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;
}
}
}
}