Personalization Server: Reference session variable in cm:select

Question

<%=String X=(String)session.getAttribute(y)%>
How do we get X into a cm:select tag?
I attempting to do a query and want to pass X into it.
Tried doing <%=X%> and it's causing a JSP compile error.
So, I guess I need to know how to pass a session variable into the query of a CM:SELECT
tag?
Thanks,
Mark

Answer 1

Hello Mark,
A coworker of mine created a sample that I tested with an in-lined String variable for
the "query" attribute. It works fine. I suspect that you may have other problems. For
instance, I don't think <%= String X=(String)session.getAttribute(y)%> is legal. The <%=
%> is supposed to contain a java expression, like <%= (String) session.getAttribute(y) %>
Also, double-quotes within an expression can be problematic, such as <%= (String)
session.getAttribute("y") %>. The best way to handle this would be to assign the session
attribute to a String and then inline the String with: <%= myValue %>.
Here is a working sample (that does not use a session variable, but that does not matter
- it uses a String:
<!-- Import the content management tag -->
<%@ taglib uri="cm.tld" prefix="cm" %>
<%@ taglib uri="es.tld" prefix="es" %>
<%@ page import="com.beasys.commerce.content.ContentHelper" %>
<!-- Use the cm:select tag to query the example content files in
<drive>:\weblogiccommerce3.2\dmsBase for type = news, (see headline1.htm,
headline2.htm, headline3.htm, headline4.htm, business1.htm, sports1.htm,
and showbiz1.htm) and display headings -->
<br>
<%
String newsQuery = "type = 'news'";
%>
<cm:select contentHome="<%=ContentHelper.DEF_CONTENT_MANAGER_HOME%>"
query="<%= newsQuery %>"
sortBy="heading ASC"
id="newsline" cacheId="news_lines"
cacheTimeout="300000" useCache="true" />
<es:forEachInArray array="<%=newsline%>"
id="newsBL" type="com.beasys.commerce.axiom.content.Content"
counterId="i">
<br>
<% out.println((i.intValue()+1) + ") "); %>
<cm:printProperty id="newsBL" name="heading" encode="html" default="Error" />
</es:forEachInArray>
Mark Mangano wrote:
<%=String X=(String)session.getAttribute(y)%>
How do we get X into a cm:select tag?
I attempting to do a query and want to pass X into it.
Tried doing <%=X%> and it's causing a JSP compile error.
So, I guess I need to know how to pass a session variable into the query of a CM:SELECT
tag?
Thanks,
Mark--
Ture Hoefner
BEA Systems, Inc.
2590 Pearl St.
Suite 110
Boulder, CO 80302
www.bea.com
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