RE: "rendered" condition does not work as expected

[Balaji Kalyansundaram]

Looking @ the exception "PropertyNotFoundException - Bean: Rectangle,
property: radius", I can say that your EL for "rendered" does'nt work
correctly. It is looking for "radius" in  "Rectangle".

HIH.

Balaji

-----Original Message-----
From: Venkat Rao [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, 1 August 2006 2:43 AM
To: 'MyFaces Discussion'
Subject: "rendered" condition does not work as expected

My code inside a "rendered" flag is getting invoked even when the
condition is false. I am iterating over a list of Graphics objects to
display information about each by calling the object specific methods.
The code works fine if I use only <h:outputText>. If I use <h:inputText>
however, the rendered property does not seem to be taking effect.

<ui:repeat var="graphicsObj" value="#{gfx.graphicsObjList}">

    <h:panelGroup rendered="#{graphicsObj.objType == 'circle'}" >
        [Circle] Radius: <h:outputText value="#{graphicsObj.radius}"/>
    </h:panelGroup>

    <h:panelGroup rendered="#{graphicsObj.objType == 'rectangle'}" >
        [Rectangle] Length: <h:outputText
value="#{graphicsObj.length}"/>
    </h:panelGroup>

</ui:repeat>

The above works fine, as expected. However, if I change from
<h:outputText> to <h:inputText>, it complains :

javax.faces.el.PropertyNotFoundException: /graphics.xhtml @24,54
value="#{graphicsObj.radius}": Bean: Rectangle, property: radius

So, the first block of code is getting executed for a Rectangle object
when using a <h:inputText> but not when using <h:outputText>.

Any help in solving the problem is appreciated. The code for the Circle
and Rectangle beans is given below:

public class Circle implements Serializable {
    public String getObjType() {
        return "circle";
    }

    int radius;
    public void setRadius(int radius) {
        this.radius = radius;
    }
    public int getRadius() {
        return this.radius;
    }
}

public class Rectangle implements Serializable {
    public String getObjType() {
        return "rectangle";
    }

    private int length;
    public void setLength(int length) {
        this.length = length;
    }
    public int getLength() {
        return this.length;
    }
}


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