Re: how to call a setProperty(x) method in managed bean without form action and within tag

[Andreas Niemeyer <an...@gutzmann.com>]

Hi Simon,

thank you for the conceptional explanation, you are right.

I'm just relative new to JSF, therefore it's important to understand 
what you mentioned.

Regards,
Andreas


Simon Kitching schrieb:
> I think the answer is: don't do that.
> 
> The view layer is about presenting information. Having it poking values
> into your backing beans as a side-effect feels very wrong to me.
> 
> The ui:repeat tag sets up a variable for you (you call it "orga"); your
> inner loop should be just accessing properties of whatever elements the
> outer loop is iterating over.
> 
> You might find that you need to create "presentation-oriented" wrapper
> objects for your model objects and iterate over those rather than
> iterating over your model objects directly, ie the "value" property of
> the outer loop might point at a list of objects that hold related model
> objects but are not actually model objects themselves. This is quite a
> common thing to do.
> 
> Regards,
> Simon
> 
> On Thu, 2008-10-23 at 22:10 +0200, Andreas Niemeyer wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Maybe this subject does better desribe what I need.
>>
>> How do I copy a bean attribute from a <repeat> tag iteration for using 
>> in the nested iteration by calling a setAttribute(Object 
>> copied_attribute) operation? How would it work, which tag could be helpful?
>>
>> Thank you for help! I havn't found the solution yet...
>>
>> Regards,
>> Andreas
>>
>>
>> Andreas Niemeyer schrieb:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I would like to inject a object from a <ui:repeat> iterationinto a 
>>> setter method of the bean for a nested second iteration.
>>>
>>> The nested iteration depends on the previous object.
>>>
>>>
>>> <ui:repeat value="${userinfo.userorganisations}" var="orga">
>>>  <tr><td>organisation: </td><td>#{orga.name}</td></tr>
>>>     
>>> <!-- ???
>>>  ${userinfo.organizationobject}=${orga}
>>> -->
>>>
>>>   <ui:repeat value="${userinfo.userorganisationroles}" var="role">
>>>    <tr><td>organisation role:    </td><td>#{role}</td></tr>
>>>   </ui:repeat>
>>> </ui:repeat>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I read something about the setPropertyActionListener
>>>
>>> <f:setPropertyActionListener value="#{beanx.a}" target="#{beanY.b}"/>
>>> used in the <h:commandLink>.
>>>
>>>
>>> This is nearly what I need but for the iteration construct without an 
>>> action.
>>>
>>>
>>> MTIA!
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Andreas
>>>
>>>
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