How to use “map.get(key)” in Thymeleaf – Broadleaf Ecom

Using ${map.get(key)} (where key is a variable) works for me.

${map['key']} only seems to work for String literal keys — if the key you’re looking up is a variable then ${map[key]} doesn’t seem to work.

Accessing Map entries given a list of keys

Here’s a full example, looking up items in a HashMap map given listOfKeys an ordered List of the keys of elements I want to get from the map. Using a separate listOfKeys like this lets me control the order of iteration, and optionally return only a subset of elements from the map:

<ul>
    <li th:each="key: ${listOfKeys}"">
        <span th:text="${key}"></span> = <span th:text="${map.get(key)}"></span>
    </li>
</ul>

Looping through every entry in a Map

If you do not have an ordered list of keys, but just want to loop through every item in the Map, then you can loop directly through the map’s keySet() (But you will have no control of the ordering of keys returned if your map is a HashMap):

<ul>
    <li th:each="key: ${map.keySet()}">
        <span th:text="${key}"></span> = <span th:text="${map.get(key)}"></span>
    </li>
</ul>

This usage can be expressed even more concisely by simply iterating through the entrySet of the map, and accessing each returned entry’s key and value members:

<ul>
    <li th:each="entry: ${map}">
        <span th:text="${entry.key}"></span> = <span th:text="${entry.value}"></span>
    </li>
</ul>

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