passing hidden field value to backing bean

[amitraj bharat]

I have a Datatable. what I am doin is when a row is clicked. I call javascript function and find the index of the clicked row,set index of the clicked row in hidden field h:inputHidden. Value is getting set in the hidden field.
I have a commandlink on my page with a action.In the action I want this index value which is now in Hidden Field on my JSF . Please can you tell me how to retrieve the hidden field value from jsf page in my backing bean?

[Anu Sri]

Hi Amitraj,

you can use getRowData() method of datatable to access the selected row values in bean.

[amitraj bharat]

To be more precise I have a normal datatable (no radiobutton. no commandbutton, no commandlink) which displays data. I have a commandlink on the page. On clicking the datatable row the Row is highlighted. After that I click on the commandLink to perform action "edit". Edit action should display the form with the field from datatable row highlighted.

To do this what I have done is on clicking row I call javascript function and get the rowindex. I put this row index value in hidden field using the javascript function. This is working fine. Now I want this value in the hidden field to be submitted to Backing bean on clicking the commandlink.

[Arshad Sharief]

You can have this hidden field mapped to a property in the backing bean.