JSP/Java: Why doesn't this switch() work?

[apinomus]

So I'm trying to do some work on another site that uses JSP... and while I could do all of this 100x faster in PHP, they insist it stays JSP because "that's what our guys know" so whatever. Could somebody tell me why this causes my script to error?

It's supposed to bring in the GET variable t= from the URL, compare it to all cases in the switch to make sure its a valid type, then pass it into the hidden form field to be POST'd to the next page of the form. If it's not valid, then show the drop-down menu so they can select what they want.

Thanks for any help you guys can give me.

http://localhost/myform.jsp?t=voice_new

 

[MrChad]

switch() only works with primitives, not String objects.

http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/java/nutsandbolts/switch.html

 

[apinomus]

Originally posted by: MrChad
switch() only works with primitives, not String objects.

http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/java/nutsandbolts/switch.html

Thanks. I'm glad every resource I've found on the web makes this perfectly clear...

 

[JasonE4]

Yeah, kind of stupid. I've always hated doing a bunch of else ifs instead of switches with strings in java.

 

[apinomus]

Originally posted by: JasonE4
Yeah, kind of stupid. I've always hated doing a bunch of else ifs instead of switches with strings in java.

Not even that. Hell, if this were PHP I'd be doing if(in_array($testval, $safevals)), or a foreach() or something of the 20 different ways you could do it, but lack of how to do those iin Java results in:

 

[Templeton]

Originally posted by: apinomus

Originally posted by: JasonE4
Yeah, kind of stupid. I've always hated doing a bunch of else ifs instead of switches with strings in java.

Not even that. Hell, if this were PHP I'd be doing if(in_array($testval, $safevals)), or a foreach() or something of the 20 different ways you could do it, but lack of how to do those iin Java results in:

java has very rich collections, there's no need to write code like that