[jsr-314-open] <h:dataTable> binding vs. ui:repeat

[Martin Marinschek]

Hi Ed,

again very late, I filed:

https://uel.dev.java.net/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=6

on this.

regards,

Martin

On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 10:31 PM, Ed Burns <Ed.Burns at sun.com> wrote:
>>>>>> On Tue, 18 Aug 2009 08:08:31 +0200, Martin Marinschek <mmarinschek at apache.org> said:
>
> MM> Hi Ed,
>>> Which I still don't understand.  Can you please explain explicitly?
>
> MM> I sent a mail to Kin-Man that we can't pass parameters from the
> MM> framework to the method-expression. So, we can now do:
>
> MM> #{bb.action(myparam)}
>
> MM> to call a method with signature:
>
> MM> public String action(String myparam) {}
>
> MM> but we can not do:
>
> MM> #{bb.valueChangeListener(myparam)}
>
> MM> to call a method with signature:
>
> MM> public void valueChangeListener(ValueChangeEvent ev, String myparam) {}
>
> MM> only with signature:
>
> MM> public void valueChangeListener(String myparam) {}
>
> MM> so what we loose is the ValueChangeEvent, which was provided by the
> MM> JSF framework as a parameter to the invoke-call in the
> MM> Method-Expression instance (we will only receive the parsed
> MM> parameters).
>
> Thanks.  Now I understand your request.
>
> MM> I already got mail by Kin-Man - he said this won't be included, we
> MM> are too late.
>
> MM> This effectively means we cannot use the new EL functionality to solve
> MM> the problem that was discussed in this thread (using
> MM> valueChangeListeners in a dataTable), and therefore, even though we
> MM> can get rid of the f:setPropertyActionListener, we would still need an
> MM> f:setPropertyValueChangeListener - a pity.
>
> I agree that the feature you request is indeed valid.  Can you please
> file it in the uel.dev.java.net issue tracker?
>
> Ed
>
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