First, please let me know if there is a better place to ask JSF Dev related questions.

Question for you all: I could use some help.

I'm testing my listener changes with the new EL2 (and also Seam EL just in case)-- I wanted to make sure that parameters can be passed through the EL action MethodExpression.

It seems as though parameters work fine in general, but if the parameter is cc.attrs.* --- EL resolves the param values to null.

So:
#{myObject} -- works if in scope, as it should
#{cc.attrs.myObject} -- null, even though it's passed in from #{myObject} as an attribute.

UICommand components seem to have no trouble with resolving cc.attrs.*, though.

Any thoughts? I've attached the modified source files in case anyone wants to take a look. I'm not sure if this is a larger problem, or if I've just missed something.

Thanks,
Lincoln

On Fri, 2009-09-04 at 15:56 -0400, Andy Schwartz wrote:

Ed Burns wrote:
>>>>>> On Fri, 07 Aug 2009 08:31:51 +0200, Martin Marinschek <mmarinschek@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

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Lincoln Baxter, III
Co-Founder of OcpSoft
Author of PrettyFaces URL Rewriting for JSF