What is the simplest way to display httpServletResponse.sendError(403, “My Message”) status from JSTL

Question

I have a servlet which does some error checking and if something is wrong I will typically do this:

response.sendError(403, \"My message\")
return;
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Answer 1

The scriptlet:

<%= request.getAttribute("javax.servlet.error.message") %>

can be translated to the following EL:

${requestScope['javax.servlet.error.message']}

The brace notation bean['foo.bar'] is very useful if you have dots in Map or scoped key names, because bean.foo.bar obviously doesn't return the desired Map or scoped value.