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Node type not available through BrowseBean?

davidpisaac — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 20:02:58 GMT

Hello-I cannot seem to access a node's "type" property through the BrowseBean in a JSP through a richList. That is:<hutputText id="col10-nodeinfo" value="#{NavigationBean.currentNode.type}" />correctly shows a node's type, but:<hutputText id="col10-nodeinfo2" value="#{r.type}" />whe

Re: Node type not available through BrowseBean?

davidpisaac — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 15:28:33 GMT

I think I just found the answer to my own question, but I'll leave this post for others. BrowseBean.nodes apparently returns a list of lightweight MapNodes, that have some but not all properties of a Node populated.

Re: Node type not available through BrowseBean?

dhalupa — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 10:37:24 GMT

If I may add, I think that all properties from Node are also present in TransientMapNode. The difference comes from the fact that TransientMapNode is implementing Map interface. Therefore, in the first case, JSF will call method getType() which will return Qname of node type, while in the second case JSF will not invoke getType() method, but rather, get("type") method of Map interface which will return null.

Re: Node type not available through BrowseBean?

kevinr — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 17:00:21 GMT

If I may add, I think that all properties from Node are also present in TransientMapNode. The difference comes from the fact that TransientMapNode is implementing Map interface. Therefore, in the first case, JSF will call method getType() which will return Qname of node type, while in the second case JSF will not invoke getType() method, but rather, get("type") method of Map interface which will return null.

You are correct.

Kevin

Re: Node type not available through BrowseBean?

gilles — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 12:43:18 GMT

Did you suceed in getting the type of your beans in the richlist?