Hi, you should consider comparing strings with the equals() method :
"invalid".equals(#parameters.status) Cordialement, Pierre Lavignotte Ingénieur Conception & Développement http://pierre.lavignotte.googlepages.com On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 8:01 PM, Terry Gardner <terry.gard...@sun.com>wrote: > try <s:if test='%{#parameters.status == "invalid"}'> > > > On Apr 17, 2009, at 1:58 PM, Russell Neufeld wrote: > > Hi all, >> >> I'm still coming up the learning curve on Struts2, and I've come across >> something I can't explain. Hopefully you guys out there can help me >> understand this. I have a request parameter "status" set to "invalid" which >> I'd like to access from within a JSP. If I use the following line: >> >> <s:property value="#parameters.status"/> >> >> I see "invalid" written to the HTML, which is what I expect. However, if >> I try to use that in an expression, like this: >> >> <s:if test='#parameters.status == "invalid"'> >> >> this always evaluates to false. Similarly, this: >> >> <s:property value="#parameters.status == 'invalid'"/> >> >> prints out "false" to the HTML output. However, if I do the following: >> >> <s:set var="foo">bar</s:set> >> <s:property value="#foo == 'bar'"/> >> >> that prints out "true" to the HTML output. Yet this: >> >> <s:set var="status" value="#parameters.status"/> >> <s:property value="#status == 'invalid'"/> >> >> prints out "false" to the HTML output. >> >> Can someone help me understand this behaviour please? Any ideas on how >> to compare a request parameter to a string literal? Thanks, >> >> Russ >> > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@struts.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@struts.apache.org > >
