Make JSF access a Map values from an EL instead of a bean fields?

问题

Is there any proper way to override the way JSF accesses the beans fields from an Expression Language? The idea is to mimic this behavior in order to access a Map<String, ?> values, where the bean fields would be the map keys.

In other words, is it possible anyhow to use #{beanContainingNestedMap.keyOfSaidNestedMap}, just as if keyOfSaidNestedMap were a field of the beanContainingNestedMap?

If not, what other solution may I have?

Example:

Holder.java

public class Holder {

    private Map<String, Object> objects = new HashMap<String, Object>();

    public void add(String key, Object value) {
        objects.put(key, value);
    }

    public Object getObject(String key) {
        return objects.get(key);
    }

}

ExampleBean.java

public class ExampleBean {

    private Holder holder = new Holder();

    public ExampleBean() {
        holder.add("foo", 42);
        holder.add("bar", 'X');
    }

    public Holder getHolder() {
        return holder;
    }

}

example.xhtml

<c:out value="#{exampleBean.holder.foo}" /> <!-- should print "42" -->
<c:out value="#{exampleBean.holder.bar}" /> <!-- should print "X" -->

What would be great is if I could do something like (kind of pseudo-code since I don't know if such a method exists ;)):

@Override // override JSF's (if any...)
public Object resolveEl(String el) {
    try {
        super.resolveEl(el);
    } catch (ElException e) {
        Object bean = e.getBean();
        String fieldName = e.getFieldName();
        if (bean instanceof Holder) {
            Holder holder = (Holder) bean;
            Object value = holder.getObject(fieldName);
            if (value == null) {
                throw e;
            } else {
                return value;
            }
        }
    }
}

回答1:

You can directly use map by EL.

Holder.java

public class Holder {

    private Map<String, Object> objects = new HashMap<String, Object>();

    public void add(String key, Object value) {
        objects.put(key, value);
    }

    public Map<String, Object> getObjectsMap() {
        return objects;
    }

}

#{exampleBean.holder.objectsMap[your-key]}

回答2:

This problem is not about JSF but EL. As noted in @BalusC comment, you can directly use the notation you already want/need with Map objects. I've prepared a basic example on this (note: this is just an example and should remain as is or improved since it uses scriptlets and we must avoid scriptlets usage but made it for a quick dirty test):

<%@page import="edu.home.model.entity.User"%>
<%@page import="java.util.HashMap"%>
<%@page import="java.util.Map"%>
<%@ page language="java" contentType="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"
    pageEncoding="ISO-8859-1"%>
<%@ taglib prefix="c" uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core" %>
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
<title>Insert title here</title>
</head>
<body>
    <%
        //Scriptlets usage, sorry. This code must be moved to a Servlet or another controller component
        //defining the map
        Map<String, User> aMap = new HashMap<String, User>();
        //defining a value for the map
        User user = new User();
        user.setFirstName("Luiggi");
        user.setLastName("Mendoza");
        //adding the value in the map 
        aMap.put("userLM", user);
        //making the map accesible in EL through PageContext attribute
        pageContext.setAttribute("aMap", aMap);
    %>
    <!-- Accessing directly to the userLM key and its attributes -->
    ${aMap.userLM.firstName} - ${aMap.userLM.lastName}
</body>
</html>

User class code (minimized for test purposes):

public class User {
    private String firstName;
    private String lastName;
    //empty constructor
    //getters and setters
}

This generates a JSP page that prints:

Luiggi - Mendoza

Note that this (except the scriptlet part) will work on a Facelets page as well since this is EL and not JSF.

来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17884028/make-jsf-access-a-mapstring-values-from-an-el-instead-of-a-bean-fields

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Make JSF access a Map<String, ?> values from an EL instead of a bean fields?

问题

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