How do you get the first element in a collection in JSTL/EL?

Question

My container contains multiple widgets.

I'm looping over them and the widgetcode variable is set with the value of the last widget in the loop.

But what I really want is the first widget in the collection.

How do I get this without looping?

<c:choose>
    <c:when test="${fn:length(container.widgets) > 0}">
        <c:forEach items="${container.widgets}" var="widgetId" varStatus="status">
            <c:set var="widgetcode" value="/widget/<c:out value="${widgetId}"/>"/>
        </c:forEach>
    </c:when>
    <c:otherwise>
        <c:set var="widgetcode" value="/widget/000"/>
    </c:otherwise>
</c:choose>

Solution

<c:set var="widgetcode" value="${container.widgets[0]}"/>

Comments

[RustyTheBoyRobot]

Note: this only works for indexed collections. Maps and Sets can't use this syntax. stackoverflow.com/q/1000876/557481