Load a WCMUsePojo class inside of a JSP template

[scottfinkelstein]

Hi,

I'm currently rewriting a Sightly template as JSP (I usually prefer using Sightly, but I need JSP for this use case).

In our Sightly template, we are loading in a model class that inherits from WCMUsePojo:

<sly data-sly-use.search="edu.nyu.aemnyu.core.components.content.news.Search" data-sly-unwrap>

When I try mimicking this in the JSP template:

Search search = resource.adaptTo(Search.class);

The "activate()" method doesn't seem to get invoked, which tells me I'm doing something wrong.

Am I missing a better way to handle this in JSP? I'm hoping to avoid re-writing the Search class referenced above  since its used elsewhere.

Thank you in advance,

Scott

[arunpatidar]

Hi @scottfinkelstein 
I am not sure if you can use WCMUsePojo in the JSP but you can use sling model in JSP
https://sling.apache.org/documentation/bundles/models.html#client-code-1 

[Jörg_Hoh · Accepted solution]

WcmUsePojo is a bit restricted in its usability, and for that reason the Sling Models have been implemented. You might want to convert pojo to a Sling Model, in most cases it's straight forward.

[scottfinkelstein]

Thank you both! I converted the WCMUsePojo class to a Sling Model, and that worked within my JSP file. It also worked well in that I was able to use it in our Sightly template, thereby retiring the WCMUsePojo class.

Thanks again!

Scott

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