I'm trying to pass a parameter with <portlet:actionURL> to a portlet in liferay, but it turns out that, using EL to pass values in not working, however, using JSP expression tag is working fine.
Here's my relevant code:
<%
ResultRow row = (ResultRow)request.getAttribute(WebKeys.SEARCH_CONTAINER_RESULT_ROW);
Course course = (Course) row.getObject();
long groupId = themeDisplay.getLayout().getGroupId();
String name = Course.class.getName();
String primaryKey = String.valueOf(course.getPrimaryKey());
%>
<liferay-ui:icon-menu>
<c:if test="<%= permissionChecker.hasPermission(groupId, name, primaryKey, ActionKeys.UPDATE)%>">
<portlet:actionURL name="editCourse" var="editURL">
<portlet:param name="resourcePrimaryKey" value="${primaryKey}"/>
</portlet:actionURL>
<liferay-ui:icon image="edit" message="Edit" url="${editURL}" />
</c:if>
</liferay-ui:icon-menu>
As you see, in <portlet:param> tag, I have used EL for passing value attribute. But it doesn't work, and I receive the value as 0 for "resourcePrimaryKey" in my action method, when I do:
long courseId = ParamUtil.getLong(request, "resourcePrimaryKey");
// courseId is 0 here
However, if I use JSP expression tag in place of EL, it works fine:
<portlet:actionURL name="editCourse" var="editURL">
<portlet:param name="resourcePrimaryKey" value="<%= primaryKey %>"/>
</portlet:actionURL>
Now, I get the required value for "resourcePrimaryKey".
Can anyone figure what's going on here? Surprisingly, EL at other place work fine, as you see - ${editURL} value for url attribute, is working fine, and redirecting to the corresponding url.
I came across this thread on apache mail archive regarding the same issue, but that doesn't really solve the problem.
A variable in the scriptlet cannot be used directly in an EL, you would first need to set it like:
<c:set var="primKey"><%=primaryKey %></c:set>
and use ${primKey} or set it as a request attribute:
request.setAttribute("primKey", primaryKey);
Clearly, better would be to directly use the expression.
Also regarding the ${editURL} working, it is a portlet jsp tag which sets the variable in the page context so that it is available to the EL.
Our el wiki is a good place to know these things, look out for the heading Make objects available to EL for this question :-)
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I have a scenario in which i am rendering a jsp page .One of my value is in my model Form entity.I am assigning it in one of my form input like below :
<s:hidden name="myModelName.myUserName"/>
I am trying to assign it to my java variable inside my jsp.I tried accessing the model directly like this
<%= String myName = myModelName.myUserName %>
But i get error message "myModelName cannot be resolved.I have then tried accessing from the hidden field.But i dont know how to use it.Anyway i need the value in java variable inside jsp for some reason.Anyone help me out how to do it
You can do something like this:
assign your model property value to variable userName
<c:set var="userName" scope="session" value="${myModelName.myUserName}"/>
and then you can output it using this tag:
<c:out value = "${userName}"/>
You can read more about JSTL tags here: Using JSTL tags
Hope this helps. Ask if you need anything else.
I’m trying to use a JSTL conditional statement on a .jsp page in a Spring MVC app.
I have a model called user and an attribute called gender. The value of gender is displayed when I use this line in the .jsp:
${user.gender}
Specifically, in this case the value is ‘M’. But I want to display a literal ‘Male’ when the value is ‘M’. Based on the documentation I’ve found, my code should be:
<c:if test="${user.gender=='M'}">Male</c:if>
However, that doesn’t display anything. Any ideas what I’m doing wrong here?
The gender variable is defined as a String in my User model class.
I found a fix. As it turns out, my ${user.gender} value was for some reason getting padded with spaces. Thus, I had to trim off those spaces for the conditional to work. For that I used the JSTL trim function:
<c:set var="genderstring" value="${user.gender}"/>
<c:set var="genderstringtrimmed" value="${fn:trim(genderstring)}" />
Then I changed the conditional, which now works:
<c:if test="${genderstringtrimmed=='M'}">Male</c:if>
try
<c:if test="${user.gender.equals('M')}">Male</c:if>
In PHP we can do the following with the help of Variable variables in PHP:
$privateVar = 'Hello!';
$publicVar = 'privateVar';
echo $$publicVar; // Hello!
