Re: JSTL: getting a map's keys

From:

Chris Riesbeck <Chris.Riesbeck@gmail.com>

Newsgroups:

comp.lang.java.programmer

Date:

Mon, 19 Mar 2012 16:39:31 -0500

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On 3/19/2012 4:06 PM, Chris Riesbeck wrote:

On 3/19/2012 3:08 PM, Tim Slattery wrote:

Chris Riesbeck<Chris.Riesbeck@gmail.com> wrote:

jstl: ${rates.keys}

The EL here finds the object "rates" and looks for an attribute named
"keys". That means that if rates doesn't have a public method named
getKeys, the EL won't find anything.

Which it does. Here's a complete example, class and test JSP, and the
HTML output I get

****** CLASS

package example;

import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.Set;

public class SimTable extends HashMap<String, Object> {

public Set<String> getKeys() {
return keySet();
}
}

****** JSP

<%@ taglib prefix="c" uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core" %>

<%
final example.SimTable data = new example.SimTable();
data.put("Bill", 100); data.put("Mary", 150); data.put("Fred", 200);
pageContext.setAttribute("data", data);
%>

<!doctype HTML>
<html>
<head>
<title>Test</title>
</head>
<body>
data: ${data}
data.keys: ${data.keys}
data.getKeys():
<%= ((example.SimTable) pageContext.findAttribute("data")).getKeys() %>

</body>
</html>

****** HTML output

<!doctype HTML>
<html>
<head>
<title>Test</title>
</head>
<body>
data: {Bill=100, Mary=150, Fred 0}
data.keys: 
data.getKeys():
[Bill, Mary, Fred]


</body>
</html>

And I added these lines to my JSP to see if "keys" was appearing as a
property via the Introspector and it was

****** additional JSP

<c:set var="props"
 value='<%=
java.beans.Introspector.getBeanInfo(pageContext.findAttribute("data").getClass()).getPropertyDescriptors()
%>' />
<ul>
 <c:forEach var="prop" items="${props}">
 <li>${prop.name}</li>
 </c:forEach>
</ul>

****** additional HTML output

<ul>

 <li>class</li>

 <li>empty</li>

 <li>keys</li>

</ul>

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