[NESTED] Looking for getter in the wrong bean

[Sri Sankaran <Sr...@sas.com>]

Using Struts 1.1b3

A page fails to load with an exception that says that the necessary getter is not available in a bean.  The trouble is that the framework is looking at the wrong bean.

A little more background: The problem code looks like this:

<nested:form action="products.do">

  <nested:iterate
    property="prodsNotInstalled"
        type="com.sas.mis.qs.struts.bean.ProductBean"
          id="currentProduct">

    <nested:multibox
      property="../selectedItems">
      <nested:write property="software_code"/>
    </nested:multibox>

  </nested:iterate>

</nested:form>

This results in the error 

  No getter method for property prodsNotInstalled[0].software_code 
  of bean sitebean' 

Now, the action mapping for the action 'products.do' is

    <action path="/products"
            name="products"
            validate="true"
            type="com.sas.mis.qs.struts.action.ProductsAction"
            scope="session"
            input="Products">
      <forward name="next"
               path="Quantities"/>
    </action>


So, the above <nested:form> should be working with a form-bean called 'products'.  Why is it looking for a bean called 'sitebean'?

My own sleuthing has revealed that the culprit is a segment of code preceding the <nested:form> that I've shown above.  It looks like

<nested:root name="sitebean">
  <%-- stuff happens here --%>
</nested:root>

Why should this matter?  I'm closing out the <nested:root>.  I found that commenting out this section results in the <nested:form> working correctly.

As an aside : This code works verbatim in Struts 1.0.2

Any thoughts?

Sri