Bingo, that was it. The link you sent dealt with exatly what I was
talking about.
Thank you sir.
:)
On 4/13/05, David Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hey
>
> That totally makes sense, and I definitely see hot to iterate through
> a collection of Strings or other straightforward things, but what I'm
> confused about is that my PortfolioBeanCollection (extends ArrayList)
> contains objects of type "PortfolioBean" which in turn contain the
> attribute I'm trying to display..so the PortfolioBean itself has no
> explicit name to which I can refer...
>
> so I really want to do something like
>
> PortfolioBeanCollection.PortfolioBean.portfolioName
>
> normally, I'd just loop through the PortfolioBeanCollection casting
> the resulting Object into a PortfolioBean then calling the
> getPortfolioName() method on the bean
>
> The examples I'be found deal more with simple Collections of Strings,
> ints, etc. where you might have a collection of "teachers" for example
> and want to print out the firstName attribute of each... whereas my
> example has another later.
>
> I might be babbling. Does that make sense?
>
> On 4/13/05, Dave Newton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > David Johnson wrote:
> >
> > >that makes sense, but the individual portfolios (the members of the
> > >PortfolioBeanCollection) dont really have a name, I just looped
> > >through my result set doing
> > >
> > >PortfolioBeanCollection PBC=new PortfolioBeanCollection ();
> > >while (result.hasnext){
> > > pbc.add (new PortfolioBean(resultSet.getString("namefield")));
> > >}
> > >
> > >so I really just used the PortfolioBeanCollection as if it were a
> > >garden variety ArrayList.... does your comment still apply?
> > >
> > >
> > Of course--you have to tell the <c:out...> tag a) what bean to get the
> > property from and b) what property to display. When you say <c:forEach
> > items="${userPortfolios}"...> you are telling c:forEach what collection
> > to use for the iteration. When you say <c:forEach var="portfolio"...>
> > you are creating a variable you can use in other JSTL tags--in essence
> > naming each portfolio bean "portfolio" for the purposes of JSTL.
> >
> > But you still have to tell <c:out...> what bean and what property,
> > otherwise how would it know what to print? When you just say <c:out
> > value="${portfolioName}"/> it's looking for an application, session,
> > request, or page scoped attribute named "portfolioName". Without the
> > prepended "portfolio" it doesn't know that the property "portfolioName"
> > is associated with a bean created through the c:forEach iterator.
> >
> > I'd recommend checking out some very basic JSTL docs to get a feel for
> > how JSTL works:
> > http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2002/08/14/jstl1.html
> > http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2002/09/11/jstl2.html
> >
> > Dave
> >
> > (Wouldn't it have been quicker to just but the property name in your
> > code and see if it worked?)
> >
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