Can this be added to the doco.. it's a great tip.
perhaps close to pg 67
The <factory> declaration lets you specify a value or method binding expression that will be evaluated to initialize
the value of a context variable when it is first referenced.
<components>
<factory name="contact" method="#{contactManager.loadContact}" scope="CONVERSATION"/>
</components>
I also use the following in components.xml
<factory name="basePath"
value="#{facesContext.externalContext.request.scheme}://#{facesContext.externalContext.request.serverName}:
#{facesContext.externalContext.request.serverPort}#{facesContext.externalContext.request.contextPath
}/"/>
Note this is all one line the forum wrapped
and
<base href="#{basePath}" />
So i can have the view files in different directories, but still resolve the images and css to the root of the webapp with out having to do ../../images/myimage.jpg
I used to use something like this
@Create
public void setup() {
request = (HttpServletRequest) facesContext.getExternalContext().getRequest();
}
@Factory("basePath")
public void loadBasePath()
{
basePath = request.getScheme() + "://" +
request.getServerName() + ":" +
request.getServerPort() + request.getContextPath() + "/";
}
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led to me re-organising my code a lot:
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" ref="#{basePath}/xmlhttp/css/xp/xp.css" />
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="#{basePath}/css/risingstars.css" />
Allowing me to move a lot of pages that users should not access under WEB-INF
template="/WEB-INF/pages/template.xhtml">
Perhaps it obvious to you lot, but saved me a whole heap of headache.
