I think there's a wiki article on it, but the two most common ways to
get a reference to a component are to
1) bind it to your backing bean
2) use "findComponent" on it (requires hardcoding the id somewhere).
On 2/8/06, Michael Heinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> Hi all,
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> I have to clear some form fields in an ActionListener method.
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> The method is called with the immediate=true attribute.
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> I found in the WIKI an article about ClearInputComponents.
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> There is following snippet:
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> component.setSubmittedValue(null);
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> // The following is only needed for immediate input components
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> // but it won't do any harm in other situations..
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> component.setValue(null);
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> component.isLocalValueSet(false);
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> I don't know how to retrieve the components.
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> My BackingBean (called DynaControllerBean) has an attribute called article
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> Article is just a simple class with a Map containing dynamic attributes:
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> private Map<String, Object> datafieldMap = new HashMap<String,
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> The jsp contains some fields, that should be cleared in the ActionListener.
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> These fields are defined like the following:
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> <t: inputText id="name"
> value="#{DynaControllerBean.article.datafield['name']}"/>
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> What have I to do now in order to set the submitted values of my article to
> null in an ActionListener?
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> Can anybody show me the right way to access the component and call
> setSubmittedValue ?
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> Thanks for any help
