Dynamic tabPanel tabs issue / feature request

[raffaele camanzo]

Hi all,

I'm trying to create a tabPanel where the tabs are inserted / removed dynamically;
I tried to achieve this through xhtml in these ways:

solution one:

<rich:tabPanel>
 <ui:repeat value="#{mycomponent.tabdatalist}" var="tabdata">
 <rich:tab label="#{tabdata.label}">
 <ui:insert name="tabcontent"/>
 </rich:tab>
 </ui:repeat>
</rich:tabPanel>


solution two:

<rich:tabPanel>
 <a4j:repeat value="#{mycomponent.tabdatalist}" var="tabdata">
 <rich:tab label="#{tabdata.label}">
 <ui:insert name="tabcontent"/>
 </rich:tab>
 </a4j:repeat>
</rich:tabPanel>

- solution one fails saying no selected tab present (I think there's a problem of creation / evaluation sequence.. it seems it does not fill the tabPanel at all);
- solution two fails saying that the parent of the tab is not the tabPanel but the a4j:repeat element.

I'm not creating the tabPanel programmatically because of the ui:insert tag (it seems there's no api to do this programmatically) and because I find this practice a little bit boring and confusing (but this is a problem of mine).

So, the suggestion (the best solution for me.. but if you have another one is ok):

<rich:tabPanel value="#{mycomponent.tabdatalist}" var="tabdata">
 <rich:tab label="#{tabdata.label}">
 <ui:insert name="tabcontent"/>
 </rich:tab>
</rich:tabPanel>

As always...
Thank you,
Regards,
Raffaele Camanzo

[raffaele camanzo]

Found almost the same problem in Jira.. I added a comment to suggest the dataTable like solution.

If you have a similar problem you may plan to vote it (not the suggestion :) for that we need the RichFaces guys to put their head on):
http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/RF-89

In the related post:
http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4035943

there's a workaround solution using c:forEach.

Regards,
Raffaele Camanzo