No need to mess with renderComponent as there is a handy prebuilt
component for such tasks...

PageLink A will render if someExpression evaluates to true (or any non
null value).

<li>
  <span jwcid="@Conditional" condition="ognl:someExpression">
   <PageLink A>
</span>
<PageLink B></li>

Geoff

On 8/19/05, Waimun Yeow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thank you so much!
> 
> I have another question related to super.renderComponent. It's actually not a 
> problem in my application right now, but I am anticipating that the following 
> scenario might occur some time later:
> 
> Let's suppose:
> 
> 1) there are two PageLink components defined in the component spec
> 
> 2) in the component template, we have <li><PageLink A><PageLink B></li>
> 
> Therefore, a call to super.renderComponent will render all these tags. If I 
> wanted to add a logic that selectively render <PageLink A> and also the 
> enclosing <li> tag, I would getComponent for <PageLink A> and invoke 
> render(). But what about the <li> or the other static stuff (if exists) in 
> the component template?
> 
> What would be a correct way of doing this?
> 
> Thanks again.
> 
> --
> waimun
> 
> On 8/19/05, Geoff Longman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > override renderComponent, do your checks, then call super.renderComponent
> >
> > Geoff
> >
> > On 8/18/05, Waimun Yeow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I am subclassing BaseComponent, and in the class renderComponent()
> > > method, I would like to render the contents of the component's template
> > > after some logic checks are performed and determined that the component
> > > should render.
> > >
> > > How do I do that? I tried to use render() method but I get
> > > stackoverflow exception.
> > >
> > > Please advise.
> > >
> > > Thanks.
> > >
> > > --
> > > waimun
> > >
> 
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