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justacoder
justacoder

Reputation: 2704

Form output using bean

Getting my feet wet with JSP/bean action. I'm getting An exception occurred processing JSP page /foo/output.jsp at line 14 on my output page. The java file compiles ok.

input.jsp 

<p>First Number: <input type="text" name="first" value="" /></p>
<p>Second Number: <input type="text" name="second" value="" /></p>
<p>Action: <select name="compu">
                <option value="1">+</option>
                <option value="2">-</option>
                <option value="3">*</option>
                <option value="4">/</option>
            </select></p>

<input type="submit" />
</form>

output.jsp

<%@ page contentType="text/html; charset=utf-8" language="java" import="java.util.*" errorPage="" %>

<jsp:useBean id="foo" class="stuff.DerInput" scope="page" />
<jsp:setProperty name="foo" property="*" />
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Untitled Document</title>
</head>

<body>
<jsp:getProperty name="foo" property="calculation" />
<p>The result: <%= foo.getCalculation() %></p>

</body>
</html>

DerInput.Java

package stuff;

public class DerInput {
    int first, second, compu, theresult;
    String notation;

    public void setFirst( int value )
    {
        first = value;
    }

    public void setSecond( int value )
    {
        second = value;
    }

    public void setCompu( int value )
    {
        compu = value;
    }

    public String getCalculation() {

        switch (compu) {
            case 1:
                theresult = first + second;
                notation = "+";
                break;
            case 2:
                theresult = first - second;
                notation = "-";
                break;
            case 3:
                theresult = first * second;
                notation = "*";
                break;
            case 4:
                theresult = first / second;
                notation = "/";
                break;
        }

        return first + " " + notation + " " + second + " = " + theresult;
    }
}

Upvotes: 1

Views: 916

Answers (1)

BalusC
BalusC

Reputation: 1109172

Look here,

<jsp:getProperty name="foo" property="calculation" />
<p>The result: <%= foo.getCalculation() %></p>

You're expecting that the page scoped bean ${foo} is available in scriptlet scope <% foo %> as well. This is not true. They do not share the same variable scope. This would only result in a NullPointerException on the getCalculation() call, because <% foo %> is null.

Use EL instead.

<p>The result: ${foo.calculation}</p>

(Note: that <jsp:getProperty> line is superfluous here, so I removed it)

Upvotes: 2

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