How do I set this variable in JSTL?

[Dave Alvarado]

Hi,

I have three page attributes (hotels, motels, rvParks) that are all lists of the same object. Based on a JSTL loop variable, I want to set a generic attribute to represent one of these three. However, this code

<c:forEach var="i" begin="1" end="3">
<c:set var="accommodations">
<c:choose>
<c:when test="${i == 1}">${hotels}</c:when>
<c:when test="${i == 2}">${motels}</c:when>
<c:when test="${i == 3}">${rvParks}</c:when>
</c:choose>
</c:set>

turns the variable accommodations into something of type string instead of the java.util.List of objects that I want. How do I adjust the above so that the variable "accommodations" gets set to the same type as the attribute I'm referring to?

Thanks, - Dave

[Bear Bibeault]

Because the code is saying: "take the rendered body of the <c:set> tag and make it the value of the variable."

Rendered body will always be text.

Why aren't you handling this in the controller instead of doing hand-stands in the JSP?

[Dave Alvarado]

Do you know how to rewrite the c:set clause to set the attribute correctly instead of the string that is getting rendered? -