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How to render a component only if another component is not rendered?


I have a page that the user can access via Android, iPhone, BlackBerry or via an unknown browser. I have 4 rich:panels, one for each platform and the latter is a generic one.

The code:

<rich:panel id="dlAndroid" rendered="#{fn:containsIgnoreCase(request.getHeader('User-Agent'), 'Android')}">
    ...
</rich:panel>

<rich:panel id="dlIphone" rendered="#{fn:containsIgnoreCase(request.getHeader('User-Agent'), 'iPhone')}">
    ...
</rich:panel>

<rich:panel id="dlBlackberry" rendered="#{fn:containsIgnoreCase(request.getHeader('User-Agent'), 'BlackBerry')}">
    ...
</rich:panel>

<rich:panel id="dlGeneric" rendered="#{ ---> WHAT TO WRITE HERE? <--- }">

How can I render the last rich:panel only if none of the others has been rendered?


Solution

  • To the point, your question as stated in the title can concretely be answered as:

    <rich:panel binding="#{panel1}" ...>
        ...
    </rich:panel>
    <rich:panel binding="#{panel2}" ...>
        ...
    </rich:panel>
    <rich:panel binding="#{panel3}" ...>
        ...
    </rich:panel>
    <rich:panel ... rendered="#{not panel1.rendered and not panel2.rendered and not panel3.rendered}">
        ...
    </rich:panel>
    

    However, in this particular case it's perhaps nicer to alias those long winded expressions with <c:set>:

    <c:set var="android" value="#{fn:containsIgnoreCase(header['User-Agent'], 'Android')}" scope="request" />
    <c:set var="iPhone" value="#{fn:containsIgnoreCase(header['User-Agent'], 'iPhone')}" scope="request" />
    <c:set var="blackBerry" value="#{fn:containsIgnoreCase(header['User-Agent'], 'BlackBerry')}" scope="request" />
    
    <rich:panel ... rendered="#{android}">
        ...
    </rich:panel>
    <rich:panel ... rendered="#{iPhone}">
        ...
    </rich:panel>
    <rich:panel ... rendered="#{blackBerry}">
        ...
    </rich:panel>
    <rich:panel ... rendered="#{not android and not iPhone and not blackBerry}">
        ...
    </rich:panel>
    

    Note that there's a shorter way to get the request header by the implicit #{header} map.