<c:out value="${CONSTANTS.WHATEVER)"/>Will output the string value but will not be able to be used to resolve the bean by that
name.
I'm giving up on JSTL constants. Nice idea ... but too expensive on my hairline.
--b
Rick Reumann wrote:
On Wed, 07 Jul 2004 20:12:02 +0200, Bryan Hunt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
And it works fine, but really what I am trying to get here is the value of using Constants in
both my Actions and my ( JSTL based ) jsp's.
You need to have all your Constants in a Map that is in application scope. Kris Schneider posted this great piece of code to add to your Constants file to return all your constants as a Map. At app start up I have a servlet that does several things, one of which call the properties method to put all the stuff in a Map and then you can just put that in scope:
//in some servlet at startup: ServletContext context = contextEvent.getServletContext(); context.setAttribute("CONSTANTS", UIConstants.getConstantsMap());
(Below you don't need to do like I have. I had other reasons to do it this way at the time. But just provide the getConstantFieldsAsMap() method )
//example class: UIConstants
private static Map constantsMap; static { constantsMap = getConstantFieldsAsMap(UIConstants.class); }
public static Map getConstantsMap() { return constantsMap; }
//all your constants: public final static String WHATEVER = "whatever";
//this does the work.. thanks Kris
private static Map getConstantFieldsAsMap(Class cls) {
Map propMap = null;
try {
Field[] allFields = cls.getDeclaredFields();
int numFields = allFields.length;
propMap = new HashMap(numFields);
for(int i = 0; i < numFields; i++) {
Field f = allFields[i];
int mods = f.getModifiers();
if(Modifier.isPublic(mods) && Modifier.isStatic(mods) && Modifier.isFinal(mods)) {
String name = f.getName();
Object value = f.get(null);
log.debug("Putting name = " + name + " and value=" + value + " into propMap");
propMap.put(name, value);
}
}
} catch(IllegalAccessException ie) {
log.error("Problem loading constantFieldsAsMap " + ie);
}
return Collections.unmodifiableMap(propMap);
}
//end class
Now in JSP you can just do:
<c:out value="${CONSTANTS.WHATEVER)"/>
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