Custom tag using viewobject

Hi all
Im developing a JSP 1.2 tag lib for our production enviroment to save us alot of repetitive code, therefore i decided to make a table component that can do sorting on header and would like to write the sorting code directly in the doStartTag on the library but my issues is the following:
I send ${bindings.testData1.rangeSet} as an attribute on the table tag, this translates into a "oracle.jbo.uicli.binding.JUCtrlRangeBinding$1" (note the $1 at the end) in the actual code, my issue is that i need it to be "oracle.jbo.uicli.binding.JUCtrlRangeBinding" in order to typecast it. But unfortunatly i cant typecast it since the $1 is most likely the local implements and not the actual class...
I might be approaching the issues incorrectly and should try and get something out of the pagecontext as well, but since i allready have the variable it seems to be the easiest to just get the actual collection and sort it instead of having to go through the applicationmodule etc.
All ideas are very welcome, hope the question makes sense :)
Edited by: Jesper Lind on 16-Feb-2009 05:11

Hi Frank
Well the thing is that the rangeset is a colletion so can get the iterator from that, but the thing is i would like to get the view object it belongs to so i can do sorting, but by the looks of it i have to do some java reflection to get the enclosingclass out or something similar.
in the jsp it looks like the following:
<sometag:table items="${bindings.testData1.rangeSet}"...
Then in the java class "items" is read as a collection and then the iterator from the collection is used to create a loop.
What i would like to do is something like e.g pseudo code.
JUCtrlRangeBinding b = (JUCtrlRangeBinding)collection.getEnclosingClass();
b.getViewObject().setSortBy("some column");

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