Re: Need an alternative to bean:define

[Matt Bathje]

Ahh, missed that one - note that it is JSP 1.1, not Struts 1.1.
Never had the limitation, so I can't help with workarounds, sorry!
Matt
Janice wrote:
Thanks Matt, but I think my problem is that I'm using Struts 1.1 (and can't
change it)
According to: http://struts.apache.org/userGuide/struts-bean.html#define
You can't re-define in 1.1.  There must be a workaround?
TIA,
J
-----Original Message-----
From: Matt Bathje [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 2004 10:32 AM
To: Struts Users Mailing List
Subject: Re: Need an alternative to bean:define
Janice -
I do multiple bean:defines (with values, not with name/property
attributes) in some of my jsps, and never have problems, and am
therefore assuming that the name/property attributes are causing the
problem.
Here may be a non-jstl workaround you can try:
<bean:define id="lastClientName">
        <bean:write name="widget" property="clientName" /> <bean:define>

Matt

Janice wrote:
Unfortunately, I need to get all kinds of approval to use JSTL, is
there no Struts tag that will do this?
TIA,
J
-----Original Message-----
From: atta-ur rehman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 2004 5:04 PM
To: Struts Users Mailing List
Subject: Re: Need an alternative to bean:define
Is JSTL an option? I find Struts Logic tag hard to read! If so, I
think this should do:
<c:set var="lastCN" value=""/>
<logic:iterate...>
<c:if test="${widget.clinetName != lastCN}">
 ....
</c:if>
<c:set var="lastCN" value="${widget.clientName}"/> </logic:iterate>
HTH. Of course this is from top of my head, i haven't tried it.
ATTA
On Tue, 02 Nov 2004 16:16:25 -0800, Janice <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

My brain has stopped working.  I need an alternative to bean:define.
What I'm TRYING to do is iterate through a list, displaying a certain
bit of code only when its different than the last iteration
(grouping).
Here's a snip:
      <bean:define id="lastClientName" value="" />
      <logic:iterate id="widget" name="widgets">
      <logic:notEqual name="widget" property="clientName"
value="<%=lastClientName%>">
      <tr>
        <td colspan=all>
          client: <bean:write name="widget" property="clientName" />
        </td>
      </tr>
      <bean:define id="lastClientName" name="widget"
property="clientName" />
      </logic:notEqual>
End of snip.
This won't compile since bean "lastClientName" has already been
defined.  I can't change my version of Struts.
What would be some clean syntax to use instead?
Thanks so much in advance!
J
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