Passing a String object from Application.start() into a Controller

Question

This is probably really obvious to most reading this question, but I'm perplexed on something.
I'm working on a JavaFX application that is embedded on a web page and I've specified a couple of values in the "params" of the dtjava.embed() function. I can access those values through the Application.getParameters() call in start(). Great.
The challenge now is that I'm starting to use an FXML file and I want to pass the String values to the Controller that is managing the FXML page.
The closest I think I've come so far is to possibly use:
FXMLLoader fxmlLoader = new FXMLLoader();
URL location = getClass().getResource("Sample.fxml");
fxmlLoader.getNamespace().put("UserId", UserId);
fxmlLoader.getNamespace().put("OrgId", OrgId);
Parent root = (Parent) fxmlLoader.load(location.openStream());Even with this, I'm not sure how to access the values inside the controller object.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
~~ Michael
Edited by: Michael_M on Jan 24, 2012 12:22 PM
Edited by: Michael_M on Jan 24, 2012 12:22 PM
Edited by: Michael_M on Jan 24, 2012 12:22 PM

Answer 1

I solved it by getting the controller from the loader after loading the FXML and then provide the controller with the relevant data.
You can get the controller if you don't use the static load methods. In case anyone else has this question, here's what I did:
FXMLLoader fxmlLoader = new FXMLLoader();
URL location = getClass().getResource("Sample.fxml");
fxmlLoader.getNamespace().put("UserId", UserId);
fxmlLoader.getNamespace().put("OrgId", OrgId);
Parent root = (Parent) fxmlLoader.load(location.openStream());
Sample s = (Sample) fxmlLoader.getController();
s.UserId = UserId;
s.OrgId = OrgId;