On Mon, 3 Apr 2006 22:44:04 -0700 "Craig McClanahan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 4/2/06, Bjørn T Johansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Does there exist something similar to <nested:iterate> tag in myfaces/jsf? > > Or should one use a datatable with just one row and and one column and > > populate this cell with html > > components? Or is there another way? > > > IIRC, the ADF Faces library has a component that is analogous to the JSTL > <c:forEach> tag, which could be used for this type of thing (but avoids the > JSP/JSF interoperability problems in JSF 1.0/1.1 that are cured in JSF 1.2). > > Another approach would be to create a customized renderer for the UIData > component that encapsulates iteration for the standard table component. The > JSF RI download[1], available under a CDDL license, includes some demo > components and renderers ... one of which is a "Repeater" that is a renderer > designed to be subclassed and specialized ... you override a protected > method to do whatever you want at the beginning and end of each row, as well > as the beginning and end of each column. The default implementation behaves > like the standard renderer (it emits <tr> around each row and <td> around > each column), but this can be easily customized for your particular use > case. > > The advantage of this approach is you get to focus on tweaking just the > markup, without having to get inside all the complexity of the UIData > component itself. Trust me, you'll be *much* happier not to have to do that > :-). > > Regards, > > > > BTJ > > > Craig > > [1] https://javaserverfaces.dev.java.net/ I.e. using just one cell in a datatable is not a solution.... I'll have a look at that "Repeater" then... Thx... :) BTJ
