RE: JSTL, Tiles PutList and Tomcat 5.028
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jerry Rodgers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Friday, December 03, 2004 9:55 AM
> To: 'Struts Users Mailing List'
> Subject: RE: JSTL, Tiles PutList and Tomcat 5.028
>
>
> Thanks James,
>
> It looks like if I put a break point in the setItems() method
> of the forEach
> I am passed a string - that string appears to be the
> .toString() of the
> SimpleMenuItem(s) collection.
>
> I check the .toString() of SimpleMenuItem and it has the
> format of the long
> string below from my previous message - i.e. the 5 or so items in the
> collection.
>
> How does / or should the ForEach turn that string back into a
> collection of
> items.
If I understand what you're saying.... You have something like:
Collection foo;
Collection bar;
bar.add(foo);
then something like foo[i][j] MIGHT work.
On the other hand ifyou have just a collletion fo foo.. you want foo[i].
>
> When looking at the parameter on the method signature I had
> expected that I
> would get the "EXPRESSION" that needed to be evaluated by
> jstl within the
> tag instead it appears the expression has been run prior to
> the call of the
> method an then the .toString() has been called.
>
> Thanks for everyone's help and input on this - I have now
> spent two/three
> very late nights tracking this down.
>
> -Jerry
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Barrows [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Friday, December 03, 2004 8:45 AM
> To: Struts Users Mailing List
> Subject: RE: JSTL, Tiles PutList and Tomcat 5.028
>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jerry Rodgers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: Friday, December 03, 2004 9:20 AM
> > To: 'Struts Users Mailing List'; 'Mark Lowe'
> > Subject: RE: JSTL, Tiles PutList and Tomcat 5.028
> >
> >
> > One other thing to add :> there is a "key" in the pageContext
> > attributes
> > called topnav and that DOES contain an actual collection of
> > SimpleMenuItems.
> > The plot thickens - how does the ForEach get the collection?
>
> I think it looks up the scope chain.... request, session, application
>
> >
> > -Jerry
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jerry Rodgers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: Friday, December 03, 2004 8:02 AM
> > To: 'Struts Users Mailing List'; 'Mark Lowe'
> > Subject: RE: JSTL, Tiles PutList and Tomcat 5.028
> >
> > Hi Matk,
> >
> > I have the following statement
> >
> > <tiles:importAttribute />
> >
> > Which I "think" am lead to believe it imports all the
> > attributes into the
> > page scope.
> >
> > In an effort to figure out what was happening I downloaded
> > the jstl 1.0.6
> > and built a debug project in eclipse so I could step into the
> > ForEach tag
> > and I am not sure what I am really looking at yet in there
> > but it appears
> > that indeed the item does contain a string and that the items
> > collection on
> > the tag has a "somewhat" string delimited representation of
> > the collection.
> >
> > See below: This is that actual value in the string in the
> > debugger... Is
> > this how it is stored then is ir "reconstituted" into
> > SimpleMenuItem(s) as
> > the tag loops. The string "looks" like a collection because
> > of the "," i.e.
> > it looks like a string tokenizer.
> >
> > [SimpleMenuItem[value=nav.adminhome,
> > link=/aems/session/changefiltertoken.do?btnResetFilter=true,
> > tooltip=impersonationItem, ], SimpleMenuItem[value=nav.account,
> > link=/aems/party/persondetail.do, ],
> > SimpleMenuItem[value=nav.organization,
> > link=/aems/party/organizationdetail.do, ],
> > SimpleMenuItem[value=nav.library,
> > link=/aems/file/filelibrarylist.do, ],
> > SimpleMenuItem[value=nav.addressbook,
> > link=/aems/communication/personsearchlist.do, ],
> > SimpleMenuItem[value=nav.help, link=#, tooltip=help, ],
> > SimpleMenuItem[value=nav.logout, link=/aems/logout.do, ]]
> >
> > And give this sting in the items - the actual when call to
> > next() within the
> > EnumeratonAdapter way in the ForEachSupport class actuall calls the
> > StringTokenizer and returns an item of:
> >
> > [SimpleMenuItem[value=nav.adminhome
> >
> > So it looks like it went to the first "," and thus the
> > subject of my email
> > might really be changed to: "What is causing ForEach to
> > read/load my tiles
> > putlist collection as a string and not as a collection of the
> > SimpleMenuItems they really are"? Pretty darn long subject :>
> >
> >
> > On a side note - not sure if this means anything - when I
> compiled the
> > course I was required by eclipse to add two new methods to the
> > PageContextImpl in the
> > org.apache.taglibs.standard.lang.jstl.test package
> > does it looks like perhaps the different JSP version might be
> > an issue. i.e.
