Get slingRequest within a bean in CQ 5.6

Question

Including libs/foundation/global.jsp at the top of my jsp winds up calling <cq:defineObjects />, which winds up instantiating the slingRequest or currentNode variables that I can use within my scriptlets. However, I am creating beans and including them like so

<jsp:useBean id="myBean" class="com.foo.bar.MyBean" />
<jsp:setProperty name="myBean" property="request" value="<%= slingRequest %>" />

and in my bean I have a getter/setter

public SlingHttpServletRequest getRequest() {
    return resource;
}

public void setRequest(SlingHttpServletRequest request) {
    this.resource = resource;
}

Here I'm instantiating the bean and passing in a reference to the current request.

My quesion is, how can I avoid having to pass in this parameter? Is there a way to get a reference to the current request via some sort of static context so that I can set the bean property in the constructor?

Answer 1

There is no way to statically pass the request to newly created bean (and there can't be, as there might be many requests at the same time, so we can't have a shared static variable to store it). You may create a scriptlet:

<% pageContext.setAttribute("myBean", new MyBean(slingRequest)); %>

MyBean property: ${myBean.property}

or get rid of the beans and use one of the frameworks mentioned by Thomas:

• Sling Models,
• Slice,
• NEBA.