How to add property through managed-beans.xml

Question

Hi,
I am trying to take a hard coded value property from managed-beans.xml file. I tried using :
<managed-property>
<property-name> filename </property-name>
<value> xx </value>
I called getProperty("filename"); from one of my bean classes and it did not recognise it.
I am not sure how to do this one. any help will be appreciated.
Thanks

Answer 1

I'm not sure what getProperty method you are referring to in your original posting. Is this a method on your managed bean class?
Managed beans are implemented as regular JavaBeans so you will need to add a setFilename(String) and getFilename() method to your backing bean class to get this to work correctly. The setter method will get called automatically when the bean is first instantiated, either by accessing it from a JSP value-binding expression as a result of calling context.getApplication().getVariableResolver().resolve(context, beanName) where context is an instance of FacesContext and beanName the name of the managed bean as specified in faces-config.xml. You can then use the getter method to access the property value from within your application code.
Alternatively, if you don't want to implement a JavaBean class, you can specify java.lang.HashMap as the managed bean class and use myBean.get("filename") to access the property instead.
Hope this helps.
-- Keith