> > will jstl 1.0.6 work in Tomcat 5.0.28?
> >
> >
> > /* (non-Javadoc)
> > * @see javax.servlet.jsp.JspContext#getExpressionEvaluator()
> > */
> > public ExpressionEvaluator getExpressionEvaluator() {
> > // TODO Auto-generated method stub
> > return null;
> > }
> >
> > /* (non-Javadoc)
> > * @see javax.servlet.jsp.JspContext#getVariableResolver()
> > */
> > public VariableResolver getVariableResolver() {
> > // TODO Auto-generated method stub
> > return null;
> > }
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Jerry
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Mark Lowe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: Friday, December 03, 2004 2:49 AM
> > To: Struts Users Mailing List
> > Subject: Re: JSTL, Tiles PutList and Tomcat 5.028
> >
> > Have you done this in the jsp?
> >
> > <tiles:useAttribute name="topnav" scope="page" />
> >
> > MArk
> >
> > On Thu, 2 Dec 2004 12:39:01 -0700, Jim Barrows
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: Jerry Rodgers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > > Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2004 12:11 PM
> > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > > Subject: JSTL, Tiles PutList and Tomcat 5.028
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Hi All,
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > I have a jsp page that I am trying to run on Tomcat that
> > > > currently works in
> > > > Weblogic. It appears the primary problem is that the forEach
> > > > tag is not
> > > > putting the variable menuItem into the pageContext attributes
> > > > and or it
> > > > thinks the menuItem is of type String. I am not sure
> > where my actually
> > > > problem is (tiles, tomcat etc).
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > It appears Tomcat is generating code when compiling the JSP
> > > > that isn't aware
> > > > of the type of class the
> > > > org.apache.struts.tiles.beans.SimpleMenuItem is -
> > > > it looks like at run time it thinks it is a String.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > A snippet of my JSP looks like this (jstl tags - partial):
> > > >
> > > > <core:forEach var="menuItem" varStatus="status"
> items="${topnav}">
> > > >
> > > > <core:choose>
> > > >
> > > > <core:when test="${menuItem.tooltip=='help'}">
> > >
> > > I do something similar in my code, and it works.
> > > It does look like it's not figuring out what type the menuItem is
> > though....
> > >
> > > <snip/>
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > >
> > > > When I check the pageContext attributes via a debugger I
> > > > actually see an
> > > > item in the collection with the key "topnav" and it contains
> > > > a Vector of
> > > > items that appear to be of type SimpleMenuItem. However I
> > > > never see the item
> > > > called menuItem that I thought the forEach tag would place in
> > > > there for me.
> > >
> > > And I think the tutorial is agreeing with you:
> > > The forEach tag allows you to iterate over a collection of
> > objects. You
> > specify the collection via the items attribute, and the
> > current item is
> > available through a scope variable named by the item attribute.
> > >
> > > A large number of collection types are supported by
> > forEach, including all
> > implementations of java.util.Collection and java.util.Map. If
> > the items
> > attribute is of type java.util.Map, then the current item
> > will be of type
> > java.util.Map.Entry, which has the following properties:
> > >
> > > * key - the key under which the item is stored in the
> > underlying Map
> > > * value - the value that corresponds to the key
> > >
> > > Arrays of objects as well as arrays of primitive types (for
> > example, int)
> > are also supported. For arrays of primitive types, the
> > current item for the
> > iteration is automatically wrapped with its standard wrapper
> > class (for
> > example, Integer for int, Float for float, and so on).
> > >
> > > Implementations of java.util.Iterator and
> java.util.Enumeration are
> > supported but these must be used with caution. Iterator and
> > Enumeration
> > objects are not resettable so they should not be used within
> > more than one
> > iteration tag. Finally, java.lang.String objects can be
> > iterated over if the
> > string contains a list of comma separated values (for example:
> > Monday,Tuesday,Wednesday,Thursday,Friday).
> > >
> > > Here's the shopping cart iteration from the previous
> > section with the
> > forEach tag:
> > >
> > > <c:forEach var="item" items="${sessionScope.cart.items}">
> > > ...
> > > <tr>
> > > <td align="right" bgcolor="#ffffff">
> > > ${item.quantity}
> > > </td>
> > > ...
> > > </c:forEach>
> > >
> > > The forTokens tag is used to iterate over a collection of
> > tokens separated
> > by a delimiter.
> > > from
> http://java.sun.com/webservices/docs/1.3/tutorial/doc/index.html
> >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Thanks for any help you may be able to provide,
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Jerry Rodgers
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
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