Using org.jboss.seam.faces.Render from servlet

[mheath]

I'm trying to render some facelet templates from a servlet using org.jboss.seam.faces.Render.  Because I'm using a servlet, it fails.  The problem seams to be that it can't find my Facelet templates because it ends up using MockFacesContext which has a MockExternelContext which means that it ends up doing Class.getResource(...) instead of ServletContext.getResource(...) to try and find my facelet template.

Any ideas on how I can fix this?

[pmuir]

We need to review how the Renderer works e.g. the IceFaces Seam Mail compatibility issue - so keep an eye out for this!

[gavin.king]

I guess if people are starting to need to use Renderer outside of JSF, then we should create a org.jboss.seam.facelets package with a Renderer class that can use non-JSF resource loading, and have org.jboss.seam.faces.Render extend it and override its resource loading to use the JSF ExternalContext.

Alternatively, we could just change the implementation of MockExternelContext, but that seems a bit dirty, and it's kinda wrong to be using the org.jboss.seam.faces package when you're not using JSF...

It's worth a feature request in JIRA.

[pmuir]

I'm not quite sure what you mean - how can we use facelets outside of JSF?

What we need to be doing is building a fuller JSF environment in which to execute the render.