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Simple Tag - Get Request Object

 
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Hi All,

I'm trying to come up with a workaround for the lack of any method in the SimpleTagSupport API for getting the current Servlet Request. I read a hint on a website that the EL expression evaluation API can be used, and I'm trying to get it to work using a variation of the following approach. Is what I'm trying even possible?

 
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a workaround for the lack of any method in the SimpleTagSupport API



No workaround is necessary.

Did you check the API of PageContext? (Hint: the JspContext available to the tag is an instance of PageContext).
 
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I've tried the following:



but the compiler complains, saying I can't cast from a JspContext to a PageContext.
 
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The compiler? What's the nature of the error?

From the API docs:

javax.servlet.jsp
Class JspContext

java.lang.Object
javax.servlet.jsp.JspContext
Direct Known Subclasses:
PageContext



See http://java.sun.com/j2ee/1.4/docs/api/javax/servlet/jsp/JspContext.html
 
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The error I'm getting from the compiler is:
"Cannot cast from JspContext to PageContext"

I'm totally stumped, I've checked out the javadocs on the sun website at http://java.sun.com/j2ee/1.4/docs/api/javax/servlet/jsp/PageContext.html which say exactly what you say, but yet my compiler doesn't allow it.
 
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Hi Bear,

I've solved it! There was a servlet-2.3.jar and a jsp-api-2.0.jar file on my project classpath, and the compiler was loading the PageContext from the servlet jar, which seems to be incompatible with the jsp-api JspContext. Thanks for your help.
 
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Ah yes! That would do it. Make sure that you don't have any out-of-date API in the classpath!
 
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Thanks for posting your solution for the problem Colin. Helped me solve my problem too.
 
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suneel gundlapalli wrote:Thanks for posting your solution for the problem Colin. Helped me solve my problem too.


mine, too
 
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But I have one basic doubt. How did this approach work? PageContext is a child of JspContext. And PageContext has extra methods such as getRequest() which are not defined for JspContext. If I cast an object of JspContext into PageContext and access getRequest from this instance, shouldn't I get a run time exception? How can the object of JspContext access a method which it has not defined? Is this some kind of a new trick?
 
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No, this is just basic Java. The instance of the object is an instance of PageContext to begin with, so there's no problem casting it to what it really is.
 
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Ok...So you mean to say that the object returned has a reference type of JspContext but is actually an instance of PageContext...
 
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Yes.
 
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