[datagrid] Cannot use EL in attribute items

[Olaf Bergner <Ol...@de.easynet.net>]

I am currently evaluating the datagrid tag and in the process of porting a
simple homegrown pager. Our environment:

JBoss 3.2.6
JSTL 1.1
standard-1.1.2.jar
Java 1.4.2.

The list to be displayed is stored in session scope in the property
'filteredOrganizations' of the form-bean 'organizationSearchForm', i.e. the
following struts tag

<logic:iterate name="organizationSearchForm"
property="filteredOrganizations" ...></logic:iterate>

works.

My first problem was JBoss complaining that according to the TLD the
attribute 'items' does not accept an EL expression, so that compilation
failed. I modified the datagrid TLD so that the rtexprvalue attribute now
reads 'true'.

Now, a

<ui:dataGrid items="${organizationSearchForm.filteredOrganizations}" ...>

gives me an

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException
at org.apache.taglibs.datagrid.DataGridTag.setItems(DataGridTag.java:928).

The collection stored in organizationSearchForm.filteredOrganizations is of
type java.util.List, a java.util.ArrayList, to be exact. Since our web.xml
declares version 2.4 I understand that EL is enabled by default and any EL
expression is evaluated by the web container, so that the datagrid tag
should be passed a java.util.List instance. Is this assumption correct? What
am I doing wrong here?

Any help would be greatly appreciated, since this beast looks just like what
we need.

- Olaf -
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