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JSF and updating page data

ajshaw — Mon, 08 May 2006 13:38:42 GMT

Hello. I'm pretty new to JSF, so any help would be greatly appreciated. I have implemented a system of promoting/demoting documents in the repository, based on an aspect property, 'orderNumber'. This is for the purpose of implementing some simple web-content management functionality.I have incorpora

Re: JSF and updating page data

kevinr — Mon, 08 May 2006 14:48:20 GMT

In your event handler for the button, perform this code:


UIContextService.getInstance(FacesContext.getCurrentInstance()).notifyBeans();
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Kevin

Re: JSF and updating page data

ajshaw — Mon, 08 May 2006 15:47:59 GMT

Thanks Kevin. That worked fine

Re: JSF and updating page data

manuelgentile — Tue, 09 May 2006 08:39:49 GMT

Aaron
can you share this feature?
It looks good!

Re: JSF and updating page data

ajshaw — Thu, 11 May 2006 15:01:36 GMT

I'm currently externalizing it after seeing recent posts about how to keep jsf config modification seperate, like the extensions under tomcat/shared/extension…

I'll post here when i'm done.

Thanks.

Re: JSF and updating page data

ajshaw — Fri, 12 May 2006 08:13:30 GMT

Okay, i've been looking at the thread about Simon's post regarding putting his new beans and modified faces-config files in a META-INF folder, jarred up in WEB-INF lib. I cant get this to work (not still using the old beans), but even if i could, i am wondering about the way i'd override these beans.

From what i can see, for example, the BrowseBean is referenced in other beans (LoginBean etc…) using the actual class (org.alfresco.web.bean.BrowseBean) rather than any kind of interface or base class. This means that i cannot change the bean implementation without following the trail through all the dependancies and altering the references.

Can anyone tell me if this is really the case? (It's early and i may be missing something).

If this is the case, it's not necessarily a critisism. I just don't want to wast time trying to figure something out that cant be done.

Thanks

Re: JSF and updating page data

ajshaw — Fri, 12 May 2006 09:12:23 GMT

After further thought i suppose that if i extend BrowseBean, say BrowseBeanZ, and copy/paste in the private members/methods it should work okay.

Changing the faces-config-beans.xml to use blah.blah.BrowseBeanZ rather than org.alfresco.web.bean.BrowseBean will mean that i get my BrowseBeanZ functionality, and when referenced in other classes as org.alfresco.web.bean.BrowseBean, it will be cast up from blah.blah.BrowseBeanZ, providing the original functionality that this dependant class needs.

Sorry for the rant. Now i gotta just get the config files mwntioned in my original post to use the new bean!

Thanks.