Happy Day! I found out what my problem was. Thanks to open source, Sean, Heath, Matthias, Craig, and everyone.
I was studying UIData today and found that in the processColumnChildren method it only processes the children that are instances of UIColumn. Well my row was an instance of UIComponentBase. Once I switched it to UIColumn it solved the problem. I still have more testing to do on my components to see if they fully work, but this problem is fixed. (What I will end up with is 5 components that implement table, thead, th/td, tbody, and tr. As you know dataTable doesn't have the flexibility of what you can do with the html tags.) My question that I'm going to post on the Sun forum is, why does UIData only process UIColumn tags. It kind of makes it hard to extend and use for other purposes. I don't know if this is in the spec or not. I just don't understand why they would put this restriction on it. Thanks again all for the help and all of the good work. Ray --- Ray Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks Sean. I guess I did misunderstand your > point. > I have looked at the source for dataTable a little > and > did find it usefull for fixing a different problem > that I was having. I'll dig in to it more to see if > I > can come up with something. > > It's a shame that they didn't make the dataTable > more > flexible to begin with. > > I'll keep trying. I'm not giving up on myFaces and > JSF. > > Thanks, > Ray > > --- Sean Schofield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I think you misunderstood. We're not suggesting > > that you have to use > > <h:dataTable>. You're free to use your own custom > > component if > > dataTable is not doing it for you. > > > > The suggestion is that you look at how h:dataTable > > is implemented in > > the MyFaces code. There are basic concepts in > there > > that you can use > > for your own custom coponent. > > > > The main thing is that in dataTable, you iterrate > > over the data, not > > the rows. The rows get added by the component's > > renderer. In the JSP > > you just say what goes in the columns and the rows > > will be generated > > as the data is being iterrated over. > > > > I'm relatively new to JSF so I can't give you the > > specifics but I did > > learn a little about it when I was implementing > > forceId so that it > > could work on components contained in tables, etc. > > > > Just check out the source code and follow along. > It > > will be a good > > exercise in understanding some of the more > > complicated > > behind-the-scenes aspects of JSF. No need to > panic > > and drop JSF ;-) > > You will definitely be able to do what you need > with > > what is > > available. > > > > > > sean > > > > On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 12:08:46 -0800 (PST), Ray > Clark > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Thanks for your response. > > > > > > I don't think that I can use h:dataTable for my > > > situation. We have pages that have JSTL ifs > > around > > > the rows so that the rows only show up sometimes > > based > > > on the data in the list. For instance, if I > want > > an > > > <hr> tag when a control break occurs. I didn't > > want > > > to put smarts in the renderer to check the data > in > > the > > > list that was specified. So if I could get the > > row > > > tag to work then I could use the standard > rendered > > > attribute on the row for this. That makes the > > > component generic and simple, and yet makes the > > custom > > > tags powerful enough to produce any type of > table > > that > > > needs to be generated. > > > > > > In addition to the rows only being rendered > > sometimes, > > > what about multi line column headings? I > couldn't > > get > > > that to work with the h:dataTable because the > > facet > > > tag didn't seem to want to render the second > tag. > > > > > > Not to mention that the dataTable tag doesn't > > support > > > rowspan and colspan which I need to emulate the > > tables > > > that we produce at work. > > > > > > So I'd like to get the row tag to work if I can. > > > If I > > > can't find a way around this then JSF is out for > > us. > > > > > > I can't believe that there isn't a way to do > this > > > somehow. > > > > > > Thanks for your thoughts. > > > > > > Ray > > > > > > --- Martin Marinschek > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > wrote: > > > > > > > that is exactly the problem - use the specific > > JSF > > > > iterator tags > > > > (specification: h:dataTable, MyFaces > > Implementation > > > > additionally: > > > > x:dataList) when doing iterations; else you > run > > into > > > > problems all > > > > over... > > > > > > > > regards, > > > > > > > > Martin > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 12:00:52 -0500, Sean > > Schofield > > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I'm not sure about the specifics of your > > custom > > > > component so its hard > > > > > to say. One thing that looks strange to me > > > > though, is your use of a > > > > > "row" tag. Typically you do not need such a > > tag. > > > > In <h:dataTable> > > > > > for instance, you only specify the columns > and > > the > > > > component > > > > > automatically generates the rows as it > > iterrates > > > > over the data. > > > > > > > > > > sean > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > __________________________________ > > > Do you Yahoo!? > > > The all-new My Yahoo! - What will yours do? > > > http://my.yahoo.com > > > > > > > > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > All your favorites on one personal page � Try My > Yahoo! > http://my.yahoo.com > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The all-new My Yahoo! - What will yours do? http://my.yahoo.com
