accessing an object set via ui:param in a bean

[dam]

Can I access an object set via ui:param in a bean?

[damianharvey.damianharvey.gmail.com]

Not sure if I understand you, but the way ui:param works is that you normally set it as a bean or bean property.

eg. if I have a Bean called MyBean and use ui:include like this:

<ui:include src="/page.xhtml">
   <ui:param name="bean" value="#{myBean}"/>
</ui:include>

then I can refer to MyBean in the page.xhtml as #{bean} - ie. the name of the param. So any change you make in MyBean will be available in the page via the ui:param.

Have a read of the Facelets docs

Cheers,

Damian.

[dam]

Thanks

Reading up on the facelets I can see where my misunderstanding came from

I was trying to do something like this

<ui:repeat value="#{page.gadgets}" var="g" >
  <ui:include src="/book/gadgets/#{g.typeName}.xhtml">
    <ui:param name="gadget" value="${g}" />
  </ui:include>
</ui:repeat>

Which isn't possible because of the different times of evaluation of the facelets tags. (I thought they were evaluated at the same time)

This was interesting
http://www.ilikespam.com/blog/c:foreach-vs-ui:repeat-in-facelets

So I use the c:forEach tag instead.