Gregg
On 6/28/06, Cosma Colanicchia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Your backing-bean method is request or session scoped?
1) With request-scoped bean, I would set the value binding of your
filter components to a different bean property than the one that is
used by your "getArticles" method, and create a method "applyFilters"
that simply copies the "temporary" filter properties in the actual
ones.. this way your filters will not be applied until your "apply
filters" button is pressed.
2) With session-scoped bean, I would simply not get all the articles
on each "getArticles" call.. this method should simply return a member
variable, and a different method "applyFilter" should load its value,
looking at the current filter settings.
Hope this helps
Cosma
2006/6/28, Gregg Bolinger < [EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> This isn't about MyFaces specifically so I apologize but this list is the
> best JSF resource I know of. ;)
>
> I have a page that contains a list of Articles. There are also filter
> criteria to filter the list of Articles. The article list is a dataTable
> who's value is a method in the backing bean that returns a list of articles.
> Simple enough. So when the page first loads, I get all the articles.
>
> The problem I am facing is part of the filter is 3 levels of categories.
> Category, Sub Category, and a Sub Sub Category. Each of these is a
> selectOneMenu and the child catagories depends on the parent category. So I
> have valueChangeListeners registered so that when one drop down changes, the
> child dropdown gets new values.
>
> The problem with this is that when this happens, my method to get the list
> of articles is called. But I don't want this to happen until I click the
> Search button. So I am just looking for solutions to solve this.
>
> Thanks.
>
