Java regular expression, replace slashes

In my ui I had this line:

<f:param name="fullPath" value="#{model.folderObject.folder.fullPath}"/>

So, fullPath contains “\Electronic Project Folders\AJW-148\AMASS-2005-000181-A\CIF Replacement 234-2005X546A\CCA, AMASS CIM”
I needed to replace singe slash with double slashes

FacesContext context = FacesContext.getCurrentInstance();
Map<String, String> params = context.getExternalContext().getRequestParameterMap();
String fullPath = URLDecoder.decode(params.get("fullPath"));
String fullPath2 = fullPath.replaceAll("\\\\", "\\\\" );

Thanks to Jason Lee.

Read query string from backing bean – 2 ways

I needed to read a parameter from query string in JSF backing bean. http://atowus/epf?packageId=17169

Here how it works:

 FacesContext context = FacesContext.getCurrentInstance();
 Map<String, String> params = context.getExternalContext().getRequestParameterMap();
 String pID = params.get("packageId");
 

Now pID should have the value 17169

OR:

In faces-config.xml:
<managed-bean>
 <description>Backing bean for tree example. </description>
 <managed-bean-name>tree</managed-bean-name>
 <managed-bean-class>gov.faa.amc.nas.epf.TreeBean</managed-bean-class>
 <managed-bean-scope>request</managed-bean-scope>
 <managed-property>
<property-name>packageId</property-name>
 <value>#{param.packageId}</value> <!--JSF injects query string value from request parameter -->
 </managed-property>
 </managed-bean>

In TreeBean.java, I have a instance variable and getter and setter

private String packageId;

Caution: Bean scope has to be request otherwise you get a nasty error like this.

javax.faces.FacesException: Problem in renderResponse: Unable to create managed
bean tree. The following problems were found:
- The scope of the object referenced by expression #{param.packageId}, request, is shorter than the
referring managed beans (tree) scope of session note