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Posted to user@struts.apache.org by Incze Lajos <in...@mail.matav.hu> on 2001/03/01 00:08:02 UTC

Re: How does nested syntax in property attribute work

On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 06:15:05PM -0600, Shamdasani Nimmi-ANS004 wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> In some of the e-mails I have seen nested syntax being used for property attribute, e.g.,
> 
> <html:text property="mailingAddress.street"/>
> 
> what does that mean? Is it that the getMailingAddress() method of the bean will be called, and then what is ".street" for?
> 
> -Nimmi
> 
.street is the getStreet( ) method of the object returned by the
getMailingAddress( ) method of the acion bean tied to the action
of the surrounding html:form. This simple is that.        incze