Re: jndi-taglib and scripting variables

On 7/26/07, Iikku Mattila <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have a portal with a jsp channel in which I use the jndi-taglib. I'm
> trying to do a ldap-search with the portal user's userid. I get the id
> from elsewhere and both
>
> <jx:expr value="$userid" />   and
> <%=userid%>
>
> print it out just nice. However, when I try
>
> <jndi:search id="searchResult" contextRef="ldapContext"
> filter="uid=<%=userid%>" searchScope="subtree" >
> </jndi:search>
>
> or filter="uid=<jx:expr value="$userid" />" things don't work the way they
> should. With <jx:expr> it says
>
> com.sun.portal.providers.jsp.jasper3.jasper.compiler.ParseException:
> /etc/opt/SUNWps/desktop/*/*/content.jsp(31,91) Attribute
> $userid has no value
>
> and with <%=userid%> I just get an empty searchResult. It surely must be
> possible to give the id as a parameter to the filter somehow? Any ideas?

Try: filter='<%= "uid=" + userid %>'

In other words, the scriptlet expression must appear by itself.

> Iikku

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