Are you using JSF1.2? Check out f:setPropertyActionListener for changing from a list-page to a detail-page.
regards, Martin On 2/1/08, Martyn Hiemstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi All > > My company has chosen to use jsf in a new project. I myself am used to > SpringMVC which works perfectly for my needs but I figured, why not try > jsf since I have to use. I am running into a problem which is a pretty > huge problem in jsf. Maybe someone can explain it to me how to solve my > problem. It's also possible that I dont understand the concept correctly. > > I want to redrect a user to a page where they can edit their address. In > Spring MVC I would redirect the user to /editAddress.do?id=persons_id. > As you can see I would pass the id of the logged in person to the url > and the controller will verify that the passed id is the same as the > currently logged in user and then the controller will load the users > address and display it on the screen. > > I want to do the same in jsf. I have a user profile page and on that > page, users can edit their address by pressing a button. I have attached > an action to the button and created the method in the Page object. This > method is editAddress. In jsf if I want to redirect to the edit address > page but it turns out that I cant supply parameters in the navigation > xml file. I read on the Internet that I have to load the edit address > page using it's bean name and then fill in the information in the edit > address bean and then return the flow id. That I must return the flow id > is great because that way no url's are defioned in page objects but that > I must load the page bean with the following code is really and I mean > really hard to understand: > > FacesContext facesContext = FacesContext.getCurrentInstance( ); > ExpressionFactory factory = facesContext.getApplication( > ).getExpressionFactory( ); > EditAddressPage page = factory.createValueExpression( > facesContext.getELContext( ), PAGE_NAME, Object.class > ).getValue(FacesContext.getCurrentInstance().getELContext()); > > I then need to fill the edit address page with the address data. I > thought jsf was supposed to be easy to use but this is ridiculous. Can > someone please tell me if there is a much easier way to pass information > onto a page either via a parameter or some other way, preferably via > parameters and as a redirect instead of an internal forward. > > Thanks in advance, > Martyn > > > > > > -- http://www.irian.at Your JSF powerhouse - JSF Consulting, Development and Courses in English and German Professional Support for Apache MyFaces
