Re: html:link problem

[troy hart]

Additionally, you can always use the type property to in effect "cast" a bean that you define, so you could do this:   <bean:define id="myCollectionElement" name="someBean" property="collectionElement" type="com.abc.struts.MyCollectionElementType"> <html:link page="/target.cm" paramId="value" paramName="<%= myCollectionElement.getId() %>">click here</html:link>   This way your referece to myCollectionElement will be of the correct type, so getId() will be valid...   Hope this helps,   Troy ----- Original Message ----- From: troy hart To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2001 2:44 PM Subject: Re: html:link problem Well, there are a few different ways to handle this. One possible scenario is this:   <bean:define id="myId" name="myCollectionElement" property="id"/> <html:link page="/target.cm" paramId="value" paramName="<%= myId %>">click here</html:link>     ----- Original Message ----- From: Rama Krishna To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2001 2:40 PM Subject: Re: html:link problem cause it assumes myCollectionElement as a normal java Object and says no method getId() in java.lang.Object       ----- Original Message ----- From: troy hart To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2001 1:36 PM Subject: Re: html:link problem What doesn't work with that??? ----- Original Message ----- From: Rama Krishna To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2001 2:25 PM Subject: Re: html:link problem no. this doesn't work. then i'll have to use jsp bean tag and do this.   is there anyother way???     ----- Original Message ----- From: troy hart To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2001 1:08 PM Subject: Re: html:link problem To the best of knowledge, you can't use the <bean:write> tag that way. I believe it would be:   <html:link page="/target.cm" paramId="value" paramName="<%= myCollectionElement.getId() %>">click here</html:link>     Hope this helps... ----- Original Message ----- From: Rama Krishna To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2001 1:09 PM Subject: html:link problem is this correct   <html:link page="/target.cm" paramId="value" paramName="<bean:write name='myCollectionElement' property='id'/>">click here</html:link>   where myCollectionElement is a  collection             id is a property in the collection   and i want  http://..../target.cm?value=2 (value of id)   i get null when i say   req.getParameter("value"); in my action class??   any help???   thanks, rama