How to expose HttpServletRequest to custom tag? 1

[manarth]

My custom tax extends [tt]javax.servlet.jsp.tagext.TagSupport[/tt].

My tag deals with the HTTP Request URIs. This is normally exposed in: [tt]HttpServletRequest.getServletPath[/tt].

However, the TagSupport object only exposes ServletRequest, not HttpServletRequest.

Any ideas?

<marc>
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[mingus]

Cast it:


import javax.servlet.jsp.*;
import javax.servlet.jsp.tagext.*;
import javax.servlet.http.*;

public class X extends BodyTagSupport {


public int doStartTag() throws JspException
{
HttpServletRequest request = (HttpServletRequest)pageContext.getRequest();
....

}

 

[manarth]

very nice - thank you!

works a charm

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