henk de boer [http://community.jboss.org/people/henk53] created the discussion
"JSF 2.0 and other issues in Visual Editor" To view the discussion, visit: http://community.jboss.org/message/584074#584074 -------------------------------------------------------------- When using JSF 2.0 & Facelets, a few problem occur in the JBoss Tools Visual Editor. I'm using 3.2 CR1. *EL methods with parameters* When I call a method via EL with parameters (which thus results in a value) an error is flagged: http://community.jboss.org/servlet/JiveServlet/showImage/2-584074-11266/el_parameters.png http://community.jboss.org/servlet/JiveServlet/downloadImage/2-584074-11266/450-54/el_parameters.png Because a method is involved, the editor seems to think it's a method expression, but this is clearly not the case. Even with the == operator no method expression is involved here. The == operator should even make it more clear the component to which this EL expression is bound will receive a value. Needless to say, the code runs perfectly well on JBoss AS 6. *Annotated managed beans* When I annotate a JSF managed bean instead of declaring it in faces-config.xml, the editor does not seem to have any knowledge of the bean. Neither navigate into and auto-completion work. E.g. if I have the following bean: import javax.annotation.PostConstruct; import javax.faces.bean.ManagedBean; import javax.faces.bean.ViewScoped; import javax.faces.event.ActionEvent; @ManagedBean @ViewScoped public class MyBean { public String getFoo() { return "foo"; } public void setFoo(String foo) {} } And a simple Facelet using this bean: <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"; xmlns:h="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html"; xmlns:f="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core";> <h:body> <h:outputText value="#{myBean.foo}" /> </h:body> </html> Then I can't do anything in the editor with "myBean". Here too, the code runs fine on JBoss AS 6. *Implicit EL Objects* The editor does not seem to have full knowledge about the EL implicit objects. When trying to auto-complete an EL expression bound to a component, e.g. <h:outputText value="#{...}"/> certain EL implicit objects pop up, but others not. Available are: * applicationScope * component * cc * cookie * facesContext * flash * header * headerValues * initParam * param * paramValues * requestScope * resource * sessionScope * view * viewScope Missing are thus: * application * request * session Then for some of those implicit EL objects it makes sense to be able to navigate into them and have auto-completion. This is exactly what the default Eclipse 3.6.1 "HTML Editor" allows. E.g. navigating into +view+ would bring me to UIViewRoot and navigating into +component+ would bring me to UIComponent. For auto-completion this is even more convenient. Finally, for some reason implicit objects are only available in the editor when I bind an expression to a component's attribute. If I directly start a #{} expression on a Facelet and try to auto complete, then no implicit objects show up at all. *Duplicate tag suggestions* When I try to auto complete tags, the editor shows me a lot of duplicate suggestions: http://community.jboss.org/servlet/JiveServlet/showImage/2-584074-11267/duplicate_tag_suggestions.png http://community.jboss.org/servlet/JiveServlet/downloadImage/2-584074-11267/425-475/duplicate_tag_suggestions.png As can be seen, basically every suggestion appears twice. When I first restarted Eclipse after the initial installation of JBoss Tools Visual Editor (Richfaces), I even saw the same ones appearing 3 times. This is not the end of the world, but it does look a little awkward. I hope this feedback will be valuable to you ;) -------------------------------------------------------------- Reply to this message by going to Community [http://community.jboss.org/message/584074#584074] Start a new discussion in JBoss Tools at Community [http://community.jboss.org/choose-container!input.jspa?contentType=1&containerType=14&container=2128]
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