Sorry to be a pest, but no replies in 2 days.  Any
tomcat developers willing to help me?  Should I just
post this as a bug?  Any advice is appreciated.

thanks.

dave

--- David Diehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I have a custom tag with attributes defined in the
> TLD
> file as allowing run-time expression values,
> meaning:
> 
> <rtexprvalue>true</rtexprvalue>
> 
> 
> I also have a TagExtraInfo class that I am using to
> validate the values provided.
> 
> Inside my TagExtraInfo sub-class I have code such as
> this:
> 
>    Object attr = data.getAttribute("groupSize");
> 
>    if ( attr != null &&
>         !attr.equals(TagData.REQUEST_TIME_VALUE)
>    {
> 
> and so on.   When, in my JSP, I provide attribute
> values such as "<%= 10 * 14 %>" (JSP scriplet) I do
> indeed get the TagData.REQUEST_TIME_VALUE object
> back
> on this call.
> 
> However, when I instead have an EL value, something
> like "${groupSizeValue}", I do not received the
> REQUEST_TIME_VALUE distinguished object back.  I
> receive a String object, containing the text
> "${groupSizeValue}".  Is this the correct behavior? 
> Everything I have read (books, Google searches,
> etc.)
> seems to point me in the thinking that this is a
> bug.
> 
> 
> From looking at the tomcat 5.5.20 and 5.5.23 source
> code, I see where the JspAttribute (nested class of
> Node) is created.  In the Validator class, line
> 1117,
> is the creation for this object passing the constant
> "false" for the "expr" argument (5th argument to the
> 1st ctor of this class).  I believe it is line 1117
> that would be getting executed since the if
> statement
> preceding this is:
> 
>   if (el.containsEL() && !pageInfo.isELIgnored()) {
> 
> 
> So, my question is, why would an EL expression when
> EL
> is not being ignored be considered not an
> expression?
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> dave
> 
> 
>  
>
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