Have a look at:
http://wiki.apache.org/myfaces/InvokingJsfPagesWithStandardUrls
http://jsf-comp.sourceforge.net/components/onload/index.html
-Andrew
On 4/28/06, benjamin van der veen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hello,
I sent the message quoted below to this list a few days ago, but
received no replies. I'm just wondering if perhaps it just got
overlooked; I would appreciate any insight on this issue.
Thanks a lot,
benjamin
On 4/26/06, benjamin van der veen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm coming from a PHP background, and I've run into a wall with JSF. I
> know how I'd get around it with PHP or ASP.NET, but for JSF I'm
> stumped.
>
> Here's the scenario:
>
> I'm making a message board. It has multiple forum each of which has
> many topics, each of which has many posts. Very standard thing here. I
> am implementing the page which allows a user to create a new topic.
> The URI is of the form "createTopic.jsf?forumId=<n>" where <n> is an
> integer corresponding to the forum's primary key in the database. I
> have a backing bean mapped in faces-config to "CreateTopicBean", and
> it is request scoped. Now, when the user submits the form to create a
> topic, what is the best way to let the bean know which forum this
> topic should be created under? I tried having a managed property like
> this:
>
> <managed-bean>
> <managed-bean-name>CreateTopicBean</managed-bean-name>
> <managed-bean-class>
> com.wepwnsnails.faces.managedbean.CreateTopicBean
> </managed-bean-class>
> <managed-bean-scope>request</managed-bean-scope>
> <managed-property>
> <property-name>forumId</property-name>
> <value>#{param.forumId}</value>
> </managed-property>
> </managed-bean>
>
> but when the "action" attribute of the html <form> element rendered by
> JSF is simply "createTopic.jsf", so an EL exception is thrown when JSF
> fails to set the managed property.
>
> I've also tried adding a <h:inputHidden> tag set to the forumId on the
> backing bean in a variety of ways, but they leave much to be desired
> as far as cleanliness.
>
> I'm sure that this is an issue every newbie JSF developer has
> scratched his head over; so what's the best way to go about this? I've
> had a hard time finding anything in Google, mostly because I don't
> know how to tersely phrase the problem for a seach query.
>
> Thanks a lot,
> benjamin van der veen
>
