Re: JSTL: getting a map's keys

From:
Lew <noone@lewscanon.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Fri, 23 Mar 2012 13:50:55 -0700
Message-ID:
<jkinnf$dv8$1@news.albasani.net>
Chris Riesbeck wrote:

Lew wrote:

Chris Riesbeck wrote:

Lew wrote:

Chris Riesbeck wrote:


So I don't see how I can have a class such that in the JSP EL I can call
a method to get all the keys, and also retrieve data with a key using [].


I was thinking along the lines of this incompletely worked-through notion:

public class ContactScreenBacker
{
private final Map<String, Rate> rates = howeverYouSetItUp();
public Map<String, Rate> getRates() { return
Collections.unmodifiableMap(rates); }
public Set<String> getKeys() { return
Collections.unmodifiableSet(rates.getKeys(); }
// ...
}

You should be able to use an EL like '#{thingie.rates["Bill"]}'. I
haven't tried it, but this is what I had in mind.


Yes, that's probably the approach I'll take. Not quite what I'd wanted, but
close enough and I can't see why it shouldn't work.


Let us know how it plays out, please.

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Lew
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