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The new variable feature for a menu item is great!
Changing the parseString method to retrieve variables
that are not strings would be even better. My specific
example is a menu item that loads an object based on
an ID session attribute. The id attribute is a Long and
thus causes an ClassCastException. I've created a
string representation of this as a workaround, but would
love to see a small change...

Instead of this:

private StringBuffer parseString(String str,
HttpServletRequest request) {
//...
String value = (String) pageContext.findAttribute
(variable);
//...
}

Consider:

private StringBuffer parseString(String str,
HttpServletRequest request) {
//...
String value = String.valueOf(pageContext.findAttribute
(variable));
//...
}

submitted by jonwilmoth@yahoo.com