RE: jsp function declaration

[Jurrius, Mark]

Your else statement is missing a bracket.  Try using } else {

Hope it helps.

Mark


-----Original Message-----
From:   Jason Novotny [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent:   Thursday, April 26, 2001 2:44 PM
To:     [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject:        jsp function declaration 


Hi,

    I have  a very simple JSP function that looks like:

<%! public String isSelected(String var, String checkvar) {
             if (var.equals(checkvar)) {
                 return "selected";
             } else
                 return "";
             }
        }
%>

    Only problem is whenever I load my page, I get the following error:

org.apache.jasper.JasperException: Unable to compile
/usr/local/tomcat/tomcat-3.3-m2/work/DEFAULT/demo/jsp/filetransfer/showfiles
_1.java:25:
Class or interface declaration expected.
    static {
    ^
/usr/local/tomcat/tomcat-3.3-m2/work/DEFAULT/demo/jsp/filetransfer/showfiles
_1.java:13:
class jsp.filetransfer.showfiles_1 must be declared abstract. It does
not define void _jspService(javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest,
javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse) from class
org.apache.jasper.runtime.HttpJspBase.
public class showfiles_1 extends org.apache.jasper.runtime.HttpJspBase {

             ^
2 errors


    I've tried adding thsi snippet to the numguess.jsp example without
any problem and all the books I've read indicate this is perfectly
acceptable programming.

    Any ideas, why adding methods doesn't work with my page?

    Thanks very much, Jason


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