Spring MVC: How do I display the Object elements/keys not the values?

[laura mccord]

I have passed an Object (not a hashmap) to a jsp page. I want to display the elements of the objects not only the values of the elements. How do I do that?

There are conditions that I want to perform based on the key but since its an object and not a Hashmap of objects I can't loop through the object. At least I don't think so...

For example... If I have a Object called AddressBook and I pass one instance of AddressBook to a jsp page I want to display the labels (Phone, Email, Address, City, State, etc,,,) dynamically.

I can access the information directly like ${addressbook.email} without a loop to display the value but I'd like to display the keys.

Thanks.

[Mark Spritzler]

You can always code to Java Reflection.

Mark

[laura mccord]

thanks for the tip.

I think I posted this in the general forum because I later thought perhaps this wasn't the right category to post this issue...oops! I got a soft reprimand

[Bear Bibeault]

If you'd like to have this moved, just ask one of the mods -- please don't duplicate post.

Personally, I'd use a Map before resorting to reflection (which would require using scriptlets -- a really really bad idea). It'd be fairly easy to populate a Map from the bean data, and forward the Map along to the JSP. And using a LinkedHashMap would even let you specify order.