Hi Tobias, How would you do this using JSTL?
Here is the test case I tried: Create a file called html.jsp -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- <[EMAIL PROTECTED] import="org.apache.sling.api.resource.ValueMap" %> <[EMAIL PROTECTED] prefix="sling" uri="http://sling.apache.org/taglibs/sling/1.0"; %> <[EMAIL PROTECTED] prefix="c" uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core"; %> <sling:defineObjects /> <% request.setAttribute("example", "hello world"); pageContext.setAttribute("vm", resource.adaptTo(ValueMap.class)); %> <html> <body> <h1>Demo using scriptlet</h1> <%= ((ValueMap) resource.adaptTo(ValueMap.class)).get("myref") %> <h1>Demo using JSTL</h1> <c:out value="${vm.myref}"/> <h1>Demo using evalProperty</h1> <sling:evalProperty property="myref"/> </body> </html> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use Curl to set everything up: curl -X MKCOL http://admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:8888/apps curl -X MKCOL http://admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:8888/apps/foo curl -X MKCOL http://admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:8888/apps/foo/bar curl -X PUT -d @html.jsp http://admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED] :8888/apps/foo/bar/html.jsp curl -F"sling:resourceType=foo/bar" -F'myref=${example}' http://admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:8888/content/mynode Open browers at: http://mactrott:8888/content/mynode.html Here is the result: ---------------------------------------------- Demo using scriptlet ${example} Demo using JSTL ${example} Demo using evalProperty hello world ---------------------------------------------- Is there a better way of doing this so that JSTL will evaluate the property? With regard to your point about direct DB access being "discouraged" this isn't really an option for me, as I am looking at converting a large app and pieces are going to need to come from the DB for some time. However thats not really whats important to me, the goal I am trying to achieve is to provide an extra level of indirection, whether that be use to access a DB, a different branch of the JCR or some other data source. The end goal is basically to be able to build a page using a GUI and just drop to components on, one to load data from "somewhere" and one to visually present it. Thanks, David On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 2:09 AM, Tobias Bocanegra (JIRA) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > > [ > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SLING-577?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=12615924#action_12615924] > > Tobias Bocanegra commented on SLING-577: > ---------------------------------------- > > this is already possible when using JSTL and binding the properties (i.e > resource.adaptTo(ValueMap.class) to the page context. > > directly accessing the DB is discouraged since all content should come from > the repository. >
