Thanx Gary for your help.
Yah "bypass" or "clayignore" block will be useful feature. Thanx for taking
the initiative.
About your other solution, I will try it tonite and let you know how it
goes.
On 9/23/05, Gary VanMatre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >Gary thanks for ur reply.
> >
> >The problem is I want LoginForm action to be "j_acegi_security_check"
> ><form action="j_acegi_security_check" method="POST">
> ></form>
> >
> >The only I could make it render this way is my bypassing clay. But for my
> >logout button,
> ><input type="submit" value=logout jsfid=mybutton /> I need to go thru
> Clay
> >:(
>
> I like your idea about creating a "bypass" or "clayIgnore" block. It would
> be a new feature. I'll see if I can get that done.
>
> I can think of a way to handle today as a compromise. You could load a
> document into a jsf outputText component using the shape validator. Maybe
> something like this:
>
> -- html
> <!-- inserting a vanilla form here -->
> <span jsfid="clayInclude" url="/login.htm" managedBeanName="mybean"
> shapeValidator="#{managed-bean-name.includeLoginForm}" />
>
>
> -- xml def (metadata attributes that are not component properties end up
> in the attributes map)
> <component jsfid="clayInclude" extends="clay">
> <attributes>
> <set name="url" />
> </attributes>
> </component>
>
>
> -- managed bean
> mybean:
>
> public void includeLoginForm(FacesContext context, UIComponent clay,
> Object displayElement) {
>
> ComponentBea root = (ComponentBean) displayElement;
>
> //make the root a verbatim component
> root.setComponentType("javax.faces.HtmlOutputText");
>
> String url = (String) clay.getAttributes().get("url");
>
>
> //use the external context to load a file into a buffer
> StringBuffer buff = new StringBuffer();
> InputStream in = context.getExternalContext().getResourceAsStream(url);
> .... read file into buffer ...
>
> //include the payload as a value attribute
> AttributeBean attr = new AttributeBean();
> attr.setName("value");
> attr.setValue(buff.toString());
> root.addAttribute(attr);
>
> //leave the html special chars
> attr = new AttributeBean();
> attr.setName("escape");
> attr.setValue(Boolean.FALSE.toString());
> root.addAttribute(attr);
>
> //don't cache server side state for the monster
> attr = new AttributeBean();
> attr.setName("isTransient");
> attr.setValue(Boolean.TRUE.toString());
> root.addAttribute(attr);
> }
>
>
> I think that something simple like this might be good in the Clay
> baseline.
>
> Gary
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