JSTL and beans inherited from ArrayList

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pluck - 28 Jun 2006 18:42 GMT

I would like access properties as well as elements of a bean inherited
from ArrayList.
Can JSTL do that? Apparently, JSTL is interpreting the property name as
an index into the arraylist.

class JeffreyBean extends ArrayList {
public String getName() {
return "Jeffrey";
}
}

<jsp:useBean scope="session" id="bean" class="JeffreyBean"/>

<c:out value="${bean.name}"/>

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Chris Riesbeck - 28 Jun 2006 19:11 GMT

> I would like access properties as well as elements of a bean inherited
> from ArrayList.
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>
> <c:out value="${bean.name}"/>

As I read the rules for . and [] in Appendix A.3.4 of the JSTL
specification, it looks like you can't do this. As soon as JSTL sees
that bean is a List, it uses rules for indices, not properties.

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