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From: "Brian Lee" <brian_a_lee@hotmail.com>
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Subject: RE: Struts Dilemma
Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2003 22:57:33 -0500
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You don't need the getIsActive method in your bean. If you have isActive, 
you can use the line:
<logic:equal name="myBean" property="active" value="true">

According to the bean spec any boolean attributes should use "isFoo" instead 
of "getFoo".

BAL

>From: "Khalid K." <groups@maikada.com>
>Reply-To: "Struts Users Mailing List" <struts-user@jakarta.apache.org>
>To: "'Struts Users Mailing List'" <struts-user@jakarta.apache.org>
>Subject: RE: Struts Dilemma
>Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2003 19:48:53 -0800
>
>I do the following:
>
>// in the bean
>Public boolean isActive() {
>	if (blah)
>		return true;
>	return false;
>}
>// if I know that this method will be used in jsp, I also write the
>following:
>Public boolean getIsActive() {
>	if (isActive())
>	   return true;
>	return false;
>}
>
>// in jsp
><logic:equal name="myBean" property="isActive" value="true">
>   printout whatever...
></logic:equal>
>
>It works...
>
>Khalid
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Srinivas Gunturu [mailto:sxg1127@bjc.org]
>Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2003 9:30 AM
>Subject: Struts Dilemma
>
>
>Often when writing a bean for use by a tag, I seem to be writing a
>equivalent method that returns a string value for a boolean property.
>
>For example:
>
>If I mean to pass a boolean property isInactive, I am also writing a
>getInactiveFlag which returns "N" or "Y" based on isInactive.
>
>I use inactiveFlag in my tag definition and inside my tag I check for
>"Y" or "N".
>
>Am I totally missing something or is there a better way to do this?
>
>TIA
>
>
>
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