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Created by Fang on December 06, 2011 19:03:25
Last update: December 07, 2011 08:54:11
Our custom tag, as implemented in the previous note , is broken when a template is used.
Create a template file ( home-template.xhtml ):
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Stric...
and a test page that uses it ( home.xhtml ):
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<ui:comp...
Then request the page with URL: http://localhost:8080/facelet-demo/home.jsf?name=Jack .
You'll find that our hello tag works inside ui:repeat but fails to get the value defined by ui:param ! What's the problem? Our hello tag implementation evaluated the EL with the wrong EL context!
This is the corrected implementation:
package com.example;
import java.io.IOExcep...
Created by Fang on December 03, 2011 12:31:20
Last update: December 03, 2011 12:33:23
The <h:outputText> tag generates different output for body text and value attribute. I tested the following with Apache MyFaces 2.1.3:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Stric...
With value attribute, the output was:
<table border='1' cellspacing='0' cellpadding='4'>...
With text in body, the output was (i.e., the text was escaped despite escape="false" ):
<table border='1' cellspacing='0' cellpadding='...
Created by Fang on November 21, 2011 15:57:49
Last update: November 22, 2011 09:51:26
The improved custom taglib works with existing facelet ui taglibs. For example:
<ui:param name="theName" value="John"/> <my:hel... produces the expected output. However, a problem exists with the ui:repeat tag: <h3>With ui:repeat</h3> <ui:repeat var="theName... When tested with a URL like: http://localhost:8080/facelet-demo/?name=Zack&name... the raw EL prints out the correct names, but my custom tag substitutes empty string for theName2 ! In theory, the response is rendered in the Render Response phase, way after the Apply Request Values phase, actual values should be available to EL. The answer to this anomaly turned out to be very deep ! Yes, right there in the code! I would consider this a bug in facelets implementation, but the JSF spec did not tell what the expected behavior should be. In my custom...
Created by Fang on November 14, 2011 20:50:51
Last update: November 22, 2011 09:06:10
This facelet fragment will never print anything:
<ui:repeat var="person" value="#{myBean.theJTeam}"... because the test condition always returns false, even though the person var is not null. The same happens even when I define another variable with ui:param : <ui:repeat var="person" value="#{myBean.theJTeam}"... What's happening? The c:if test condition is evaluated before the ui:repeat tag had a chance to set the value! Both facelet ui tags and JSTL c tags are evaluated at the Render Response phase of the JSF lifecycle. But within the Render Response cycle, there are two sub-phases (so to speak): the first builds the UI element tree, the second renders the UI tree. The JSTL c:if tag is evaluated when the tree is built, but the facelet ui:repeat tag is evaluated when the UI...
Created by Fang on November 08, 2011 20:55:00
Last update: November 21, 2011 18:19:44
In the simple taglib example , I used a tag handler class to implement a taglib. This is an example to implement a taglib with a UI component. The purpose is to use a custom tag to split a string and print each part in a separate paragraph, i.e., print
<p>john</p> <p>steve</p> <p>mike</p> with custom tag <my:foreach> : <my:foreach var="who" value="john steve mike"> ... These are the files: pom.xml <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"... src/main/java/com/example/UIForeash.java : package com.example; import java.io.IOExcep... src/main/resources/META-INF/faces-config.xml : <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <faces-c... src/main/resources/META-INF/foreach.taglib.xml : <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <facelet... How to use: Put the JAR file generated by the above project in the WEB-INF/lib folder of the web app. If the web app is a Maven project, just add the taglib project as a dependency:...
Created by Fang on November 21, 2011 13:49:11
Last update: November 21, 2011 13:49:11
In the test for the simple taglib example , I used a literal string for the name attribute:
<my:hello name="Jack"/> What happens if the name attribute contains EL expresson? For example: <my:hello name="#{param['name']}"/> If EL works, the tag should take the value of the " name " request parameter and print it out. But the tag as implemented in the simple taglib example prints the literal string: Hello #{param['name']}! I am FaceletTag. In order to make a tag to recognize EL, we have to use TagAttribute.getValue(FaceletContext ctx) instead of TagAttribute.getValue() . The latter returns the literal value of the attribute. The HelloTagHandler should be changed to: package com.example; import java.io.IOExcep... Rebuild the taglib and test with a URL like this: http://localhost:8080/facelet-test/?name=Jack The tag will print:...
Created by freyo on April 18, 2011 15:08:21
Last update: April 18, 2011 15:12:20
Generate android project
$ ~/android-sdk-linux_86/tools/android create proj...
Create XML file res/xml/books.xml :
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<catalog>
<book id=...
Edit layout ( res/layout/main.xml ):
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<Lin...
Edit code ( src/com/android/xmlres/XMLResource.java ):
package com.android.xmlres;
import java.io....
Change activity label from app_name to booklist ( AndroidManifest.xml ):
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<manifes...
Add value for string resource ( res/values/string.xml ):
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<resourc...
Deploy and test:
ant install
Created by James on January 10, 2011 11:10:32
Last update: January 10, 2011 11:11:00
Following is the code snippet to embed a Flash swf file in a web page. The OBJECT tag is for IE, while the EMBED tag works for Firefox.
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>Embed flash video in ...
Created by Fang on August 24, 2010 18:44:24
Last update: August 24, 2010 18:44:24
The tags XML transform tags apply XSLT to XML documents. The XML document may be specified as the doc attribute or enclosed as the body of the <x:transform> tag. Optional <x:param> tags may be used to specify parameters for the XSLT. <x:transform> Syntax:
<x:transform doc="XMLDocument" xslt="XSLTStyle... or, include the XML document in the body: <x:transform xslt="XSLTStylesheet" [docSystem... Attributes: Name Dynamic? Type Description doc true String , Reader , javax.xml.transform.Source , org.w3c.dom.Document , or object exported by <x:parse> , <x:set> . Source XML document to be transformed. (If exported by <x:set> , it must correspond to a well-formed XML document, not a partial document.) xslt true String , Reader or javax.xml.transform.Source Transformation stylesheet as a String , Reader , or Source object. docSystemId true...
Created by Fang on August 23, 2010 22:55:58
Last update: August 24, 2010 15:45:04
The tags XML flow control tags are exactly the same as their Core flow control equivalents, except that the test condition with a boolean EL expression is replaced by the select condition with an XPath expression. In the case of the forEach tag, the items attribute is replaced with the select attribute. In a test condition, the XPath expression is evaluated to a boolean value by the rules of the XPath boolean() function, which converts its argument to a boolean as follows: a number is true if and only if it is neither positive or negative zero nor NaN. a node-set is true if and only if it is non-empty. a string is true if and only if its length is non-zero. an object of...