entries

Description

This tag denotes a reference to the "entries" collection, as constructed by an appropriate fetch tag. This tag will iterate upon its body until the collection is exhausted, or as constrained by the start and count properties. The start and count properties should only be set when the iterate attribute is set to "false". This collection is typically used to contain the entries from the top level of an addressbook, which may contain contacts and groups.

Tag Body

JSP

Tag Parent

n/a

Restrictions

Address Book fetch should have happened prior to the invocation of this tag.

Attributes

This tag has the following attributes for which the required values are No:

id

Name of the entries collection to create.

name

Name of the entries collection to use.

iterate

A boolean that selects iteration. Default is "false", the collection will not iterate.

beanid

During iteration, specifies a name by which the current bean may be retrieved from the PageContext.

Properties

This tag provides the following bean properties, which has Integer value for Type and Get/Set for Access:

index

Index of the current bean in the collection.

count

The number of iterations the collection should perform.

start

The zero-based index from which to begin iteration.

end

The zero-based index that denotes the item upon which iteration will terminate.

startOne

One-based start; suitable for presentation.

endOne

One-based end; suitable for presentation.

size

The size of the collection being paged.

nextPage

Whether or not there are more items in the collection, beyond the current iterations.

prevPage

Whether there are items in the collection preceding the current iterations.

Example(s)

<%@ page errorPage="/jsp/errorpage.jsp" %>
<%@ taglib uri="/taglibs/ips_taglib_ab.jar" prefix="ab" %>

<ab:context/>
<ab:fetch ln="$(ln)" fn="$(fn)" bp="$(bp)" em="$(em)" hp="$(
hp)" fp="$(fp)" mp="$(mp)" pp="$(pp)" sb="ln" sd="up">

		Error in Looking up address book.

</ab:fetch>

		Number of Address Book entries:

<ab:context>
	<ab:get property="numEntries"/>
</ab:context>

	<ab:entries iterate="true">
	<ab:entry>
		Entry Id: <ab:get property="entryid"/>
		First Name: <ab:get property="fn"/>
		Last Name: <ab:get property="ln"/>
		Email: <ab:get property="em"/>
	</ab:entry>
/ab:entries>