So you want to force the component to render the child's id even if
there was none supplied by the page author? Do you care what the id
is?
sean
On 5/24/05, Csík Norbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi
>
> I am creating an own component, which contains a child component. If
> the page author didn't set the id of the child component, then JSF
> didn't generate the id attribute for that HTML component in the
> generated HTML page, and the modifications made by my component is
> useless. So I have to check if the page author set the id, because if
> he's not then I have to set it to force the renderer to render the id
> attribute.
>
> I've tried wrote out to the standard infput the component's getId()
> and getClientId() value, but both of them were '_id18' (the generated
> id) if the page auther hadn't set the id attribute, and were 'myId' if
> he had set.
>
> I can ovverride the id with component.setId('child_' +
> component.getId()) and it works fine, but in this case the generated
> id becomes 'child__id18' and 'child_myId' which isn't the solution I'm
> looking for.
>
> On 5/24/05, Sean Schofield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > The child component's getId, and getClientId methods always
> > > return a value, they are never null.
> >
> > According to the spec getId can return null but getClientId must be
> > "derived from the component identifier (or the result of calling
> > UIViewRoot.createUniqueId() if there is not one.)"
> >
> > So there is not a lot of flexability there. Just curious, but why
> > would you want to know this info?
> >
> > > Norbert Csík
> >
> > sean
> >
>
>
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