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

[Alaxander Smirnov]

On 09/04/2009 12:56 PM, Andy Schwartz wrote:
> 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.
RichFaces uses the same approach too. I believe that iteration 
components should be complete rewritten in JSF 2.1 using such 
architecture. Does Trinidad tree comonent use the same base class ?
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>
> Andy
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