/* * Copyright 2002-2007 the original author or authors. * * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. * You may obtain a copy of the License at * * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 * * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and * limitations under the License. */ package org.springframework.web.servlet.tags; import java.beans.PropertyEditor; import java.io.IOException; import javax.servlet.jsp.JspException; import javax.servlet.jsp.tagext.TagSupport; import org.springframework.web.util.ExpressionEvaluationUtils; import org.springframework.web.util.HtmlUtils; import org.springframework.web.util.TagUtils; /** * Tag for transforming reference data values from form controllers and * other objects inside a <code>spring:bind</code> tag (or a data-bound * form element tag from Spring's form tag library). * * <p>The BindTag has a PropertyEditor that it uses to transform properties of * a bean to a String, useable in HTML forms. This tag uses that PropertyEditor * to transform objects passed into this tag. * * @author Alef Arendsen * @author Juergen Hoeller * @since 20.09.2003 * @see BindTag */ public class TransformTag extends HtmlEscapingAwareTag { /** the value to transform using the appropriate property editor */ private Object value; /** the variable to put the result in */ private String var; /** the scope of the variable the result will be put in */ private String scope = TagUtils.SCOPE_PAGE; /** * Set the value to transform, using the appropriate PropertyEditor * from the enclosing BindTag. * <p>The value can either be a plain value to transform (a hard-coded String * value in a JSP or a JSP expression), or a JSP EL expression to be evaluated * (transforming the result of the expression). * <p>Like all of Spring's JSP tags, this tag is capable of parsing EL expressions * itself, on any JSP version. Note, however, that EL expressions in a JSP 2.0 page * will be evaluated by the JSP container, with the result getting passed in here. * For this reason, the type of this property is Object (accepting any result * object from a pre-evaluated expression) rather than String. */ public void setValue(Object value) { this.value = value; } /** * Set PageContext attribute name under which to expose * a variable that contains the result of the transformation. * @see #setScope * @see javax.servlet.jsp.PageContext#setAttribute */ public void setVar(String var) { this.var = var; } /** * Set the scope to export the variable to. * Default is SCOPE_PAGE ("page"). * @see #setVar * @see org.springframework.web.util.TagUtils#SCOPE_PAGE * @see javax.servlet.jsp.PageContext#setAttribute */ public void setScope(String scope) { this.scope = scope; } protected final int doStartTagInternal() throws JspException { Object resolvedValue = this.value; if (this.value instanceof String) { String strValue = (String) this.value; resolvedValue = ExpressionEvaluationUtils.evaluate("value", strValue, pageContext); } if (resolvedValue != null) { // Find the containing EditorAwareTag (e.g. BindTag), if applicable. EditorAwareTag tag = (EditorAwareTag) TagSupport.findAncestorWithClass(this, EditorAwareTag.class); if (tag == null) { throw new JspException("TransformTag can only be used within EditorAwareTag (e.g. BindTag)"); } // OK, let's obtain the editor... String result = null; PropertyEditor editor = tag.getEditor(); if (editor != null) { // If an editor was found, edit the value. editor.setValue(resolvedValue); result = editor.getAsText(); } else { // Else, just do a toString. result = resolvedValue.toString(); } result = isHtmlEscape() ? HtmlUtils.htmlEscape(result) : result; String resolvedVar = ExpressionEvaluationUtils.evaluateString("var", this.var, pageContext); if (resolvedVar != null) { String resolvedScope = ExpressionEvaluationUtils.evaluateString("scope", this.scope, pageContext); pageContext.setAttribute(resolvedVar, result, TagUtils.getScope(resolvedScope)); } else { try { // Else, just print it out. pageContext.getOut().print(result); } catch (IOException ex) { throw new JspException(ex); } } } return SKIP_BODY; } }