How can I pass an object to a JSP tag?

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A slightly different question that I looked for here: “How do you pass an object to a tag file?”

Answer: Use the “type” attribute of the attribute directive:

<%@ attribute name="field" 
              required="true"
              type="com.mycompany.MyClass" %>

The type defaults to java.lang.String, so without it you’ll get an error if you try to access object fields saying that it can’t find the field from type String.

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