Re: Why is Java lying?

From:
Lew <lew@nowhere.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Sat, 02 Dec 2006 02:23:34 -0500
Message-ID:
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laredotornado@zipmail.com wrote:

I'm trying to compile a very simple JSP page on Tomcat 5.5, JDK 1.5

<%@ page import="java.util.*" %>
<%
   Object v = new String("b");
   session.setAttribute("a", v);

   Enumeration e = session.getAttributeNames();
   while (e.hasMoreElements()) {
       String attr = (String) e.nextElement();
       String v1 = session.getAttribute(attr);
       String v2 = session.getValue(attr);
       out.println("attr: " + attr + " v1:" + v1 + " v2:" + v2);
   } // while
%>

but I'm getting this compile error:

An error occurred at line: 2 in the jsp file: /session_vars.jsp
Generated servlet error:
Type mismatch: cannot convert from Object to String

First off, the line number is incorrect (line 2 is "<%")


Thomas Fritsch wrote:

Don't ask me why the compiler says "line: 2", although it actually seems
to be line 10.


Perhaps in a JSP the entire content from <% to %> is considered one line?

NttpSession.getValue() is deprecated.

- Lew

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