How to access properties that are restricted in EL / JSP

Question

I have this line in one of my JSPs:

<fmt:message key="label.user.request.type.${requestEntry.key.class.simpleName}"/>

Used to work perfectly up until I upgraded Jetty to v9.2.2. Now I guess the JSP library has been updated, which makes java reserved words (like default , class etc illegal identifiers.

The above code comes from rendering a Map , and I use the getClass() getter - which by some sort of magic becomes .class. - which is a reserved word.

I'm kind of stuck - how can I get around this problem? I'd rather not refactor the entire file, since the current implementation is pretty neat and easy to read.

Answer 1

If there ARE ways of making this work, please let me know. I ended up creating a getClazz() getter in the class used as a key in this map, and then just using that instead.

However, I find this workaround a tad bit hacky - would be nice to reference this getter some other way. So if you have another solution, please let me know.