In JSF it's up to the property resolver to choose a strategy. The default one, AFAIK, first check if it is a List or a Map.. only if this condition isn't satisfied it tries to get the bean property.
You could write a PropertyResolver decorator to handle things as you need, for example checking the existence of a property even for the Collections, before accessing its elements. Cosma 2006/7/24, David Delbecq <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Hello, according to expression language in JSP 2.0 specification (which jsf-el uses) the value of exprA.exprB is the same as exprA[exprB] and is evaluated like that: ..... if exprA is a List, coerce exprB to an int, if coercion failed, error. I am in a situation where i have a Collection of items (List) which also has some proerties (like a name). However, if i do "theBean.name" expression language tries to convert name to an int which fail and throws error, but what i want is in expression to reach "public String getName();" in the bean. Does someone have a suggestion of expression to reach this property in my collection? Thanks.
