Question

This seems like it should work, but I just can’t seem to figure out why, hoping a fresh set of eyes can spot what must be something very obvious…

I pass an object from my controller to my jsp file, but trying to parse the object with EL just will not work, it works as a scriptlet though, its driving me crazy 🙂

Using Spring 3.0 MVC

Model:

public class Table {

private String mId;
private ArrayList<Row> mRows;

public String getId() {
    return mId;
}

Controller:

Table table = new Table();
table.setId("test");

ModelAndView mav = new ModelAndView();
mav.addObject("table",table);
mav.setViewName("report");

return mav;

JSP File:

<!--  this works -->

<%
Table table = (Table)request.getAttribute("table");
System.out.println(table.getId());
%>

<!--  this does not work -->

${table.getId}

Error:

org.apache.jasper.JasperException: An exception occurred processing JSP page /WEB-INF/jsp/report.jsp at line 33

30: 
31:     <!--  this dows not work -->
32: 
33:     ${table.getId}
34: 
35: </body>
36: </html>

javax.el.PropertyNotFoundException: Property 'getId' not found on type com.platform.server.portal.model.Table

Answer 1

change private String mId; to private String id;
and
${table.getId} to ${table.id}

you do not need to and can not use accessor method like that.

if it must be mId then change

public String getId()to public String getMid()

and

${table.getId} to ${table.mId}