Re: issue accessing Date object from within a scriptlet embedded in JSP

From:

Lew <noone@lewscanon.com>

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comp.lang.java.programmer

Date:

Tue, 23 Sep 2008 09:30:16 -0400

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Damon Getsman wrote:

True to bad style, I'm writing a piece of JSP right now where there's
a bit of actual code scriptlet embedded with <% ... %> tags now.

In the jsp above that scriptlet I'm working with 2 objects of
java.util.Date, called inDate and outDate. When I'm trying to access
the different objects er values or whatever within them, I'm using
standard inDate.minutes and etc. to attempt to do tests on them. Is
there something special that I need to know about accessing this kind
of object from within an embedded scriptlet? I'm getting a server log
error of
An error occurred at line: 169 in the jsp file: /reports.jsp
inDate.hours cannot be resolved or is not a field

<%
int totalMinutes = 0, units = 0;
if (inDate.hours != outDate.hours)

(Do not use TABs to indent Usenet posts.)

You are referring to 'inDate.hours' in Java scriptlet.
<http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/util/Date.html>
shows that 'java.util.Date' has no such public field. In fact,
'java.util.Date' has no public fields at all. Only methods.

--
Lew