Thanks for the clarification Niall. I was under the impression that the tag had to be EL aware even in a container that supports EL.
robert > -----Original Message----- > From: Niall Pemberton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, August 06, 2004 10:17 AM > To: Struts Users Mailing List > Subject: Re: Problem setting nested bean properties on ActionForms > > > Not if hes using a servlet container that supports el. > > Niall > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Robert Taylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Struts Users Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Friday, August 06, 2004 2:25 PM > Subject: RE: Problem setting nested bean properties on ActionForms > > > > Since you are using an EL construct in the value attribute > > of the <html:text .../>, you will need to import the > > Struts html-el tag library so that the tag "knows" how > > to extract information from the scoped attribute. > > > > robert > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Ricardo Gladwell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Sent: Friday, August 06, 2004 9:03 AM > > > To: Jakarta Struts Users > > > Subject: Problem setting nested bean properties on ActionForms > > > > > > > > > Hi All, > > > > > > I'm having some problems with nested properties in Strust. Struts seems > > > to loose property values when specifying nested bean properties in > > > an action form. For example, the following fragment is an example of > > > attempting to set a value in a view JSP: > > > > > > <html:text property="webdav.url" value="${config.webdav.url}"/> > > > > > > When Struts attempts to set the webdav.url nested bean property for, > > > example, a DynaActionForm the value is passed as null to the action form > > > setter method. > > > > > > In the documentation it clearly states that "the property attribute for > > > the Struts-HTML tags accept simple, nested, and indexed expressions": > > > > > > > http://struts.apache.org/api/org/apache/struts/taglib/html/package-summary.html#package_description > > > > > > I checked and the property setter method for the DynaActionForm in the > > > example I cited is being called and the 'webdav.url' string is being > > > passed as the property name but the property value passed is 'null' > > > despite the fact that I have entered a value. When I switch to using > > > standard, non-nested property name values in the html:text tag the > > > values are set correctly. > > > > > > Is this proper behaviour for Struts or is it some kind of bug? > > > > > > Kind regards... > > > > > > -- Ricardo > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
