Passing and ID via ajax commandlink in datatable or repeat

[mocha]

Is there an easy way in Seam to pass the id of an item through an ajax commandlink action in a repeating section. e.g.

<ui:repeat value="#{someList}" var="item">
  <a:commandLink value="edit" action="#{someBean.loadFromId(item.id)}" reRender="editDiv"
</ui:repeat>

JSF mangles this so rather than simply call the action with the ID as parameter, it submits a component identifier.  This is failing for me in some cases because I don't have the list available in a session/page scope.  Is there a way to get the id through directly?  I need JSF to rerender the resulting item that I bring into scope, so I can't use Seam remoting for this.

[abafna.bafna.amit.gmail.com]

Have you tried f:setPropertyActionListener to set the id????

Cheers!!!

Amit

[chris.simons]

If using RichFaces, look into a4j:actionParam.  This should do what you need.

Or, use f:param, but this won't be an ajax command.

I assume your a:commandLink is an a4j:commandLink?

[mocha]

Thanks for the tip on actionParam, it does work as a means of passing the parameter.  However thinking about this further, my problem is that JSF is failing to map the model on each request so the a4j:commandLink fails silently.  I'll create a new post for this.