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Created by Fang on April 16, 2012 13:18:40
Last update: April 16, 2012 13:18:40
Simply call pageContext.setAttribute() to export a variable from within a JSP custom tag:
public class MyCustomVarTag extends TagSupport {
...
The availability of the exported variable can be limited in the TLD:
<tag>
<name>setVar</name>
<tag-class...
The availability scopes are:
Value Availability
NESTED Between the start tag and the end tag.
AT_BEGIN From the start tag until the scope of any enclosing tag. If there’s no enclosing tag, then to the end of the page.
AT_END After the end tag until the scope of any enclosing tag. If there’s no enclosing tag, then to the end of the page.
Created by Fang on April 16, 2012 12:58:35
Last update: April 16, 2012 12:58:35
To implement a JSP custom tag with dynamic attributes (for example, to pass-thru arbitrary attributes not handled by the JSP tag):
Set the dynamic-attributes element to true in the TLD:
<tag>
<name>mark</name>
<tag-class>c...
The tag handler must implement javax.servlet.jsp.tagext.DynamicAttributes :
package com.example.jsp;
import java.io.*;
...
Created by Fang on March 15, 2012 10:24:35
Last update: March 15, 2012 10:24:35
Suppose that I have an email field annotated with:
@NotEmpty(message="Please enter email address")
...
Bean validation will trigger two errors when no email address is entered:
the email field is empty
an empty email field is not a valid email address
Displaying both errors to the user with <form:errors> would be redundant and confusing:
<%@ taglib uri="http://www.springframework.org/tag...
This is how to display the first error only:
<spring:bind path="emailAddress">
<c:if test="$...
Created by Fang on January 28, 2012 13:24:09
Last update: January 28, 2012 13:31:22
This is a simple JSP custom tags library with tag body. Just like the JSF counterpart , it splits a string and repeats the body for each word, i.e., with this markup:
<%@ taglib uri="http://custom.tag.com/demo" prefix...
output:
<html>
<body>
<p>Hello Tigger!</p>
<p>H...
With Maven, this is the directory structure:
./src
./src/main
./src/main/resources
./s...
There are three files to write:
pom.xml :
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"...
src/main/java/tagdemo/IterateTag.java :
package tagdemo;
import java.io.IOException...
src/main/resources/META-INF/demotag.tld :
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DO...
Build with:
mvn clean install
To use it as a dependency in other Maven projects:
<dependency>
<groupId>tag-demo</groupId>
...
Created by Fang on November 10, 2011 13:19:13
Last update: December 01, 2011 19:10:43
You can add custom implicit variables to JSF pages by using a custom EL resolver, in two simple steps: Write an ELResolver class to resolve the variable Add the ELResolver to faces-config.xml Starting from the Maven Hello World example: Add faces API and EL dependencies to pom.xml :
<dependencies> <dependency> <groupId>o... Add a simple greeter class ( src/main/java/com/example/Greeter.java ): package com.example; public class Greeter {... Add our custom EL resolver ( src/main/java/com/example/ELResolver.java ): package com.example; import java.util.Itera... Add the custom EL resolver to src/main/resources/META-INF/faces-config.xml <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <faces-c... Build JAR with mvn package Drop the JAR into WEB-INF/lib of a webapp and test the new EL with: <h:outputText value="#{Greeter.sayHi('Mike')}"/> Fixed: the setValue method used to throw an exception, which is wrong. @Override public void setValue(ELContext ctx, O......
Created by Fang on November 22, 2011 10:40:16
Last update: November 22, 2011 10:40:16
This is an example that uses tag handler, UI component and renderer together to support a custom taglib. The main purpose is to show how these components play together.
The tag renders
<ui:param name="extra" value="el interpreted"/>
...
as
<h3>my:foreach</h3>
<ul class="css class" extra...
These are the files:
The tag handler ( src/main/java/com/example/ForeachTagHandler.java ):
package com.example;
import java.util.Map;
...
The UI component ( src/main/java/com/example/UIForeach.java ):
package com.example;
import java.io.IOExcep...
The renderer ( src/main/java/com/example/ForeachRenderer.java ):
package com.example;
import java.io.IOExcep...
Faces config ( src/main/resources/META-INF/faces-config.xml ):
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<faces-c...
Taglib config ( src/main/resources/META-INF/foreach.taglib.xml ):
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<facelet...
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 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 alfa on May 27, 2011 11:19:29
Last update: May 31, 2011 07:56:26
This is a utility to convert a string value to one of the primitive type values. It is useful in Java reflection code where the value comes in as a string (e.g., from XML parsing), and the type of the value cannot be decided until runtime.
import java.util.*;
import java.lang.reflect.*;...
Note: This method can be extended to convert string to more complex types by writing a converter for the destination type. For example, to convert string to date:
public class DateConverter {
public static ...
Usage:
Date d = (Date) ConvertUtil.convert("10/12/2010", ...
