[richfaces-issues] [JBoss JIRA] Created: (RF-7464) rich:verbatim tag for serlvet-like capability within Richfaces

[Greg Zoller (JIRA)]

rich:verbatim tag for serlvet-like capability within Richfaces
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                 Key: RF-7464
                 URL: https://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/RF-7464
             Project: RichFaces
          Issue Type: Feature Request
          Components: component-misc
    Affects Versions: 3.3.2.CR1
         Environment: All environments
            Reporter: Greg Zoller
             Fix For: 3.3.1


Have you ever needed a servlet-like ability to inject some server-generated HTML directly into the DOM but still want to be within the Richfaces environment?  Sure you can use JSF's <f:verbatim> tag but...this tag (at least in my JSF implementation) has some undesirable caching with this tag that makes rerendering come from the cache--not good if your backing server-side data changed!

The proposed feature is the <rich:verbatim> tag.  This works within Richface's environment (so rerendering etc. works just fine) and allows you to insert any server-generated HTML code into the DOM.

Why would you want to do this?  Sometimes you just need to bypass JSF, for example for performance reasons.  JSF is particularly performance-challenged when rendering very large tables, as I outlined here:  http://seamframework.org/Community/LargeTablePerformance2IgnoreOtherPost

Using <rich:verbatim> gets around this limitation nicely.  As an added advantage, since Richfaces is well-integrated w/Seam your server-side code has full access to Seam's contexts, which a true servlet would not.

I've got a patch to the 3.3.1.GA source that implements this tag, which I will attach to this ticket if JIRA will let me.

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