You don't need to escape those characters inside of Java Strings or
inside of HTML.
The problem is that there is still an unresolved bug with nested
datatables. They don't properly update child UIInputs. It might even
be this way for all nested UIDatas, but I'm not sure.
On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 09:03:04 -0500, Srikanth Madarapu
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> the ' characters around contentForm:hiddenCategory are not being escaped,
> that could be causing a problem.
>
> >onclick="#{'forms[\'contentForm\'].elements['contentForm:hiddenCategory'].value='+cat.id}"
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michal Malecki [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Friday, February 18, 2005 3:01 AM
> To: myfaces
> Subject: extending f:param (EL bug?)
>
> Hello,
> yestarday I was trying to make my app as friendly as it could be.
> Unfortunatelly i failed ;) Here is what I have
> one big dataTable, and nested inside two simple datatables (my renderer,
> only to list elements, similarly to foreach). You can click on the elements
> listed by nested dataTables (categories and authors), and of course I want
> to know what was clicked. Now I add f:param to the link, and in code I found
> that component and read its value. In that way I can't use converters. So I
> wanted to do the following - add inputHidden outside dataTables, and using
> javascript set the right value. It looks ugly and it's not working :((
> onclick="#{'forms[\'contentForm\'].elements['contentForm:hiddenCategory'].va
> lue='+cat.id}"
> Unfortunatelly the ' is not escaped before contentForm. So is it possible to
> do that?
>
> And second thought - would it be useful (and possible?) to create x:param,
> which instead of setting value in the request, would set that value to the
> value binding e.g. <x:param value="#{cat.id}"
> beanValue="#{category.currentCategory}"> - after cl8icking on the link
> cat.id value would be set to the currentCategory of the category bean.
> What do you think?
>
> MichaÅ MaÅecki
>
>
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