2 Replies Latest reply on Apr 18, 2012 8:53 AM by skotinin

    JSF Question about passing parameters (needing converters) to resource bundles from facelets...

    qdog1028

      have a JSF question about how to pass mutliple complex parameters to resource bundles. Take the following example below where I am passing a value to a resource bundle for a parameter. Works fine.

       

      <h:outputFormat value="#{messages['label.widget.count']}">
      <f:param value="#{widgetCount}"/>
      </h:outputFormat>

       

      Now take the example(s) below using a converter or more complicated piece of data that needs something done to it and am passing a value to a resource bundle for a parameter. This doesn’t work (it returns a null value even though outside of it it runs fine) . I’ve tried everything and can’t figure out how to do it. Any ideas?

       

      <h:outputFormat value="#{messages['label.welcomemessagewithdate']}">
      <f:param value="#{widget.date}">
      <f:converter converterId=”dateConverter” />
      </f:param>
      </h:outputFormat>
      OR
      <h:outputFormat value="#{messages['label.welcomemessagewithdate']}">
      <f:param>
      <h:outputText value="#{widget.date}">
      <f:converter converterId=”dateConverter” />
      </h:outputText>
      </f:param>
      </h:outputFormat>

       

      So the basic question is how can I pass a parameter to a resource bundle in the form of “widge.message=Hello {0}, the time is {1}” where 1 needs a converter with it to format it correctly?

       

      Thanks in advance!

       

      Chris

        • 1. Re: JSF Question about passing parameters (needing converters) to resource bundles from facelets...
          ssilvert

          Hi Chris,

           

          I took a close look at this using Mojarra 2.0.  When I put a <f:converter> tag inside a <f:param> tag and I got this exception:

          javax.faces.view.facelets.TagException: /index.xhtml @23,60 <f:converter> Parent not an instance of ValueHolder: javax.faces.component.UIParameter@1675bf3

          According to javadoc, <f:param> doesn't support converters.  However, if used with some tags, such as <h:link>, you can use the converterId attribute to pass a converter.  This works:

          <h:link value="Hello Link">
            <f:param name="foo" value="#{myDate}" converterId="javax.faces.DateTime"/>
          </h:link>

           

          The thing about <f:param> is that the parent component gets to decide how to treat it.

          Anyway, I haven't looked at the code for the tag, but it looks like <h:outputFormat> won't look for converters on its <f:param> children. 

          I think the easiest workaround for you is to use a managed bean to do the conversion.  You could just let #{widget} return the date as a string that is formatted the way you want it.
          <f:param value="#{widget.convertedDate}">

          If you were using JBoss AS6, you could take advantage of EL ValueExpressions with params and do something like this:

          <f:param value="#{myConverterBean(widget.date)}">

           

          Another approach is to use some logic that changes the value in the component tree during the JSF lifecycle.  I think that would be overly complicated though.

           

          Stan

          • 2. Re: JSF Question about passing parameters (needing converters) to resource bundles from facelets...
            skotinin

            Hello!

            h:outputFormat uses MessageFormat.format() for output string. See MessageFormat api documentation for information about how can convert param.

             

            For example:

             

            label_pos_dt_dt2=xxx "{0}-{1,date,short}" / yyy "{2}-{3,date,short}"

             

                        <h:outputFormat value="#{msg.label_pos_dt_dt2}" >
                            <f:param value="#{CalcBean.selectedPosDt}" />
                            <f:param value="#{CalcBean.selectedDPosDt}" />
                            <f:param value="#{CalcBean.selectedPosDt2}" />
                            <f:param value="#{CalcBean.selectedDPosDt2}" />
                        </h:outputFormat>