I'm developing a pure JavaEE6 application with JSF 2.0 and Glassfish. My JSF implementation is Primefaces (beside Mojarra provided by Glassfish).
I want to verify if the values of 2 password fields in a JSF form are equal.
With Seam, there is the neat component <s:validateEquality for="pw1"/>
.
I want do to the same without Seam, just using JSF (or maybe a component of a JSF library). Until now i only saw examples which validate the form with a custom validator. But i would like to compare the fields without writing Java code or Javascript code.
Is that possible?
This what it looks like with Seam:
...
<h:inputSecret id="passwort" value="#{personHome.instance.password}"
redisplay="true" required="true">
<f:validateLength minimum="8"/>
<a:support event="onblur" reRender="passwortField" bypassUpdates="true" ajaxSingle="true" />
</h:inputSecret>
...
<h:inputSecret id="passwort2" required="true" redisplay="true">
<!-- find the JSF2.0-equivalent to this tag: -->
<s:validateEquality for="passwort"/>
<a:support event="onblur" reRender="passwort2Field" bypassUpdates="true" ajaxSingle="true" />
</h:inputSecret>
...
This is the way i finally did it, which i like cause it's short and easy. The only problem is that it's not really re-usable, but as i only need this in one case, i rather save some LOCs and do it this way. Snippet from my view:
<h:inputSecret id="password" value="#{personHome.person.password}">
<f:ajax event="blur" render="passwordError" />
</h:inputSecret>
<h:message for="password" errorClass="invalid" id="passwordError" />
<h:inputSecret id="password2" validator="#{personHome.validateSamePassword}">
<f:ajax event="blur" render="password2Error" />
</h:inputSecret>
<h:message for="password2" errorClass="invalid" id="password2Error" />
My Backing Bean (just the important part):
@Named @ConversationScoped
public class PersonHome {
private Person person;
public Person getPerson() {
if (person == null) return new Person();
else return person;
}
public void validateSamePassword(context:FacesContext, toValidate:UIComponent, value:Object) {
String confirmPassword = (String)value;
if (!confirmPassword.equals(person.getPassword()) {
FacesMessage message = new FacesMessage(FacesMessage.SEVERITY_ERROR, "Passwords do not match!", "Passwords do not match!")
throw new Validatorexception(message);
}
}