H:dataTable Problem

Question

Hi,
I have a SearchBean class which is a managed bean. It has a SearchResults Class. The SearchResults class has a few integers, and a ArrayList of SearchData.
This works
<h:outputText value="#{jci_SearchBean.searchResults.searchDataList[0].title}" />Which shows that there is a valid arraylist, and the title is being printed.
But this doesn't
<h:dataTable value="#{jci_SearchBean.searchResults.searchDataList}" var="searchDataBean">
</h:dataTable>As soon as I add the second piece of code, I get a huge error, about some NullPointerException being thrown.
The getSearchDataList() method of SearchResults is not even being called by the data table. Whereas it is being called by output text.
Please help as I have tried everything, and now I am getting frustrated. Am I missing something obvious here?
Thanks
PS: I am using WebSphere Portal 6.0

Answer 1

Ok. Now I have replaced that code with this and it works. But this is IBM specific if I am not mistaken.
<hx:scriptCollector id="scriptCollector1">
          <hx:dataTableEx border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"
               id="tableEx1" value="#{jci_SearchBean.searchResults.searchDataList}" var="varsearchDataList">
               <hx:columnEx id="columnEx1">
                     <h:outputText style="font-weight:bold;" value="#{varsearchDataList.title}" />
               </hx:columnEx>
               <hx:columnEx id="columnEx2">
                    <h:outputText value=" - " />
               </hx:columnEx>
               <hx:columnEx id="columnEx3">
                    <h:outputText value="#{varsearchDataList.description}" />
               </hx:columnEx>
          </hx:dataTableEx>
     </hx:scriptCollector>Should I just stick to hx instead of h???
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Greesh