sounds good!
+1
--Manfred
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 2:12 PM, Simon Kitching <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I've always hated the "forceId" feature of tomahawk for two reasons:
> (a) it makes it dangerous to compose pages using facelets templating,
> jsp:include or similar
> (b) it only works for tomahawk components
>
> There is nothing that can be done about (a); any "flattening" of the id
> is dangerous. But sometimes it is just necessary.
>
> It is possible to do something about (b) though. JSF1.2 adds method
> UIComponentBase.getContainerClientId. A trivial component can therefore
> be written that prevents any prefix being applied to the ids of its
> child components:
>
> <f:subview id="mysubview1">
> <h:commandButton id="btn1" ../> # clientId = "mysubview1:btn1"
>
> <s:globalId id="whatever">
> <h:commandButton id="btn2" .../> # clientId="btn2"
> <h:graphicImage id="img1" ../> # clientId="img1"
> </s:globalId>
> </f:subview>
>
> The implementation is trivial:
>
> public class GlobalId extends UIComponentBase implements NamingContainer
> {
> private final static String COMPONENT_FAMILY = "oamc.GlobalId";
>
> public String getFamily()
> {
> return COMPONENT_FAMILY;
> }
>
> public String getContainerClientId(FacesContext facesContext)
> {
> return null;
> }
> }
>
> Note that this component would only work for JSF1.2 or later (though it
> will compile fine with JSF1.1).
>
> Would this be useful or not?
>
> Regards,
> Simon
>
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