Issue/Question using more than 1 ajax event (using a4j:suppo

[josephotoole]

Hi

I need to use 2 ajax events with my calendar. I use oncurrentdateselected to be notified when the user navigates between months and onchanged to be notified when the user selects a particular date.

In the calendar I have also defined a valueChangeListener attribute - valueChangeListener="#{calendarController.calendarModel.valueChanged}". Hence this method is invoked when the user

(1) navigates between different months or
(2) selects a particular date

The issue/question I have is that I would like to have a different method triggered on by backing bean for each of these 2 different events. Is this possible? In other words is there anyways,I can specify that I want Backingbean.method1() called for event1 and BackingBean.method2() called for event2.

Thanks!

<rich:calendar popup="false"
currentDate="#{calendarController.activeDate}"
binding="#{calendarController.calendar}"
immediate="true"
showWeeksBar="false"
reRender="calendarEntries" showFooter="false"
dataModel="#{calendarController.calendarModel}"
valueChangeListener="#{calendarController.calendarModel.valueChanged}">
<a4j:support event="onchanged"></a4j:support>
<a4j:support event="oncurrentdateselected">
</a4j:support>
</rich:calendar>

[ilya_shaikovsky]

just define different methods in actionListener attributes of support components instead of using valueChangeListener.

[josephotoole]

Thanks very much!

[josephotoole]

Sorry one further question.

I updated the 2 suport components to use the actionListener attributes. However, when I define the 2 methods they need to take an ActionEvent object as a parameter.

When the user navigates between months or selects a particular date, I need to know the oldDate and the newDate. Hence when I was using the valueChangeListener on the calendar component(without having actionListener specified on the support components) this worked fine because the object passed in the method was of type ValueChangeEvent.

Unfortunately, I cannot cast the ActionEvent to a ValueChangeEvent. Hence using the actionListener attribute in conjunction with the support components I cannot determine the oldDate and the newDate.

Any ideas much appreciated
Thanks

[ilya_shaikovsky]

ok you could use valueChangeListener then as you've used before. But add some params to both supports and calls different methods from listener using param value.

[josephotoole]

Thanks once again!