Namespace in JSF Portlet

[Zuochao Liao]

Hi all,

There is an example code about getting namespace in IBM red book 6681:
http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg246681.html?Open page584


It�s JSF168 project. The workflow is:
a. Open the PageCodeBase.java file. Create the following attribute:
protected String namespace;
b. Create a method to get the portlet namespace from the RenderResponse:

public String getNamespace() {
if (namespace == null) {
RenderResponse response =
(RenderResponse)facesContext.getExternalContext().getResponse();
namespace = response.getNamespace();
}
return namespace;
}




c.In the jsp, change the javascript invoking code:
onchange="return #{pc_Calculate.namespace}func_1(this, event);"



The reason to use value bind to retrieve the namespace in the
onchange attribute is because JSF components does not accept runtime
expressions as values. So you cannot use portlet:namespace here. For this
reason we created a namespace property in PageCodeBase class, with its
proper get method. Inside the JavaScript function, you do not have this
limitation, so you could use the portlet:namespace tag.


My question is: I use IBM Portlet project instead of 168 project.
I get the exception:
Error getting property 'namespace' from bean of type pagecode.ProductView: java.lang.ClassCastException: com/ibm/wps/pe/pc/legacy/impl/PortletResponseImpl incompatible with javax/portlet/RenderResponse












The reason is:
In IBM portlet project �facesContext.getExternalContext().getResponse()� returns com/ibm/wps/pe/pc/legacy/impl/PortletResponseImpl, not javax/portlet/RenderResponse (only for 168 project).

How can I get the namespace in the JSF page in IBM Portlet project? I want to use the namespace to keep my javascript code unique.

Thanks,

George

[Luiz Almeida]

Hi Zuochao.

I had the same problem.
I made the getNamespace method to work as well as follow:

public String getNamespace() {
if (namespace == null) {
namespace = facesContext.getExternalContext().encodeNamespace("");
}
return namespace;
}

However, I couldn't get the JavaScript method to work :-(

<SCRIPT type="text/javascript">
function <portlet:namespace/>func_1(thisObj, thisEvent) {
document.forms['view<portlet:namespace/>:form1'].submit();
return false;
}
</SCRIPT>

The bold text doesn't work.
If you can get it work, please tell me.

Regards,

Luiz Almeida