[Riyad Kalla]

This one is a quickie:

Inside of scriplets:
<%
%>

autocomplete and all functionality works fine, however inside of simple insert scriplets:
<%= %>

all of the autocomplete functionality or context sensativity is dead. Are the rest of you seeing this too? I know, i shouldn’t be using scriplets 😀

[Scott Anderson]

I just gave this a try with the following results. The first code assist request inside a normal scriptlet took several seconds to display while all my taglibs were parsed, etc. However, it displayed correctly. After that, I tried a simple insert scriptlet here: <%= |%> and my list of completions was all the ‘this’ context of the JSP page (request and the like). I then tried <%=Str|%> and was given proper java content assist so I was unable to replicate what you’re seeing.

However, be advised that content assist can only function if the file is well-formed. If you have syntax errors above the area where you’re requesting assistance, content assist probably won’t work.

–Scott
MyEclipse Support

[Riyad Kalla]

Hmmm, it was a well formed file, but I can’t seem to get it to cough up any completes for me…

What happens if you open a page, and immediately add a <%= |

and try some autocompletting? Does it work? Admitedly I don’t have any <%%> scriplets in my pages, just the insertion ones…

[Scott Anderson]

What happens if you open a page, and immediately add a <%= |

In my particular case, there is a delay while all the taglibs are parsed, then code complete works. After you ask for a completion, can you move around the file, or is the JSP editor busy parsing in the background? If you leave the file open for a minute and come back to it, does completion work?

–Scott
MyEclipse Support

[Riyad Kalla]

Ok there is a slight delay (5 seconds or so) before the disk activity stops and all the taglibs color correctly. I get complete just fine with the taglibs themselves and so forth, but just in case, I left the file open for another minute and switched around to some other things and came back. Here’s a snapshot of my file:

<%@ page import="org.econport.ExperimentConstants" %>
<%@ taglib uri="http://jakarta.apache.org/struts/tags-bean" prefix="bean" %>
<%@ taglib uri="http://jakarta.apache.org/struts/tags-logic" prefix="logic" %>
<%@ taglib uri="http://jakarta.apache.org/struts/tags-html" prefix="html" %>

<table border="0" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0" class="PageContent" width="100%">
    <tr class="PageContentParagraphBG">
        <td>
            <logic:empty name="<%= ExperimentConstants.DTO_INPUT_GROUP_LIST %>">
                <font class="Error">
                    You must create atleast 1 input group in order to store inputs in it.
                    Please click the button    below to create your first input group.
                </font>
            </logic:empty>
            <logic:empty name="<%= Ex| <-- CURSOR HERE

Note where the cursor is, so lets assume I’m trying to autocomplete the ExperimentConstants class just like the logic:empty tag above it, it won’t autocomplete. Even if I close the tag (well formed) nothing happens, I just get the windows error bong (not the sharp beep, but the bong sound like when you try and type into a file that is write protected with textpad).

Even if I try and autocomplete by fully qualifying the name (assuming it won’t parse my imports) that doesn’t work either, just bong bong bong.

Any ideas? Did I make ME angry? 🙂

[Riyad Kalla]

Ahhh! I did more research and it seems the autocomplete is NOT avilable when using a scriplet to set values for a TAGLIB, with normal tags they work fine… but if I do something like I showed in my above example (trying to use a scriplet to set the value of the logic:empty taglib) it will not work.

Any ideas?

[No Operation]

my results:

<logic:empty name=”<%= S| %>” />
completion fails

<logic:empty name=”<%=S|%>” />
completion works

=> spaces seems to be the issue!

NOP

[Riyad Kalla]

Weird! Hey thanks for finding this out NOP, very subtle.

Scott can you guys put this on your radar for 2.7 possibly?

[Riyad Kalla]

More info!

This does not work:
<%=|

Nor does this:
<%= |

BUT, this works:
<%=|%>

so the scriplet has to be closed first, and there can be no space THEN it will work. Can we fix this? It *seems* to me you actually just need to dumb down your context parser, its too strict right now 🙂

[support-michael]

Fixed in MyEclipse 2.7RC2.

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