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Options Tag not Recognizing Collection

 
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Background:

I have a standard JSP page where I pass in a basic transfer object (charistic) that contains a property (charelements) that is an ArrayList of Charelement objects. Each Charelement object contains an element String and and ID which is of type integer.
So in my jsp page I can iterate through the collection with the standard forEach tag without any issue.

c:forEach var="element" items="${charistic.charelements}"

Issue:

However, when I try and build an options tag in the following manner, I get an error (I left out the < and > brackets).

html:select property="${charistic.charisticbeanname}" value="${charistic.invvalue}"

html:options collection="${charistic.charelements}" property="elementID" labelProperty="element"

/html:select


Here is the error:

Cannot find bean under name [com.product.to.CharelementTO@c2060e

I'm not sure why the forEach tag will recognize my collection definition and yet the options tag does not?
 
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Issues with Struts tags should be raised in the Struts forum. I have moved this post there for you.
 
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Let me re-phrase my question a little:

Let's say I am passing to my JSP page one transfer object A which contains a property (called bs) that consists of an ArrayList of transfer objects B. Each of the B transfer objects contain a property (called cs) that consists of an ArrayList of transfer objects C.

So in my JSP page I start iterating through the B transfer objects with the following forEach statement:

forEach items="${A.bs}" var="bs"

Now I'm iterating through the ArrayList of B objects by referencing them by the bs parameter. Within this iteration, I want to iterate through the ArrayList of C objects that are tied to each of the B objects. In the past, I've used a second forEach iteration to iterate through the ArrayList of C objects like this:

forEach items="${bs.cs}" var="cs"

And now I'm able to access/iterate through the ArrayList of C objects that are imbedded within the ArrayList of B objects that is ultimately imbedded in the one A object. I use this second forEach to create a options list HTML element.

What I don't understand is why I can't replace the second forEach with the following code:

select property="${bs.somebeanproperty}"
html ptions collection="${bs.bs}" property="elementID" labelProperty="element"

..where the elementID and element properties have the appropriate setter/getter methods in the C object.

This is the error that I get when I try to use the above code:

Cannot find bean under name [com.product.to.CharelementTO@1747e0f, com.product.to.CharelementTO@100200c]

Where CharelementTO is equivalent to the C object noted above.

So why would the forEach be able to recognize the C ArrayList and not the html ptions (when I use it with the collections property) not recognize it.

Any ideas?
 
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