Re: looping on a list of lists (or accessing custom attributes of a list)

On 6/3/06, Luca Passani <[email protected]> wrote:
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> Hi guys, here is my big problem today.
>
> I have a list the items of two kinds (with and without icons) which gets
> turned into a list of lists.
>
> [x , x, y, x,y, y, y, y,x, x,y] becomes  [[x,x],[y],[x],[y,y,y,y],[x],[y]]
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> When I render the list of lists in my JSP, I need to understand which
> kind of list it is I am dealing with.
> That's when I had a brilliant idea.


Hmm... ;-)

Two suggestions:

1) Instead of extending ArrayList, just encapsulate it. In other words, add
a property to LinkWithIconList for the list, so that you can access the list
explicitly using ${sub_list.list} or something. This seems like the simplest
approach.

2) The Unstandard taglib in the Taglibs sandbox has an 'instanceOf' tag that
might be useful to you.

--
Martin Cooper


I defined to subclasses of ArrayList:
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> public class LinkWithIconList extends ArrayList {
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>     public boolean isLinkWithIconList() {
>     return true;
>     }
>     public boolean isLinkWithoutIconList() {
>     return false;
>     }
> }
>
> (you can probably guess what the other class looks like :). And each
> sublist is an object of the respective subclasses.
> The rationale was to be able to do something like:
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> <c:forEach var="sub_list" items="${list_of_lists}">
>   <c:choose>
>      <c:when test="${sub_list.linkWithIconList}">
>     render list with icons
>     </c:when>
>      <c:when test="${sub_list.linkWithoutIconList}">
>     render list without icons
>     </c:when>
>   </c:choose>
> </c:forEach>
>
> Unfortunately this doesn't work. ${sub_list.linkWithIconList} is
> interpreted as an attempt to access to an item of the collection (and
> not one of its properties):
>
> javax.servlet.ServletException: The "." operator was supplied with
> an index value of type "java.lang.String" to be
> applied to a List or array, but that value cannot be converted to an
> integer.
>
> So,  the question for this respactable forum is:
> - is there an easy way to achieve what I am trying to achieve?
> - are there other ways to achieve my goals?
>
> Thanks
>
> Luca
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