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My code is as follows:

[code]
<structure:childPages id="childPages" propertyName="pagesFolder"/>
<structure:sortPages id="childPages" input="${childPages}"/>
<c:forEach var="childPage" items="${childPages}" varStatus="count">
<!-- do stuff -->
</c:forEach>
[/code]

If I remove the sortPages tag this code works perfectly, I've also changed the id for the sortPages to sortedChildPages and it still doesn't work. The issue appears to be with the output of the childPages tag. I'm getting the following stacktrace:

[code]
An error occurred while evaluating custom action attribute "input" with value "[org.infoglue.deliver.applications.databeans.WebPage@1420a24, org.infoglue.deliver.applications.databeans.WebPage@a7f986, org.infoglue.deliver.applications.databeans.WebPage@1eed1e1, org.infoglue.deliver.applications.databeans.WebPage@151814, org.infoglue.deliver.applications.databeans.WebPage@dfd045]": Attempt to convert String "[org.infoglue.deliver.applications.databeans.WebPage@1420a24, org.infoglue.deliver.applications.databeans.WebPage@a7f986, org.infoglue.deliver.applications.databeans.WebPage@1eed1e1, org.infoglue.deliver.applications.databeans.WebPage@151814, org.infoglue.deliver.applications.databeans.WebPage@dfd045]" to type "java.util.List", but there is no PropertyEditor for that type (null)
[/code]

I've tried stepping through the sortPages tag in debug and this is happening on the setInput method.

Any thoughts?

Thanks,

Mark.]]> http://www.infoglue.org/forum/posts/preList/94/311.page http://www.infoglue.org/forum/posts/preList/94/311.page GMT http://www.infoglue.org/forum/posts/preList/94/313.page http://www.infoglue.org/forum/posts/preList/94/313.page GMT
]]> http://www.infoglue.org/forum/posts/preList/94/314.page http://www.infoglue.org/forum/posts/preList/94/314.page GMT [code]<structure:childPages id="childPages" siteNodeId="${menuBasePageSiteNodeId}"/>
<structure:sortPages id="childPages" input="${childPages}"/>
[/code]]]> http://www.infoglue.org/forum/posts/preList/94/315.page http://www.infoglue.org/forum/posts/preList/94/315.page GMT http://www.infoglue.org/forum/posts/preList/94/319.page http://www.infoglue.org/forum/posts/preList/94/319.page GMT [code] public void setInput(final String input) throws JspException
{
this.input = evaluateList("contentSort", "input", input);
}
[/code]
Which finally boils down to:
[code] protected Object evaluate(String tagName, String attributeName, String expression, Class expectedType) throws JspException
{
return ExpressionUtil.evalNotNull(tagName, attributeName, expression, expectedType, this, pageContext);
}
[/code]
To me it looks like that the input should be an expression, ${...something...}, (like you have) that should evaluate to a List. And that would mean that childPages is not a List... Which is bizarre, but who knows? If you use the code below (not tested), what does it say?
[code]<%= pageContext.getAttribute("childPages").getClass().getName() %>
[/code]]]> http://www.infoglue.org/forum/posts/preList/94/321.page http://www.infoglue.org/forum/posts/preList/94/321.page GMT
I total agreed with your deductions and had come to the same conclusion, and the code in my version 2.9.7.3 is the same.

When I output the debug message I get:

[code]java.util.ArrayList[/code]

As should be expected!

Mark.]]> http://www.infoglue.org/forum/posts/preList/94/322.page http://www.infoglue.org/forum/posts/preList/94/322.page GMT http://www.infoglue.org/Developers/Components/Component_detail_page/?contentId=539 uses sortPages. Does that one work for you (i.e. do you still have it in your repositories somewhere)? If it does, then you can try to find the difference between your component and that one, otherwise it looks like something broke at some point, I guess.]]> http://www.infoglue.org/forum/posts/preList/94/323.page http://www.infoglue.org/forum/posts/preList/94/323.page GMT
This is really strange, the Site Map demo does work, when I trap the setInput method on the SortPagesTag the value being passed in is an expression to be evaluated, i.e. [code]${childPages}[/code]
When I debug my own code the input property is being set with the already evaluated expression, i.e. [code][org.infoglue.deliver.applications.databeans.WebPage@182454, org.infoglue.deliver.applications.databeans.WebPage@f94672, org.infoglue.deliver.applications.databeans.WebPage@17ff11f, org.infoglue.deliver.applications.databeans.WebPage@af688a, org.infoglue.deliver.applications.databeans.WebPage@1f85c2c][/code]
Any thoughts?

Mark.]]> http://www.infoglue.org/forum/posts/preList/94/324.page http://www.infoglue.org/forum/posts/preList/94/324.page GMT http://www.infoglue.org/forum/posts/preList/94/325.page http://www.infoglue.org/forum/posts/preList/94/325.page GMT
Thanks, I knew it would be something simple, I just didn't know what.

Mark.]]> http://www.infoglue.org/forum/posts/preList/94/326.page http://www.infoglue.org/forum/posts/preList/94/326.page GMT ]]> http://www.infoglue.org/forum/posts/preList/94/327.page http://www.infoglue.org/forum/posts/preList/94/327.page GMT