boolean or Boolean
so ive been a little confused over this for a little while. Ive got a jsp site set up, the "customer" logs in, and thier info is pulled from a database. this "customer" could be set up for automatic payments and there is a field in the db that stores this. an action called "Customer" pulls the info from the db and the jsp accesses this action.
the reason i was so confused was because when i use ${!Customer.directDebitPaySetUp} it displays true, no matter what.
if i insert ${Customer.directDebitPaySetUp} it doesn't display anything, and is actually null. but if i access the variable directly through something like com.arvig.www.ebpp.Customer.directDebitPaySetUp then it will display the actual value that I'm looking for, the problem is if I access it directly like that i cant put it into an c:if statement because it comes through as a Boolean (java.lang.Boolean object) value instead of a primitive boolean which is what the c:if is expecting.
any help would be great!
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Rob17
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Rob17a] at [2007-11-27 8:01:21]
I suppose you could write a custom tag to convert a Boolean into boolean, and then use the result in the <c:if>... I've never fallen afowl of this one... but I've allways stored booleans in the DB as char 'Y' or 'N'.
Thanks for the heads up though.. and sorry I can't actually answer the question... it's quit a good one.
Keith.
i tried that previously as well, this was the result
<c:if test="${booleanValue(com.arvig.www.ebpp.Customer.directDebitPaySetUp)}">
Error:
'booleanValue' is an unknown function.
Message was edited by:
Rob17
Rob17a at 2007-7-12 19:43:26 >
> i tried that previously as well, this was the result
>
> <c:if
> test="${booleanValue(com.arvig.www.ebpp.Customer.direc
> tDebitPaySetUp)}">
>
>
> Error:
>
> /ebpp/splash.jsp:50: cannot resolve symbol
> symbol : method booleanValue (java.lang.Boolean)
> location: class _jsp._ebpp._splash__jsp
> out.print((
> booleanValue(com.arvig.www.ebpp.Customer.directDebitPa
> ySetUp) ));
Ok, I'm really not trying to be mean, but you should really go back and learn the basics of java. If you can't call a method on an object, you're getting ahead of yourself.
<c:if test="${com.arvig.www.ebpp.Customer.directDebitPaySetUp.booleanValue()}">
> sorry to inconvenience you, i thought this was the
> New To Java forum. i must have been mistaken.
It's ok, I'm not saying I won't help you, it's just that you'd do yourself a favor by learning the basics first. If you focused your energy in getting a foundation in java these problems would be easy to fix yourself. I'm trying to give you helpful advice.
thanks, i understand, i shouldn't have made a sarcastic remark. its been a long day of staring at code, my mind is a bit fried at the moment. sorry, and thanks for all the advice everyone!
Rob17a at 2007-7-12 19:43:26 >
