HTL Global Objects

Without having to specify anything, HTL provides access to all objects that were commonly available in JSP after including global.jsp. These objects are in addition to any that may be introduced through the Use-API.

Enumerable Objects

These objects provide convenient access to commonly used information. Their content can be accessed with the dot notation, and they can be iterated-through using data-sly-list or data-sly-repeat.

Variable Name	Description
`properties`	List of properties of the current Resource. Backed by org.apache.sling.api.resource.ValueMap
`pageProperties`	List of page properties of the current Page. Backed by org.apache.sling.api.resource.ValueMap
`inheritedPageProperties`	List of inherited page properties of the current Page. Backed by org.apache.sling.api.resource.ValueMap

Java-backed Objects

Each of the following objects is backed by the corresponding Java object.

The most useful variables in the table below are highlighted in bold.

Variable Name	Description
`component`	`com.day.cq.wcm.api.components.Component`
`componentContext`	`com.day.cq.wcm.api.components.ComponentContext`
`currentDesign`	`com.day.cq.wcm.api.designer.Design`
`currentNode`	`javax.jcr.Node`
`currentPage`	`com.day.cq.wcm.api.Page`
`currentSession`	`javax.servlet.http.HttpSession`
`currentStyle`	`com.day.cq.wcm.api.designer.Style`
`designer`	`com.day.cq.wcm.api.designer.Designer`
`editContext`	`com.day.cq.wcm.api.components.EditContext`
`log`	`org.slf4j.Logger`
`out`	`java.io.PrintWriter`
`pageManager`	`com.day.cq.wcm.api.PageManager`
`reader`	`java.io.BufferedReader`
`request`	`org.apache.sling.api.SlingHttpServletRequest`
`resolver`	`org.apache.sling.api.resource.ResourceResolver`
`resource`	`org.apache.sling.api.resource.Resource`
`resourceDesign`	`com.day.cq.wcm.api.designer.Design`
`resourcePage`	`com.day.cq.wcm.api.Page`
`response`	`org.apache.sling.api.SlingHttpServletResponse`
`sling`	`org.apache.sling.api.scripting.SlingScriptHelper`
`slyWcmHelper`	`com.adobe.cq.sightly.WCMScriptHelper`
`wcmmode`	`com.adobe.cq.sightly.SightlyWCMMode`
`xssAPI`	`com.adobe.granite.xss.XSSAPI`