How to use property attributes on column tags for DisplayTag tables in Freemarker templates?

I am using the following setup and having some trouble in getting the table
rendering to work
with the DisplayTag library.

Tomcat 6.0.20
Freemarker 2.3.25
Stripes 1.5.1
DisplayTag 1.2

Specifically, I am setting up a list of java.net.URI objects in the data
model (accessible as
actionBean.uris from within Freemarker templates).  I am then attempting to
render information
about these URIs using the Displaytag table and column tags.

[@display.table name=actionBean.uris id="table" pagesize=10
requestURI="/browser/search/OtherPage.action"]
           [@display.column title="Scheme" ]
               ${table.scheme}
           [/@]
           [@display.column title="Host" ]
               ${table.host}
           [/@]
           [@display.column title="Path" ]
               ${table.path}
           [/@]
[/@]

When I browse the relevant web page, generated by the Freemarker template,
I get a table showing that there are 40 URIs in the list (as expected) and I
get
the data for all three columns.

Next I try to use the property attribute of the column tag and I run into
trouble.
I have tested the following alternatives for the scheme column but no luck.


           [@display.column property=scheme title="Scheme" ]
           [@display.column property="scheme" title="Scheme" ]

These two result in nothing being shown in the first column but everything
else rendering fine.

           [@display.column property=table.scheme title="Scheme" ]
           [@display.column property="table.scheme" title="Scheme" ]

These two result in the following stack trace:

java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/commons/beanutils/NestedNullException
	org.displaytag.model.Column.getValue(Column.java:124)
	org.displaytag.model.Column.createChoppedAndLinkedValue(Column.java:201)
	org.displaytag.model.Column.initialize(Column.java:178)
	org.displaytag.render.TableWriterTemplate.writeTableBody(TableWriterTemplate.java:313)
	org.displaytag.render.TableWriterTemplate.writeTable(TableWriterTemplate.java:138)
	org.displaytag.render.HtmlTableWriter.writeTable(HtmlTableWriter.java:734)
	org.displaytag.tags.TableTag.writeHTMLData(TableTag.java:1647)
	org.displaytag.tags.TableTag.doEndTag(TableTag.java:1300)
	freemarker.ext.jsp.TagTransformModel$TagWriter.endEvaluation(TagTransformModel.java:431)
	freemarker.ext.jsp.TagTransformModel$TagWriter.afterBody(TagTransformModel.java:407)


There seem to be a number of similar questions raised on this mailing list,
but
none have suggested a syntax that works.

Thanks in advance for your assistance,

Geoff Shuetrim

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