problem with converting java.lang.Object to java.lang.String[solved]

[Raghavan Chockalingam]

I am not able to cast Object class to String class. Object class is from session object...I tried with static String.valueOf(Object)...it is supposed to return string but returns int....

    
<%
//get the member id of the member
String memberId = "";
out.println(session.getAttribute("userName"));
String userName = String.valueOf(session.getAttribute("userName")); 
memberId = memberBean.getMemberId(userName);
 
%>
 
error reported is...
[CODE]    
J:\Tomcat 5.5\jakarta-tomcat-5.0.28\work\Catalina\localhost\_\org\apache\jsp\forums\viewMyPosts_jsp.java:97: incompatible types
found   : int
required: java.lang.String
memberId = memberBean.getMemberId(userName);
                                 ^
1 error
 

[/CODE]
[ January 06, 2006: Message edited by: Raghavan Chockalingam ]

[Sameer Damle]

just check the return type of your getMemberId(userName) method........

i think it must be int.... and you are returning that value in a String variable...

[Raghavan Chockalingam]

This is the member function of MemberBean class

    
public int getMemberId(String userName){
int memberId = 0;
String query = "select `Id` from `Members_tbl` where `Email` = '" + userName + "'";
System.out.println("getMemberId() - query: " + query);
try{
ResultSet rs = connection.createStatement().executeQuery(query);
if (rs.next()) {
System.out.println("getMemberId - current row: " + rs.getRow());
memberId = rs.getInt("Id");
}
rs.close();
System.out.println("getMemberId() - Member id for " + userName + " -> " + memberId);
}catch(Exception e){
System.out.println("getMemberId()-->" + e.toString());
}
return memberId;
}

[Ulf Dittmer]

I am not able to cast Object class to String class.

You're not casting an Object to a String, you're trying to use an int where a String is required. Try

memberId = new Integer(memberBean.getMemberId(userName)).toString();

The line

String userName = String.valueOf(session.getAttribute("userName"));

could be written as

String userName = (String) session.getAttribute("userName");

but it should work as it is.

[Raghavan Chockalingam]

Sameer was right, I was trying to store a return int variable in a String variable which I recognized now...
earlier, it was...

    
<%
//get the member id of the member
String memberId = "";//<--- This should be int memberId = 0;
out.println(session.getAttribute("userName"));
String userName = String.valueOf(session.getAttribute("userName")); 
memberId = memberBean.getMemberId(userName); 
%>

Thanks to all of your help guys...