Re: Why is Java lying?

From:
Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Tue, 28 Nov 2006 17:59:14 +0100
Message-ID:
<4t386uF125pj2U1@mid.individual.net>
On 28.11.2006 17:50, laredotornado@zipmail.com wrote:

Hi,

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

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

    org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.handleJspException(JspServletWrapper.java:512)
    org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:377)
    org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:314)
    org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:264)
    javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:802)

First off, the line number is incorrect (line 2 is "<%") but more
importantly, I thought String extended Object.


Yes, but you are casting the other way - and in some places you do not
even have the cast (String v2 = session.getValue(attr);).

    robert

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