Re: Alternatives to <req:isUserInRole>

Quoting Antonio Petrelli <[email protected]>:

> 2007/6/8, Kris Schneider <[email protected]>:
> >
> > > JSP 2.0, Servlet 2.4, why?
> >
> > Um, all the better to help you, why else? ;-)
> 
> 
> 
> Yes, that's obvious, thanks :-)
> 
> 
> As of JSP 2.0, you can create EL functions that map to public static Java
> > methods. If you'd been using an older version of JSP, this option wouldn't
> > be
> > available. If you're not familiar with how to get that set up, post back
> > and
> > I'll provide more details.
> 
> 
> 
> But "HttpServletRequest.isUserInRole" is not static...

True, but I don't think I implied that it was. You would write your own utility
method that would be exposed as an EL function:

public class Functions {
  public static boolean isUserInRole(HttpServletRequest req, String role) {
    return req.isUserInRole(role);
  }
}

> Antonio

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