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Mike Kienenberger commented on MYFACES-781: ------------------------------------------- Oops! I made the last comment right before going to sleep, and I didn't notice I was looking at the javadocs for UIComponentBase.html#processDecodes instead of UIData.html#processDecodes! The javadocs for UIData clearly indicate that UIData is designed to spec. Sorry for the misinformation. Might as well close this one as "Won't Fix" > UIData accesses its grandchild components directly > -------------------------------------------------- > > Key: MYFACES-781 > URL: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MYFACES-781 > Project: MyFaces > Type: Bug > Components: Implementation > Reporter: Simon Kitching > > For an HTML table, much of the decoding process is controlled by the > components rather than the renderer. > In the class javax.faces.component.UIData, method "processColumnChildren" > (which is called by processDecodes) does this: > for (Iterator it = getChildren().iterator(); it.hasNext();) > { > UIComponent child = (UIComponent) it.next(); > if (child instanceof UIColumn) > { > if (!child.isRendered()) > { > //Column is not visible > continue; > } > for (Iterator columnChildIter = child.getChildren() > .iterator(); columnChildIter.hasNext();) > { > UIComponent columnChild = (UIComponent) columnChildIter > .next(); > process(context, columnChild, processAction); > } > } > } > And that last call to process them calls component.processDecodes, which > delegates to the renderer as needed. > However this code means UIData is accessing its *grandchildren* directly, > rather than just its children. I don't believe this is very nice OO design; > UIData's children should be responsible for managing their own children, ie > the UIColumn class should be told to process the children rather than calling > getChildren on it and manipulating those directly. > It also makes it impossible for a custom UIColumn class to receive decode > calls; they go direct to the custom column's children. > See this email thread for more info, esp. responses by Mike Kienenberger > (thanks, Mike): > http://www.mail-archive.com/users%40myfaces.apache.org/msg11363.html -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - If you think it was sent incorrectly contact one of the administrators: http://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/Administrators.jspa - For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira