Noting that from JSF view metadata demystified:
Since this tag is about current view metadata it doesn't participate in XHTML templates (the page author must ensure that the element does not appear on a template or included page; it can be in a template client) and it is direct child of
<f:view>
.
I have multiple <f:viewParam>
and <f:event>
that repeat in many XHTML pages, which are in turn clients of a template.xhtml
. Each f:event
depends on a given managed bean, where the managed bean is different for each XHTML page (but respects a common interface, i.e., the same operations for the listeners exist for every relevant managed bean):
<f:view>
<f:metadata>
<!-- I want to share this across many XHTML parametrised by the bean -->
<f:viewParam name="id" value="#{particularBean.id}"/>
<f:event type="preRenderView" listener="#{particularBean.opCommon1}"/>
<f:event type="preRenderView" listener="#{particularBean.opCommon2}"/>
<!-- END SHARED PORTION -->
<f:event type="preRenderView" listener="#{particularBean.onlyForMe}"/>
</f:metadata>
</f:view>
<ui:composition template="/template.xhtml">
Q: How can I encapsulate the shared <f:viewParam>
and <f:event>
portion so that it can be "included" and treated as a common policy fragment, with particular managed beans (meeting the common interface) passed in for each XHTML page ?
I found the answer in one of my own older projects (as I posted I recalled vaguely I had investigated this already at some stage years ago). This works:
In /include/shared.xhtml
:
<ui:composition
xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
xmlns:f="http://xmlns.jcp.org/jsf/core"
xmlns:ui="http://xmlns.jcp.org/jsf/facelets"
>
<f:viewParam name="id" value="#{particularBean.id}"/>
<f:event type="preRenderView" listener="#{compatibleBean.opCommon1}"/>
<f:event type="preRenderView" listener="#{compatibleBean.opCommon2}"/>
</ui:composition>
And in any client:
<f:view>
<f:metadata>
<ui:include src="/included/shared.xhtml">
<ui:param name="compatibleBean" value="#{particularBean}"/>
</ui:include>
<f:event type="preRenderView" listener="#{particularBean.onlyForMe}"/>
</f:metadata>
</f:view>