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
Message-ID:
<9spnckF2cdU1@mid.individual.net>
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:

<p>jstl: ${rates.keys}</p>


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>
<p>data: ${data}</p>
<p>data.keys: ${data.keys}</p>
<p>data.getKeys():
<%= ((example.SimTable) pageContext.findAttribute("data")).getKeys() %>
</p>
</body>
</html>

****** HTML output

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

</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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