Hello there,
Is it at all possible for a custom tag to generate
JSP code and have it evaluated by the JSP page?
I tried to do the following as a
test:
I wrote a class that extends TagSupport and outputs a very simple jsp expression like
as a
String. Then I wrote another class that extends BodyTagSupport, set its <body-content> to accept JSP, and made it simply print the results of its body evaluation.
The code that does the work is as follows:
BodyContent bodyContent = getBodyContent();
JspWriter out = bodyContent.getEnclosingWriter();
String bodyString = bodyContent.getString();
if(bodyString!=null) out.print(bodyString);
Then I placed the first tag between the starting and ending tags of the second one and ran my page. The result was a bit frustrating, it was just "<%=new java.util.Date() %>", that is, the JSP expression did not get evaluated but it was just printed as is...
Anything that I did wrong?
