JPA Entity for Drop Down columns(How to populate the dropdown) - dropdown

Question

I'm in the same boat where this guy was 6 years ago
my question is did i do anything wrong here?
<select name="gender">
<c:forEach items="${Person.Gender.values()}" var="type">
<option value="${type}">${type}</option>
</c:forEach>
</select>
I have a POJO named Account
#Entity
public class Account implements Serializable {
#Id
#GeneratedValue(strategy = GenerationType.AUTO)
private Long userId;
private long AccountNumber;
private String fName;
private String lName;
…
And I have a enum
public enum Gender {male, female};
#Enumerated(EnumType.STRING)
private Gender gender;
}
This is the way I’m triying to populate the dropped down list in the jsp, but it is not working
<select name="gender">
<c:forEach items=“${Account.Gender.values()}" var="type">
<option value="${type}">${type}</option>
</c:forEach>
</select>
i have tried to use jsp usebean tag to import the class and I’m still not get expected result. instead i GETjavax.el.PropertyNotFoundException:`

Answer 1

To solve the problem i (1) - created a getGenderType() and (2)-add use tag for Account class in the jsp.
#Entity
public class Account implements Serializable {
#Id
#GeneratedValue(strategy = GenerationType.AUTO)
private Long userId;
private long AccountNumber;
private String fName;
private String lName;
…
And I have a enum
public enum Gender {male, female};
#Enumerated(EnumType.STRING)
private Gender gender;
}
//this will available in the jsp as genderTypes
public List <Gender> getGenderTypes(){
return Arrays.asList( Gender.male,
Gender.female);
}
this is the jsp
<jsp:usebean id="account" scope="session" class="java.class.Account"/>
<select name="gender">
<c:forEach items=“${account.genderTypes}" var="type">
<option value="${type}">${type}</option>
</c:forEach>
</select>