Custom JSF components in VPE

[niox]

Hello everybody,

I would like to know how to include a custom JSF component in the visual page editor, both at the source level and the graphical preview.

The tools documentation describes a procedure to add a tag library in the toolbar, but you get no graphical representation in the preview pane. A search of the forum did not provide additional information.

Any pointers to information or source code would be appreciated. Even a pointer to the JBoss tools source code would be very useful to get me started.

Thanks in advance,
Nikos

[mareshkau]

Hi niox,
I have added custom jsf component in graphicals, it's should work in jboss tools nightly builds.
You can see and comment
https://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/JBIDE-3197
Also if you add test cases which not works in our graphical editor, it's will be nice.

[niox]

Maxim,

Thank you for your reply. I had come across your work while investigating for my question.

Does this work for custom components or custom renderers that are not defined as facelets components? Say I have a custom renderer for the UISelectOne component, and a Facelets tag that integrates the UISelectOne with my new renderer. How can I make it display right in VPE?

Also could you point me to the classes you changed for this?

Thanks again,
Nikos

[mareshkau]

niox,
It's works for custom components which has source tag, it's not works for custom renders. As I understand DOM created in java code in you own render? It's not loads from some .xhtml file. If so there isn't possibility in VPE to display components it's implemented using custom java render. We are thinking about how we can do it, here some diagrams which show how VPE processing elements and my proposals for feature
http://www.jboss.org/community/wiki/VPEcurrentstateandpossibleideastomovingtoo/
Here diagram how vpe process ui:composition http://www.jboss.org/community/wiki/VPEprocessingincludefilesuicompositiontemplatecustomcomponentsandetc. Code which I have changed you can find in https://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/JBIDE-3197, here exists FishEye tab where will be displayed source code changes which related to this issue.
https://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/JBIDE-3197?page=com.atlassian.jira.ext.fisheye%3Afisheye-issuepanel

[niox]

Thank you very much for the pointers.

[mareshkau]

Any feedback is appreciated.