On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, Simon Kelly wrote:

> Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 14:52:11 +0100
> From: Simon Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: Struts Users Mailing List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Struts Users Mailing List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Digester getting recursive tag types.
>
> Hi all,
>
> I am trying to load a set of beans using the Digester.  One of the beans
> (Menu) will contain beans of the same type within.  The basic layout of a
> page follows with what I think is the correct way of dragging in recursive
> tags (IE SubMenu is of type Menu).  Can anyone verify if this is even in the
> right ball park?
>

Two suggestions:

* In your property setter rules, you'll want to specify
  the name of the JavaBean property in lower case, not
  capitalized.

* For the recursive rule, Digester doesn't recognize
  an asterisk in the middle.  Just simplify this to:
  "*/SubMenu".


> Cheers
>
> Simon.
>
> PS
> I can't run it yet cause I'm only part way through workig out how to extract
> it all afterwards.
>

Check out the way Struts 1.1 builds a ModuleConfig tree, and extracts it
out, for ideas on how to handle this.

Craig


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