Repeater fails using {container.item} context within included JSP pages

Question

Greetings,
I'm using Bea Workshop 8.1.2 and netui's based framework.
I'm experiencing a problem relating to the use of jsp:insert tags as a way of templating the code as to make it more maintainable and cost effective.
The problem arises when using repeaters and then binding a <netui> tag with a "container.item" context inside the included jsp page.
Example:
On a PageController we define on its scope a rather simple data structure:
public String[] array={"Item1","Item2","Item3"}
The associated index is as follows:
index.jsp
<netui:html>
<netui-data:repeater dataSource="{pageFlow.array}">
<netui-data:repeaterHeader></netui-data:repeaterHeader>
<netui-data:repeaterItem>
<netui:label value="{container.item}"/><br>
</netui-data:repeaterItem>
<netui-data:repeaterFooter></netui-data:repeaterFooter>
</netui-data:repeater>
</netui:html>
This works as expected, it prints the data in the array list. Fine.
Now, with the <jsp:insert> tag usage, we get two files index.jsp and body.jsp:
index.html
<netui:html>
<netui-data:repeater dataSource="{pageFlow.array}">
<netui-data:repeaterHeader></netui-data:repeaterHeader>
<netui-data:repeaterItem>
<jsp:include page="body.jsp" flush="true"/>
</netui-data:repeaterItem>
<netui-data:repeaterFooter></netui-data:repeaterFooter>
</netui-data:repeater>
</netui:html>
body.jsp
<netui:html>
<netui:label value="{container.item}"/>
<netui:label value="{pageFlow.array[0]}"/>
</netui:html>
With this example the {container.item} tag fails with this exception:
"Caught exception when evaluating expression "{container.item}" with available binding contexts [actionForm, pageFlow, globalApp, request, session, appication, pageContext, bundle, container, url, pageInput]. Root cause: com.bea.wlw.netui.script.xscript.IllegalContextStateException: The Tag "com.bea.wlw.netui.tags.html.Label@cb5dce" does not have a valid parent of type DataAccessProvider. The expression "container["item"]" requires a parent of this type."
BUT - and here is my problem with this - the label tag with {pageFlow.array[0]} PRINTS THE DESIRED ELEMENT.
Also, on an extended example with a <form> tag around the main index html and the array structure inside a FormData class, {actionForm.array[0]} ALSO PRINTS THE DESIRED ELEMENT.
Only {container.item} gloriously fails with an exception complaining about IllegalContextStateException.
This is a total nonorthogonal behaviour, the features do not work as expected and indeed, with the importance of repeaters for netui's development, this preclude us from the minimum standard for structured web application design.
Does anyone have any clue about this behaviour? If not a fix, at least an explanation...
Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

I am trying to insert multiple rows I when submited I am get ting only 1 row in the DatabaseForm.
my netui.log file shows this error:
29 Oct 2004 17:25:48,941 WARN NetUIReadVariableResolver []: Could not create a ContextFactory for type "com.bea.netuix.servlets.script.PortalVariableResolver$PortalContextFactory" because the ContextFactory implementation class could not be found.
29 Oct 2004 17:26:35,288 ERROR SortFilterColumn []: Unable to load /com/bea/wlw/netui/databinding/grid/filter/filter-window.properties. Using com.bea.wlw.netui.tags.databinding.grid.util.grid
Throwable: java.util.MissingResourceException: Can't find bundle for base name /com/bea/wlw/netui/databinding/grid/filter/filter-window.properties, locale en_US
Stack Trace:
java.util.MissingResourceException: Can't find bundle for base name /com/bea/wlw/netui/databinding/grid/filter/filter-window.properties, locale en_US
at java.util.ResourceBundle.throwMissingResourceException(ResourceBundle.java:804)
at java.util.ResourceBundle.getBundleImpl(ResourceBundle.java:773)
at java.util.ResourceBundle.getBundle(ResourceBundle.java:511)
at com.bea.wlw.netui.tags.databinding.grid.column.SortFilterColumn.<clinit>(SortFilterColumn.java:143)
at jsp_servlet._activitychange.__grid._jspService(grid.jsp:21)
at weblogic.servlet.jsp.JspBase.service(JspBase.java:33)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletStubImpl$ServletInvocationAction.run(ServletStubImpl.java:996)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletStubImpl.invokeServlet(ServletStubImpl.java:419) at weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletStubImpl.invokeServlet(ServletStubImpl.java:463) at weblogic.servlet.internal.TailFilter.doFilter(TailFilter.java:28)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.FilterChainImpl.doFilter(FilterChainImpl.java:27)
at com.bea.wlw.netui.pageflow.PageFlowJspFilter.doFilter(PageFlowJspFilter.java:208) at weblogic.servlet.internal.FilterChainImpl.doFilter(FilterChainImpl.java:27)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.RequestDispatcherImpl.forward(RequestDispatcherImpl.java:316)
at com.bea.wlw.netui.pageflow.PageFlowRequestProcessor.superForward(PageFlowRequestProcessor.java:1301)
at com.bea.wlw.netui.pageflow.PageFlowRequestProcessor$DefaultHttpRedirector.forward(PageFlowRequestProcessor.java:1317)
at com.bea.wlw.netui.pageflow.PageFlowRequestProcessor.doForward(PageFlowRequestProcessor.java:1199)
at com.bea.wlw.netui.pageflow.PageFlowRequestProcessor.processForwardConfig(PageFlowRequestProcessor.java:1093)
at org.apache.struts.action.RequestProcessor.process(RequestProcessor.java:279)
at com.bea.wlw.netui.pageflow.PageFlowRequestProcessor.process(PageFlowRequestProcessor.java:650)
at com.bea.wlw.netui.pageflow.AutoRegisterActionServlet.process(AutoRegisterActionServlet.java:527)
at com.bea.wlw.netui.pageflow.PageFlowActionServlet.process(PageFlowActionServlet.java:152)
at org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet.doGet(ActionServlet.java:507)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:740)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:853)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletStubImpl$ServletInvocationAction.run(ServletStubImpl.java:996)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletStubImpl.invokeServlet(ServletStubImpl.java:419) at weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletStubImpl.invokeServlet(ServletStubImpl.java:315) at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppServletContext$ServletInvocationAction.run(WebAppServletContext.java:6456)
at weblogic.security.acl.internal.AuthenticatedSubject.doAs(AuthenticatedSubject.java:321)
at weblogic.security.service.SecurityManager.runAs(SecurityManager.java:118)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppServletContext.invokeServlet(WebAppServletContext.java:3661)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletRequestImpl.execute(ServletRequestImpl.java:2630)
at weblogic.kernel.ExecuteThread.execute(ExecuteThread.java:219)
at weblogic.kernel.ExecuteThread.run(ExecuteThread.java:178)
29 Oct 2004 17:27:31,164 WARN FlowController []: Could not find exception handler method exceptionHandler for java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException.
29 Oct 2004 17:27:31,165 WARN FlowController []: Could not find exception handler method exceptionHandler for java.lang.IndexOutOfBoundsException.
29 Oct 2004 17:27:31,165 WARN FlowController []: Could not find exception handler method exceptionHandler for java.lang.RuntimeException.
The actionForm uses a FormData which has a Array of all the fields that need to be populated.
Any idea why only 1 row shows up ?.
Thanks
Raghav