Re: Trouble calling methods in a Struts 2 action

Friday, November 6, 2009, 6:32:05 PM, Christopher Maloof wrote:

> I'm just starting to use FreeMarker (2.3.15) with Struts 2.1.8.  It 
> mostly works great: my templates are retrieving bean information with no
> problem.  However, I can't figure out how to call methods defined in my
> action classes -- in fact I have no idea why it isn't working as I expected.
>
> If my action class looks like this:
>
> public class MyAction extends MyActionSupport {
>     public String getMyValue() {
>        return "hello";
>     }
>     public String myMethod() {
>        return "world";
>     }
> }
>
> then ${myValue} or ${myValue.toUpperCase()} works fine, as does 
> <@s.property value="myMethod()"/>, but ${myMethod()}results in a 
> "Expression myMethod is undefined" error.  The docs 
> (http://freemarker.org/docs/dgui_template_exp.html#dgui_template_exp_methodcall)
> seem to think this should be perfectly fine, as far as I can tell.
>
> Any idea why Freemarker isn't seeing the top-level action methods unless
> I use <@s.property>?

What's the data-model in Struts? It had to be the MyAction instance,
or else the methods will no be visible.

> Thanks for any help -
> Chris
>
>
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Best regards,
 Daniel Dekany


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