Struts2 - Adding Properties to the pageContext

Struts2 - Adding Properties to the pageContext

In struts2, to access a property inside a JSP that we set in the overridden execute method of Action Interface, we use the following property tag:

<s:property value="results" />

where   s  is an alias for struts-tags tag library and   results  is a Collection (can be anything) that we've populated in   execute  method. Note here that it must be a variable/property in you action handler class with both of its getter and setter methods available. The property tag will call the   getResults()  getter method.
This is clean. But it should be noted that   results  is not available in the   pageContext  of the page being processed currently. So, for example, if you want to use the   results  collection inside a jsp scriptlet by doing something like

pageContext.getAttribute("results")

this will not work. You cannot even say something like

request.getAttribute("results")

Anyways, it's possible and pretty clean too :) All you've to do is to set the   pageContext  attribute by using another struts tag,

<s:set name="pageResults" value="%{results}" />

This is equivalent to

pageContext.setAttribute("pageResults",results)

but the later won't work. The name is what you want to name the   results  in the   pageContext, like a variable name; and the value is its value. So here, Set tag will call   getResults()  and assign the returned value to a pageContext  variable called   pageResults.

That's it :)

Posted by Salman Jamali  at 11:49 AM

Labels: struts pageContext struts-tags jsp liferay