Evaluating custom tag file
I have an attribute called Template with the following info:
<html>
<tr>
<td><tags:searchResults/></td>
</tr>
</html>
In my results.jsp I have the following:
<%@ taglib uri="/WEB-INF/struts-html.tld" prefix="html" %>
<%@ taglib uri="/WEB-INF/struts-bean.tld" prefix="bean" %>
<%@ taglib uri="/WEB-INF/fn.tld" prefix="fn" %>
<%@ taglib uri="/WEB-INF/c.tld" prefix="c" %>
<%@ taglib tagdir="/WEB-INF/tags" prefix="tags" %>
${Template}
When ${Template} gets evaluated it rendeers the html tags properly but never evaluates the <tags:/searchResults/> which is a tag file that just says "search results"
I'm using Tomcat 5.0.19
Any help would be appreciated.
Sorry, but you can't do that. A JSP must be aware of a custom tag at translate time, so you can't embed tag calls in an attribute or JSTL variable or in output from another tag.
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HTTP Status 500 -
type Exception report
message
description The server encountered an internal error () that prevented it from fulfilling this request.
exception
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PUBLIC "-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD JSP Tag Library 1.2//EN"
"http://java.sun.com/dtd/web-jsptaglibrary_1_2.dtd">
<taglib>
<tlib-version>1.0</tlib-version>
<jsp-version>1.2</jsp-version>
<short-name></short-name>
<description>
</description>
<tag>
<name>foreach</name>
<tag-class>mytag.foreach</tag-class>
<body-content>JSP</body-content>
<description>
</description>
<attribute>
<name>group</name>
<required>true</required>
<rtexprvalue>true</rtexprvalue>
</attribute>
</tag>
</taglib>Never mind. I've found the cause of my problem. I shoud hava started the iterator in the doStartTag() metod instead of in the doAfterBody().
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Problem deploying and using custom Tags in jar files
I am trying to create a custom tag library of Java classes, package them in a JAR file, and use them in another web application. Here is the JAR file structure, named mytags.jar:
META-INF
META-INF/manifest.mf
META-INF/taglib.tld
mytags/FooBar.class
mytags/Another.class
...Here is the taglib.tld file:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" ?>
<taglib xmlns="http://java.sun.com/ns/j2ee"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee web-jsptaglibrary_2_0.xsd"
version="2.0">
<tlib-version>1.0</tlib-version>
<short-name>foo</short-name>
<uri>fooTags</uri>
<info>My tags</info>
<tag>
<name>fooBar</name>
<tag-class>mytags.FooBar</tag-class>
<body-content>empty</body-content>
<attribute>
<name>name</name>
<required>false</required>
<rtexprvalue>true</rtexprvalue>
</attribute>
</tag>
</taglib>The FooBar class has getName(String) and setName() methods.
In the web application, I have copied mytags.jar into the WEB-INF/lib directory. I've verified that it lands in the corresponding directory for my appserver (I'm using Tomcat 6.0.10).
Here's the header for my JSP:
<%@ page language="java" contentType="text/html;charset=UTF-8" %>
<%@ taglib prefix="c" uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core" %>
<%@ taglib uri="fooTags" prefix="foo" %>
<foo:fooBar name="dummy" />
...When I access my page, the browser sits there and spins, not able to do anything. I know that some of the content is executed, but it is not able to get to the fooTags. I have tried replacing fooTags with WEB-INF/lib/mytags.jar, to no effect.
According to the docs, I should not need to include anything in web.xml to reference the fooTags. The tag library classes are valid, since I used them as local tags prior to moving them into a Jar library.
Any help would be appreciatedTake the code of the jsp file :
<%@ page language="java" %>
<%@ taglib uri="WEB-INF/struts-html.tld" prefix="html" %>
<html>
<head>
<title> First Struts Application </title>
</head>
<body>
<table width="500" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
<tr>
<td> </td>
</tr>
<tr bgcolor="#36566E">
<td height="68" width="48%">
<div align="left">
<img src="images/hht.gif" width="220" height="74">
</div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> </td>
</tr>
</table>
<html:form action="Lookup"
name="lookupForm"
type="wiley.LookupForm" >
<table width="45%" border="0">
<tr>
<td>Symbol:</td>
<td><html:text property="symbol" /> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2" align="center"><html:submit/> </td>
</tr>
</table>
</html:form>
</body>
</html>
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