c:forEach NumberFormatException for variable in start value - jstl

Question

I upgraded JSTL from 1.1.x to 1.2 and am now getting a NFE when I try to compile a jsp with code like the following:
<c:set var="bidCount" value="1"/>
<c:forEach var="i" begin="${bidCount}" end="${totalCount}">
...
</c:forEach>
Even when I am 100% certain that the var bidCount contains an integer, I still get a NFE.
Stack trace:
java.lang.NumberFormatException: For input string: "${bidCount}"
at java.lang.NumberFormatException.forInputString(NumberFormatException.java:48)
at java.lang.Integer.parseInt(Integer.java:449)
at java.lang.Integer.valueOf(Integer.java:554)
at org.apache.jasper.compiler.JspUtil.coerceToInt(JspUtil.java:752)
at org.apache.jasper.compiler.Generator$GenerateVisitor.convertString(Generator.java:2948)
at org.apache.jasper.compiler.Generator$GenerateVisitor.evaluateAttribute(Generator.java:2751)
at org.apache.jasper.compiler.Generator$GenerateVisitor.generateSetters(Generator.java:2857)
at org.apache.jasper.compiler.Generator$GenerateVisitor.generateCustomStart(Generator.java:2176)
at org.apache.jasper.compiler.Generator$GenerateVisitor.visit(Generator.java:1685)
at org.apache.jasper.compiler.Node$CustomTag.accept(Node.java:1441)
at org.apache.jasper.compiler.Node$Nodes.visit(Node.java:2163)
at org.apache.jasper.compiler.Node$Visitor.visitBody(Node.java:2213)
at org.apache.jasper.compiler.Node$Visitor.visit(Node.java:2219)
at org.apache.jasper.compiler.Node$Root.accept(Node.java:456)
at org.apache.jasper.compiler.Node$Nodes.visit(Node.java:2163)
at org.apache.jasper.compiler.Generator.generate(Generator.java:3304)
at org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.generateJava(Compiler.java:198)
at org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.compile(Compiler.java:295)
at org.apache.jasper.JspC.processFile(JspC.java:986)
at org.apache.jasper.JspC.execute(JspC.java:1135)
at org.codehaus.mojo.jspc.AbstractJspcMojo.execute(AbstractJspcMojo.java:248)
at org.apache.maven.plugin.DefaultBuildPluginManager.executeMojo(DefaultBuildPluginManager.java:106)
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.MojoExecutor.execute(MojoExecutor.java:208)
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.MojoExecutor.execute(MojoExecutor.java:153)
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.MojoExecutor.execute(MojoExecutor.java:145)
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.LifecycleModuleBuilder.buildProject(LifecycleModuleBuilder.java:84)
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.LifecycleModuleBuilder.buildProject(LifecycleModuleBuilder.java:59)
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.LifecycleStarter.singleThreadedBuild(LifecycleStarter.java:183)
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.LifecycleStarter.execute(LifecycleStarter.java:161)
at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.doExecute(DefaultMaven.java:317)
at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.execute(DefaultMaven.java:152)
at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.execute(MavenCli.java:555)
at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.doMain(MavenCli.java:214)
at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.main(MavenCli.java:158)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.launchEnhanced(Launcher.java:289)
at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.launch(Launcher.java:229)
at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.mainWithExitCode(Launcher.java:415)
at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.main(Launcher.java:356)
at org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.main(Launcher.java:46)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
at com.intellij.rt.execution.application.AppMain.main(AppMain.java:120)
I am using JSTL 1.2. Here's the start of my web.xml:
<web-app xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd"
version="2.5">
And here is the dependency in my pom.xml:
<dependency>
<groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
<artifactId>jstl</artifactId>
<version>1.2</version>
</dependency>
Oh, also, editing to add, I confirmed that the jstl jar is in my war file:
$ jar -tvf mexp-webapp-3.0-SNAPSHOT.war | grep jstl
414240 Fri Dec 20 12:12:38 EST 2013 WEB-INF/lib/jstl-1.2.jar

Answer 1

Check if you have correct declaration
<%# taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core" prefix="c"%>