concatenate Strings in EL

[brachie]

Hi,

I am using Richfaces and want to concatenate Strings in EL, but it does not work. Here is my example:

<a:commandLink action="#{indexer.indexPerson}"
 value="Start indexing (Status: #{(personIndexingProcess.percentComplete lt 100) ? personIndexingProcess.percentComplete+'%' : 'idle'})"/>

Is it possible to concatenate the personIndexingProcess.percentComplete with the static string '%'?

Regards,

Alexander

[daniel.soneira]

I don't know of any possibility to do this in EL. I would solve the problem like this:

<a:commandLink action="#{indexer.indexPerson}">
 <h:outputText value="Start indexing (Status: "/>
 <h:outputText value="#{personIndexingProcess.percentComplete}%" rendered="#{personIndexingProcess.percentComplete lt 100}"/>
 <h:outputText value="idle" rendered="#{personIndexingProcess.percentComplete eq 100}"/>
 <h:outputText value=")"/>
</a:commandLink>

[mars1412]

take a look at this: http://jakarta.apache.org/taglibs/doc/string-doc/intro.html

[brachie]

@Daniel and mars1412: Thanks for your suggestions. I think I will try out Daniels solution first! :-)

Regards,

Alexander

[fabmars]

Concatenation in EL doesn't exist.
http://developers.sun.com/docs/jscreator/help/2update1/jsp-jsfel/jsf_expression_language_intro.html