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passing a string value to jsp:setProperty

           Summary: passing a string value to jsp:setProperty
           Product: Tomcat 4
           Version: 4.1.30
          Platform: Sun
        OS/Version: Solaris
            Status: NEW
          Severity: Major
          Priority: Other
         Component: Jasper
        AssignedTo: tomcat-dev@jakarta.apache.org
        ReportedBy: hneiper@reliant.com


We are moving from Weblogic 8.1 to Tomcat 4.1.30.  

We are calling a bean to retrieve data to be presented to the view.  Two
properties are being set using jsp:setProperty, both of the values passed are
strings.  One of which is a number represented as a String(type).  

Having taken a look at the jasper src I found that the only type that is not
supported for the property value is String.  It appears that it handles double,
int, short, long, Object, etc... - but no String.  

    public static void handleSetProperty(Object bean, String prop,
					 double value)
	throws JasperException


Steps to reproduce
1) create a bean to retrieve data
    the bean should include a setter method accepting a String 
2) defne a variable of type String with the value of '1'
3) set the property in the JSP with the variable from '2)'

Actual results
Application failed.

Expected results
Application should display view (JSP)

Error:
exception 

org.apache.jasper.JasperException
	at
org.apache.jasper.runtime.JspRuntimeLibrary.handleSetProperty(JspRuntimeLibrary.java:535)
	at
org.apache.jsp.my_account_profile_jsp._jspService(my_account_profile_jsp.java:2380)
	at org.apache.jasper.runtime.HttpJspBase.service(HttpJspBase.java:137)
	at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:853)
........

root cause 

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException
	at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor67.invoke(Unknown Source)
	at
sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
	at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:324)
	at
org.apache.jasper.runtime.JspRuntimeLibrary.handleSetProperty(JspRuntimeLibrary.java:533)
	at
org.apache.jsp.my_account_profile_jsp._jspService(my_account_profile_jsp.java:2380)
	at org.apache.jasper.runtime.HttpJspBase.service(HttpJspBase.java:137)
	at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:853)
.........


Example of code in compiled JSP for jsp:setProperty:
JspRuntimeLibrary.handleSetProperty(pageContext.findAttribute("content"),
"localeId",localeId);



Is it part of the Servlet Spec not to handle this or is this just an oversight?
 If it is an oversight can it be included in subsequent releases, or is it a
part of the spec and cannot be changed?

Thanks,

Harold

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