Create rich:calendar programmatically

[allanjun]

Hi there,

I'm having a problem of creating a rich:calendar component from Java, I got an "Component xxxx not instance of org.richfaces.component.UICalendar" exception.

The way I created is as follow:
publi class Test {
public HtmlPanelGrid getViewPanel() {
HtmlPanelGrid viewPanel = new HtmlPanelGrid();
HtmlCalendar calendar = new HtmlCalendar();
calendar.setPopup(true);
calendar.setDatePattern("dd/MM/yyyy");
calendar.setValue(new Date());
viewPanel.getChildren().add(calendar);
}
}


and I then bind it to a <h:panelGrid binding="#{test.viewPanel}"/>

I notice that the source code of a working rich:calendar is quite complicated than just a tag which was generated by the above java code.

So, how do I create a rich:calendar from java then?

Thanks.

[nbelaevski]

Hello,

Your code is ok. When do these exception happen?

[ilya_shaikovsky]

could be classloading issue. You using EAR or WAR? Where RF libs are placed?

[allanjun]

"ilya_shaikovsky" wrote:
could be classloading issue. You using EAR or WAR? Where RF libs are placed?

I'm using EAR, and have the 3.3.0.GA included in there. And had those libs in war/web-inf/lib again.

The exception raises when the page was being rendered.

[nbelaevski]

EAR, put:

richfaces-api in EAR\lib\*
richfaces-impl, richfaces-ui in EAR\WAR\WEB-INF\lib\*

[allanjun]

"nbelaevski" wrote:
EAR, put:

richfaces-api in EAR\lib\*
richfaces-impl, richfaces-ui in EAR\WAR\WEB-INF\lib\*

But my war project only contains web pages, java classes are in a ejb jar project, therefore, i have to put all 3 RF libs in EAR, and included them again in war\web-inf\lib.

[nbelaevski]

You should put classes using components into WAR. Another solution - work through generic JSF API, without using UICalendar/HtmlCalendar: use Application#createComponent() to instantiate component and UIComponent#getAttributes() to set attributes.

[allanjun]

"nbelaevski" wrote:
You should put classes using components into WAR. Another solution - work through generic JSF API, without using UICalendar/HtmlCalendar: use Application#createComponent() to instantiate component and UIComponent#getAttributes() to set attributes.

Thanks nbelaevski. It worked within WAR, but using generic JSF API didn't help.