I used the warn level since I'm already using the error and info level. I just don't like using warn instead of my own custom one.
I saw the ordinal and ordering in the source code. I don't see any reason why you couldn't override the order or create a new severity. I could make them display in any order I wanted by reordering the ordinals and shouldn't affect the renderkit. The renderkit would always render them according to ordinal. Shawn -----Original Message----- From: Scott O'Bryan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2007 10:44 AM To: MyFaces Discussion Subject: Re: FacesMessage Serverity Shawn, Oracle did something similar. Our solution was that we created a custom FacesMessage which also took an enumeration of our allowed severity types. These severity types could be mapped to the standard JSF severity types (Confirmation was mapped to Severity.INFO for instance) if a renderkit or something needed it in order to display the message. We then added get and set methods for the message type. Unfortunately JSF gives the illusion of being able to change the severities easily, but the "ordinal" system that's in place in JSF does not lend itself to this. Plus, many renderkits (like trinidad) use the Severity in order to render messages on their components, so changing them will break these renderkits. Scott Simon Kitching wrote: > Garner, Shawn wrote: >> I need to create a custom message severity. >> >> I wanted to create a confirmation message severity but Severity has a >> private constructor? >> >> Shouldn't this be public so you can add your own? > > I guess the API doesn't intend people to create custom severities. > > The official javadocs are part of the JSF specification, and this page > doesn't indicate any public or protected constructor so MyFaces is > probably *required* not to provide one in order to be "JSF compliant": > > http://java.sun.com/javaee/javaserverfaces/1.1_01/docs/api/javax/faces/a pplication/FacesMessage.Severity.html > > > Regards, > > Simon > **************************************************************************** This email may contain confidential material. If you were not an intended recipient, Please notify the sender and delete all copies. We may monitor email to and from our network. ****************************************************************************
