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

[Lincoln Baxter, III]

This gets my vote for how I'd like to see this handled in 2.1... if we
agree, shall we put in an enhancement for 2.1?

+1

Nice thinking, Andy.

Anyone else?

--Lincoln

On Tue, 2009-09-08 at 17:28 -0400, Dan Allen wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 2:46 PM, Andy Schwartz
> <andy.schwartz at oracle.com> wrote:
> 
>         Finally read through this thread.
>         
> 
> I'm finally returning to it ;) It's been a good volley.
> 
> 
>         
>         An alternative that I believe we could implement in the JSF
>         layer without any changes to the EL spec would be to provdie
>         access to an implicit "event" object during event delivery.
>          The page author would specify:
>         
>         
>                 #{bb.valueChangeListener(event, myparam)}
>         
>         
>         
>         Where bb.valueChangeListener is bound to:
>         
>         
>         
>         
>         
>                 public void valueChangeListener(ValueChangeEvent ev,
>                 String myparam) {}
>         
>         
>         
>         
>         And the "event" implicit object is set up by JSF to point to
>         the ValueChangeEvent (or more generally, to whatever
>         FacesEvent we happen to be delivering) just prior to invoking
>         any listeners.
>         
> 
> Brilliant. This nicely parallels JavaScript's implicit this and event
> variable and aligns nicely with the implicit variables we have added
> for composite components (developers will be used to it).
> 
> -Dan
> 
> 
> 
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> 
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Lincoln Baxter, III
Co-Founder of OcpSoft
Author of PrettyFaces URL Rewriting for JSF


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