Creating dynamic EL Method Expressions?

[Björn Wessman]

Hi!

I would like to combine the values of two different page scoped objects to create a method expression in EL.

I have a bean object "bean" which is a java bean with a number of properties (with getters and setters) and then i have a "beanProperty" object which is the name of the property whose getter i want to invoke on the "bean" object.

In the EL expression, I can "hard code" the name of the property like this: <c:out value="${bean.hardCodedNameOfProperty}"/>

But the name of the property i want to invoke on my bean is stored in my "beanProperty" variable, so what I would like to do is something like this:

<c:out value="${bean.${beanProperty}}"/>

But EL can't parse such an expression...

Does anyone know if it is even possible to achieve what I'm trying to do?

BR,

Björn

[Devaka Cooray]

You can call it as: ${bean.[beanProperty]}

[Björn Wessman]

Devaka Cooray wrote:You can call it as: ${bean.[beanProperty]}

Hi Devaka!

Thank you for the reply. I had to remove the dot from your example to make it work, like this:

${bean[beanProperty]}

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction, really appreciate it :)

[Devaka Cooray]

Björn Wessman wrote:I had to remove the dot from your example

Yep, that was a typo