0 Replies Latest reply on Jun 12, 2009 1:32 PM by ohughes

    Extending Seam JSF components

    ohughes

      Hi,


      I have a situation where I need to extend some of the core JSF seam components, primarily s:link, because I need to create an image button which supports the s:link due to conversation traversing.


      Before pageflows and conversation, I managed to do this through facelet components, but due to the way that seam evaluates the EL string given, it can't evaluate parameters being passed into a facelet, hence the need to create a proper JSF component for it.


      Here is a sample facelet doing what I need to do:


      ...
           <ui:param name="actionButton" value="#{actionButton}"/>
           <ui:param name="disabled" value="#{disabled}"/>
      
           <s:link rendered="#{actionButton.seam}" action="#{actionButton.notifyOfSelection}" style="text-decoration: none;" disabled="#{actionButton.disabled or disabled}" >
                <medComp:graphicImage 
                     visible="#{not actionButton.hidden}" 
                     style="border: 0; padding: 2px;" 
                     actionButton="#{actionButton}" 
                     url="#{actionButton.getImagePath(disabled)}" 
                     fullImageURL="#{actionButton.getFullImagePath(disabled)}"
                     title="#{messages[actionButton.imageDescription]}"/>
           </s:link>
      ...



      And a sample usage:




           <medComp:actionButton actionButton="#{mediationFlowSearch.performSearch}"/>





      But when this is used, Seam complains that it can't evaluate 'actionButton', i.e. it is null, whereas when I use the same concept but using commandLink instead, it works without any problems.


      I think this is something to do with phases.


      Does anyone have any experience with extending the Seam JSF library, or any advice on how to approach this, i.e. do I need to extend s:link, or can this be acheived another way?


      Thanks,
      Osian