Hello again,
Sorry if I'm getting to be a pest, but I really like Clay and want to
understand it better. So, here are my questions of the day:
Can you (or how do you) use resource bundles in the clay config files?
I'm trying to get to a place where I can use the symbol replacement
features of Clay like in the use-cases, specifically the templating.
So, I'd have a component similar to the basePage component with a
layout. Then in the layout I'd use @title for the page title. But how
can I use a resource bundle to specify the title? Additionally, if I
define label components in the clay config files, how would I use values
from resource bundles for them? And, if I use resource bundles in the
clay configs, is that just going to use the default or system locale, or
will it use the users session locale?
I was trying to get my headers and footers put together yesterday and
ran into a problem doing images. My first impulse was to use an <img>
tag with a jsfid="graphicImage" attribute. But that didn't work as
expected. Since this is a header that will be used in files that could
be in any directory I can't really use relative paths because there is
no way to know what the current working directory is so I need to
specify the full path. Would the best way to do this be something like
<img src="[EMAIL PROTECTED]/mylogo.gif" /> and define @images to be
"#{facesContext.externalContext.request.contextPath}/images"
in the clay-config.xml? Similarly, what's the best way to include
stylesheets? Before I discovered the power of symbols I used <link
rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"
href="#{facesContext.externalContext.request.contextPath}/styles/default.css"
/>, which is
a bit of a mess. So, would it be better to define a @styles symbol?
In the use-cases, dataTables are built strictly using components in the
clay config files. Is this the only way to construct them? I was
almost hoping for something more like:
<table jsfid="dataTable" value="[EMAIL PROTECTED]" var="e">
<tr>
<td jsfid="column">
#{e.value1}
</td>
<td jsfid="column">
#{e.value2}
</td>
</tr>
</table>
or something similar. Is that possible?
One last question while I'm on the subject. One thing that I'd like to
be able to do with dataTables is have a single value be used to create
more than one row. So, for instance, we might have a list of bugs. For
each bug we may want 2 rows, the first being the short description, who
submitted it and when and then the second row being a more detailed
comment. The second row could be shown/hidden by the user with DHTML so
they could get a better idea of what is the issue is. I did this with
the myfaces dataList component in JSP for a report once, manually
building the table elements with a bunch of verbatims and such. Would I
have to do the same with Clay (minus the verbatims, of course)? How
would I do that? If I tried to do it in the clay-config.xml I would
need to do something like:
<component jsfid="report" extends="dataList">
<attributes>
<set name="value" value="[EMAIL PROTECTED]" />
<set name="var" value="e" />
</attributes>
<element renderId="0" jsfid="outputText">
<attributes>
<set name="value" value="<tr>" />
</attributes>
</element>
<element renderId="1" jsfid="outputText">
<attributes>
<set name="value" value="<td>" />
</attributes>
</element>
<element renderId="2" jsfid="outputText">
<attributes>
<set name="value" value="#{e.value1}" />
</attributes>
</element>
<element renderId="3" jsfid="outputText">
<attributes>
<set name="value" value="</td>" />
</attributes>
</element>
<element renderId="4" jsfid="outputText">
<attributes>
<set name="value" value="</tr>" />
</attributes>
</element>
<element renderId="5" jsfid="outputText">
<attributes>
<set name="value" value="<tr>" />
</attributes>
</element>
<element renderId="6" jsfid="outputText">
<attributes>
<set name="value" value="<td colspan=2>" />
</attributes>
</element>
....
</component>
There has got to be a better way. Any ideas?
Thanks,
Rich
PS Sorry for the length of the message, but I'm really excited about
Clay and the possibilities it gives me and my web designers.
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