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Created by Fang on October 31, 2011 12:54:05
Last update: October 23, 2012 12:31:16
In JSP you output the web application context path with:
${pageContext.request.contextPath}
Facelets are not JSPs, and there's no pageContext . So the above does not work.
But in facelets you can use request directly:
${request.contextPath}
For example, a link to the root URL:
<a href="${request.contextPath}">Home</a>
Servlet request URL:
<h2>#{request.requestURL}</h2>
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 January 04, 2012 11:44:15
Last update: January 04, 2012 11:44:15
With this markup:
<h:outputText value="#{msg.name}:"/>
<h:inputTe...
the validation message looks like this:
j_id1283414979_4c7f5b98:name: size must be between...
Add label attribute to get rid of the ugly field name:
<h:outputText value="#{msg.name}:"/>
<h:inputTe...
Created by Fang on January 04, 2012 11:14:46
Last update: January 04, 2012 11:14:46
Assume that your messages are defined in MessageResources.properties , this is how you load and use the messages:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Stric...
In MessageResources.properties :
pageTitle = JSF Resource Bundle Example
page.he...
Created by Fang on January 04, 2012 09:54:05
Last update: January 04, 2012 09:54:05
There are two ways to validate a form with JSF: jsf validation on the page with <f:validate...> tags (for example: <f:validateLength> , <f:validateRegex> , etc.), or JSR303 bean validation. This note is about how to customize messages for JSR303 bean validation. The validation message is specified in the message attribute for each validation annotation type. The mesage attribute is not a literal string, but a string that is interpolated in various ways. For example, the default validation message for AssertFalse is {javax.validation.constraints.AssertFalse.message} , which is replaced with the corresponding string in ValidationMessages.properties (or ValidationMessages_tr.properties , ValidationMessages_es.properties , depending on the locale). This is the contents of ValidationMessages.properties in the hibernate validator reference implementation:
javax.validation.constraints.AssertFalse.message =... To customize the messages, just provide the new value in...
Created by Fang on November 21, 2011 16:30:56
Last update: December 07, 2011 08:54:32
This is a series of notes on building custom JSF 2.0 facelet taglibs, ordered from the simplest to the less simple. Hopefully it can help you to get started on how to build custom taglibs for JSF. A simple JSF facelets taglib example The simplest taglib I can think of. Using EL expression with a custom tag Make tag attributes dynamic. Mixing custom tag with facelet ui taglibs Discover things you might run into when you get into more details. Which EL context to use? Using the wrong EL context can lead to subtle bugs. JSF facelet taglib backed by a UI component A UIComponent can be a tag handler, without being TagHandler . Using tag handler, UI component and renderer with a JSF facelet...
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 05, 2011 13:04:11
Last update: December 05, 2011 13:04:11
Facelet requires strict XML syntax, so unmatched tags (start with no end, etc) generate errors. This is a trick to workaround that. The following code generates a row for every three items and for each row assigns a row id:
<!-- using ui:repeat -->
<ui:repeat var="name" ...
Created by Fang on December 05, 2011 12:41:21
Last update: December 05, 2011 12:41:21
Use the varStatus.first property and EL to assign a different CSS class for the first element:
<ui:repeat var="name" varStatus="status" value="#{...
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='...
