makes sense to me. I don't have time to test it this week. Anyone else 
wanna do it before the release?


On Mon, 24 Mar 2003, Dave Hodson wrote:

> I'm saying the opposite. 
> 
> sortColumn is set to "-1" when the display tag is instantiated, but the reset method 
> sets it to "1", which has the (unintentional) effect of auto-sorting the first 
> column!
> 
> To solve this, the "-1" value should be changed to a static constant and used in 
> both places
> 
> Dave
> 
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: John York [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: Friday, March 21, 2003 9:10 PM
> > To: Dave Hodson
> > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: RE: [displaytag-devel] Bug in paging when using Tomcat 4.1.18
> > 
> > 
> > I could be wrong, but I thought that sortColumn = -1 meant that there 
> > wasn't a sort column, which is prefectly valid. Why do you think this 
> > needs to be set to 1? Are you arguing that it should always 
> > sort on the 
> > first column( or, actually second column, since 0 would 
> > technically be the 
> > first, wouldn't it? ). If that's the case, I disagree for 
> > this reason: If 
> > I present the display tag with data that is already sorted, 
> > it should just 
> > display exactly what I give it and not waste time sorting it.
> > 
> > Either way, we need to get some unit tests in here before 
> > making too many 
> > more changes.
> > 
> > John
> > 
> > 
> > On Wed, 19 Mar 2003, Dave Hodson wrote:
> > 
> > > One more bug to submit a change for (I don't have CVS access...)
> > > 
> > > The reset method needs to be modified:
> > > 
> > > currently it is as follows:
> > > 
> > >    public void reset()
> > >    {
> > >       this.pageNumber = 1;
> > >       this.sortColumn = 1;
> > >    }
> > > 
> > > The bug is that this.sortColumn is initialized as "-1", not 
> > "1". To correct this, the reset method should be changed as follows:
> > > 
> > >    public void reset()
> > >    {
> > >       this.pageNumber = 1;
> > >       this.sortColumn = -1; <---- change 
> > >    }
> > > 
> > > Dave
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: Dave Hodson 
> > > > Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2003 3:50 PM
> > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > > Subject: RE: [displaytag-devel] Bug in paging when using 
> > Tomcat 4.1.18
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > Zorzella
> > > > 
> > > > Thanks for the reply - I agree that the code should not cause 
> > > > an exception in the case of the requested pageNumber being 
> > > > greater than the number of available pages. However, the 
> > > > problem I mention stems from the fact that Tomcat is not 
> > > > calling the reset() method anymore, which turns out to mean 
> > > > that the display object values are not reset when a second 
> > > > request is made (!!)  This can literally mean that if you and 
> > > > I are using an application and you hit page 6 and then I use 
> > > > the same thread, the pageNumber value for me will 
> > > > *inititally* be 6, not 1.  
> > > > 
> > > > BTW, I took a look in CVS and the change you submitted 
> > > > (moving this.pageNumber = 1 above the if page != null case) 
> > > > does not fix the issue for sort. I think the best way to 
> > > > solve this is to call reset() as shown below.
> > > > 
> > > > Dave
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > > From: Luiz-Otavio Zorzella [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > > > Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2003 3:43 PM
> > > > > To: Dave Hodson
> > > > > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > > > Subject: Re: [displaytag-devel] Bug in paging when using 
> > > > Tomcat 4.1.18
> > > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > > I don't think the system should ever balk at that kind 
> > of stuff...
> > > > > 
> > > > > Another circumstance this may happen is if the data is erased 
> > > > > from the 
> > > > > DB after you get a page, then you hit another page...
> > > > > 
> > > > > Right now, there is even an "if" for the "exceptional case" 
> > > > that the 
> > > > > collection returned is empty (thus it would not even have a 
> > > > > first page, 
> > > > > you see?).
> > > > > 
> > > > > I think I should just set the current page to be the last 
> > > > > page if it's 
> > > > > more than the number of pages... And to be the first if it's 
> > > > > negative... 
> > > > > why not? Let's do kind of like google:
> > > > > 
> > > > > http://www.google.com/search?q=test&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-
> > > > > 8&start=10000000000000000000&sa=N
> > > > > 
> > > > > http://www.google.com/search?q=test&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-
> > > > > 8&start=-1&sa=N 
> > > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > > I'll do it by tomorrow.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Zorzella
> > > > > 
> > > > > Dave Hodson wrote:
> > > > > > I'm using .8 version of the display tag with Tomcat 4.0.3 
> > > > > and everything works properly
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > Recently, I upgraded to Tomcat version 4.1.18 and have 
> > > > > noticed that the paging functionality does not work properly. 
> > > > > > For example, I create a table that has 8 pages by selecting 
> > > > > a valid date range in an HTML popup. Upon the initial display 
> > > > > of the the table, Page 1 is shown. I then click on Page 6, 
> > > > > which is displayed properly. Next I modify my date range so 
> > > > > that the resulting table consists of only 2 pages.  This 
> > > > > crashes with the msg
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > "Invalid page (6) provided, value should be between 1 and 2'"
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > Digging around, it turns out that Tomcat 4.1.18 no longer 
> > > > > calls the reset() method between calls and this effectively 
> > > > > leaves the value "pageNumber" at 6 the next time a user hits 
> > > > > the screen (the gory details about the Tomcat bug are at 
> > > > http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16001)  
> > > > This bug has been marked INVALID, so I don't think it will be 
> > > > fixed anytime soon.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Has anyone seen this problem and/or is there a fix for 
> > > > this? Seems like the thing to do is call the reset() method 
> > > > in the doStartTag() method, before the request object is 
> > > > obtained. Something like
> > > > > 
> > > > >       columns = new ArrayList( 10 );
> > > > >       reset();  <------ add it here
> > > > >       HttpServletRequest req = 
> > > > (HttpServletRequest)this.pageContext.getRequest();
> > > > > 
> > > > > Thoughts?
> > > > > 
> > > > > Dave
> > > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > > 
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