[jsr-314-open] f:param in f:ajax

Hi, Yesterday we got an issue in the MyFaces issue tracker saying that the following peace of code should append paramName=paramValue as request parameter to the ajax call (see [1]): <h:inputText> <f:param name="paramName" value="paramValue" /> <f:ajax /> </h:inputText> The reason why the developer thinks this should work is because it also works for h:commandXxx. IMO it is clear why this should work for h:commandXxx: A UICommand always triggers a new request (ajax or normal) and thus it should support adding request parameters via f:param (this fact is also stated in the spec). But a UIInput component isn't supposed to generate a new request (at least not a normal request) and thus should not support f:param. Can anyone confirm this behavior for JSF 2.0 and 2.1 or did I miss something? However, thinking about the fact that f:param was introduced before JSF had any ajax support, it kinda does make sense to adopt it for f:ajax, because now _every_ component can trigger a new (ajax) request and thus should be able to add request parameters. Note that pre JSF 2.0 this was only true for UICommand. Furthermore I looked at the spec javascript documentation of jsf.ajax.request() and found out that there is already a way to add request parameters to the ajax request: The options element supports a "params" parameter: params - object containing parameters to include in the request. Thus it is already possible to do it, but you have to use the native javascript function instead of f:ajax. So maybe the above example should work or maybe also something like this should work: <h:input...> <f:ajax> <f:param name="name1" param="param1" /> </f:ajax> </h:input...> WDYT? Regards, Jakob [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MYFACES-3012 -- Jakob Korherr blog: http://www.jakobk.com twitter: http://twitter.com/jakobkorherr work: http://www.irian.at