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

[Andy Schwartz]

Ed Burns wrote:
>>>>>> On Fri, 07 Aug 2009 08:31:51 +0200, Martin Marinschek <mmarinschek at apache.org> said:
>>>>>>             
>
> MM> Hi Lincoln,
>   
>>> Unless I'm mistaken, ui:repeat is not a component and therefore cannot
>>> be bound to a backing bean,
>>>       
>
> MM> I thought it was - and just checked, it derives from UIComponentBase.
> MM> Does the binding attribute not work for you?
>
> Yes, but it's implementation specific and not in the
> javax.faces.component package.
>
>   

Ah, interesting.  In Trinidad we have a common base class for components 
that iterate over a collection:

http://myfaces.apache.org/trinidad/trinidad-api/apidocs/org/apache/myfaces/trinidad/component/UIXCollection.html

This is used as the base for both UIXIterator (Trinidad equivalent of 
ui:repeat) and UIXTable (Trinidad equivalent for UIData).  Perhaps for 
2.1 we should consider surfacing a similar base class/contract, along 
with a public UIRepeat component.


Andy