Actually, the MyFaces master/detail example source code is shedding some light on some things. Rather than me waste more of your valuable time, let me fart around with that code and see if I can tweak mine to use a similar concept. Thanks for your help and patience so far.
On 8/29/05, CONNER, BRENDAN (SBCSI) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can you send a snippet of your faces-config.xml showing your managed > bean definitions and your navigations, just to make sure I have the > picture right? > > - Brendan > > -----Original Message----- > From: Rick Reumann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, August 29, 2005 3:24 PM > To: MyFaces Discussion > Subject: Re: Concerning DataModel usage plus overhead? > > > On 8/29/05, CONNER, BRENDAN (SBCSI) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I probably just got confused by your naming convention. Can you > repeat your > > question with clearer names? > > Sure. Let me change the names and concepts.. > > First page you come to is a list of cars on "cars.jsp". Cars is > populated as DataModel from "CarsListAction.java" There is a managed > bean reference for the name "cars" to "CarsListAction.java. > CarsListAction has a method "getCars" which returns this DataModel. On > cars.jsp you have... > > <h:dataTable var="car" value="#{carsListAction.cars}" > > > Another managed bean: CarAction.java has CRUD methods. In this case > "getCar" which is supposed to get a "Car" back from the backend based > on 'carID". > > I want to be able to click on car from the list on cars.jsp and hit > the "getCar' method in my "CarAction.java" bean and forward to a > carForm.jsp that lets me edit the car. If I use a DataModel with this > I'm assuming I'll need to get a handle to the DataModel from my > CarAction.java... but the DataModel was set up in CarsListAction. > -- Rick
