Name

BodyTagSupport

Synopsis

BodyTagSupport is a support class that provides default implementations of all BodyTag interface methods. It’s intended to be used as a superclass for tag handlers that need access to the body contents of the corresponding custom action element.

Synopsis

Class name:

javax.servlet.jsp.tagext.BodyTagSupport

Extends:

javax.servlet.jsp.tagext.TagSupport

Implements:

BodyTag

Implemented by:

Internal container-dependent class. Most containers use the reference implementation of the class (developed in the Apache Jakarta project).

Fields

protected javax.servlet.jsp.tagext.BodyContent bodyContent

Constructor

public BodyTagSupport( )

Creates a new BodyTagSupport instance.

Methods

public int doAfterBody( )

Returns SKIP_BODY.

public int doEndTag( )

Returns EVAL_PAGE.

public void doInitBody( )

This method does nothing in the BodyTagSupport class.

public int doStartTag( )

Returns EVAL_BODY_BUFFERED.

public BodyContent getBodyContent( )

Returns the BodyContent object assigned to this instance.

public JspWriter getPreviousOut( )

Returns the enclosing writer of the BodyContent object assigned to this instance.

public void release( )

Removes the references to all objects held by this instance.

public void setBodyContent(BodyContent b)

Saves a reference to the BodyContent in the bodyContent instance variable.

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