I agree with you, I don't use JSTL at all except forEach because of
the few limitations of the iterator tag. I will take a look at it.
regards
musachy
On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 9:45 PM, Ignacio de Córdoba <icord...@skios.es> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> thanks for your reply.
> Well... I have to iterate through a collection accesible in a struts2
> Action. I can make that object visible to the page/request scope and then
> access it from JSTL <c:forEach>; in fact I am doing that for dynamic images
> as strugs2 has no IMG tag to use OGNL directly. Very painful when someone is
> used to access the object from the tag itself. Moreover... I am really
> trying to forget about EL and JSTL. I really don't find my self confortable
> using 3 different expression languages / tag libs in my pages. I didn't have
> to (in struts1) but maybe I have to accept that idea now.
> Moreover, EL is obsolete when compared to OGNL (oh god... when I discovered
> I could do #{people.size()} I just didn't believe it!!! Direct access to
> methods. JSTL hasn't been improved for 4 (5?) years! Method access,
> valuestack... and I am new to OGNL. Don't know 50% of its power!
>
> More situations: I made my HTML designers learn JSTL. Now I have to make
> them learn OGNL and I am sure they'll have problems with both things mixed.
> Of course, I'd like new people in the company thinking about the
> presentation layer just to handle one thing.
>
> Why doesn't OGNL team focus on making it possible to forget about JSTL+EL
> and just use OGNL for every thing? It nearly does!!!! and just because a
> couple of minor glitches we can't. (Another example... s:a tag doesn't have
> "target" attribute. I have then to use HTML tag directly, what forces me
> to transfer the href data in the Action to an object in the page scope and
> use EL where. Painful for something that should be straightforward.
>
> Well... sorry for the long text. Please don't take me wrong. Just love
> struts2 and would love to forget about old technnologies. I wish I had time
> and knowledge to help on all this. Now I just can't.
>
>
> newton.dave wrote:
>>
>> Ignacio de Córdoba wrote:
>>> Hi there,
>>> I've checked struts2 docs and this forum and have found no inside syntax
>>> for
>>> s:iterator tag to do:
>>> <c:forEach var='' value='${}' being='1' end='4'/>
>>>
>>> Examples in docs just show how to count from 1 to 5 ¿? I'd like to avoid
>>> counting and using indexed property to access an iterator. The last
>>> example
>>> in docs doesnt seem to work if I replace "this" with the property/objet I
>>> want to iterate.
>>>
>>> I am sure struts2 team has thought of a way to do some partial iterator
>>> (I
>>> can also do the full iterator and do a s:if to show only 5 values using
>>> status.index, but doesn't seem a nice solution.
>>
>> Any reason you can't use <c:forEach...>? <s:iterator doesn't have the
>> same functionality.
>>
>> Dave
>>
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