Suppose we have the following chunk of Java code:
request.setAttribute("privateVar", "Hello!");
request.setAttribute("publicVar", "privateVar");
I've tried the following but an error occurs.
${${publicVar}}
Does anyone know how we can get value of privateVar via using only publicVar in JSP (JSTL)?
UPDATE 1:
I have a custom tag which allows to print a message if an object foo doesn't have a field bar.
I know I must catch exceptions in the case but I don't want to handle ones in JSP. I want to do it only in CustomTag file.
<%-- JSP file --%>
<ctf:tagName varName="foo.bar" />
<%-- CustomTag file --%>
<%# attribute name="varName" required="true" rtexprvalue="true"%>
<c:catch var="exception">
<c:set var="valX" value="${${varName}}" scope="page"/>
</c:catch>
<c:if test="${exception != null}">Can't find getter for the VAR in the OBJ.</c:if>
UPDATE 2:
JB Nizet gave me the answer and the following works well! :)
<c:set var="privateVar" value="Hello!" />
<c:set var="publicVar" value="privateVar" />
${pageScope[pageScope.publicVar]}
I don't think you can directly do this in the same way that you can in PHP. Instead you could change the attribute to use the value of the privateVar instead of the name, like this:
String privateVar = "Hello!";
request.setAttribute("privateVar", privateVar);
request.setAttribute("publicVar", privateVar);
This gives you access to the value under both names, which I think is the closest you'd get. No need to even put the attribute privateVar in the request if you are ultimately going to use publicVar on the JSP.
Ultimately you may want to rethink the design here as it doesn't really work in Java.
The basics:
That's not JSTL but Expression Language. And you should only use a single ${} evaluator. The code would be:
${publicVar}
More info:
StackOverflow Expression Language wiki
To your problem:
Expression Language doesn't allow that. You cannot have private attributes in any scope (page, request, session, application), so you can at most set the attribute twice with different names but the same value. But as you may note, this is useless.
I am trying to get attribute of spanId and set Attribute by using request. Then I want to pass the output. Although the first input is has value, it still return me null.
Below are my codes. Help will be appreciate! :)
<input id="spanId" name="spanId">
<%
String spanId = request.getParameter("spanId");
request.setAttribute("spanId",spanId);
%>
<%= request.getParameter("spanId") %>">
Use the getAttribute method instead of getParameter() like
<%= request.getAttribute("spanId") %>">
Just think if you are setting an attribute to request object how you can get it? by using getAttribute.... String spanId = request.getAttribute("spanId").
Also request attribute has request scope (scope lasts only till 1 request).
More on this over here http://docs.oracle.com/javaee/1.4/api/javax/servlet/jsp/JspContext.html
Avoid using scripting elements in your JSP.. remember you are tightly coupling your presentation and business logic.
I am redirecting to a JSP that has to print the whole incoming query string. Like in this other question, Request parameter in jsp page, I do not want to access one parameter but the whole query string which I would accomplish in a scriptlet like: <%= request.getQueryString() %>
Thanks!
You can get the paramater object by OGNL stack value #parameters
http://struts.apache.org/2.0.14/docs/ognl-basics.html
If you want to iterate it, you can do something like ( this example create hidden input for each param)
<s:iterator value="#parameters" var="param">
<s:hidden name="%{#param.key}" value="%{#param.value}" />
</s:iterator>
You can user s:iterator tag in struts2 and you can get your string value in Jsp by OGNL lang which is supported by Struts2 without writing code in Scriptlet.
Please check below links for your reference.
http://www.vaannila.com/struts-2/struts-2-example/struts-2-ognl-expression-language-example-1.html
http://www.vaannila.com/struts-2/struts-2-example/struts-2-iterator-tag-example1.html