How to create a tag with the CDK that has access to its body?

[pjmlp]

Hi everyone,

does the CDK support the creation of tags that behave like this?

{code:xml}
<mytag attr1="some_value">
    my tag body content as free text
</mytag>
{code}

I can create a tag that behaves like that by coding the component from scratch myself, but I really would like to take advantage of the CDK, specially because all our new tags are usually developed with the CDK.

Is it possible?

Thanks in advance

[ilya_shaikovsky]

component creation described there http://docs.jboss.org/richfaces/latest_3_3_X/en/cdkguide/html/ - chapters related to component project generation.

And in order to quickly look into the component template like you need - checkout

http://anonsvn.jboss.org/repos/richfaces/branches/community/3.3.X/ui/panel

[pjmlp]

Thanks for the example, but it does not help me.

I really need to access the tag's body content and manipulate it. The example you provided just makes use of the inherited renderChildren() method.

When doing a component by hand, I need to add code to the JSP and Facelets Tag handlers to retrieve the body contents. Is this not possible at all with the CDK based components?

As for the manual, I am using it already for some time, still, some chapters could be improved, but that is off-topic for the discussion at hand.

[pjmlp]

Answering to myself, I ended up doing something like this,

{code:java}
public void renderChildren(FacesContext context, UIComponent component) throws IOException {
        if (component.getChildCount() == 1) {
            myTagBody = component.getChildren().get(0).toString().trim();
        }
    }
{code}

This follows a bit the example given by Ilya.