Pass value to ManagedBean in Facelet

[John Storta Jr.]

I am currently converting my old JSP pages to JSF 2.0 facelets. So far I am very impressed with the framework. I am running into an issue on one thing.

I have a bean that I use to load assorted stylesheets based on what browser is being used, the theme and the specific section of the site. This bean provides a list of stylesheets and those are added to the page as <LINK>s

Here is the original code.

<jsp:useBean id="styleSheetBean" class="web.bean.StyleSheetBean" scope="request" />
<jsp:setProperty name="styleSheetBean" property="userAgent" value="${header['User-Agent']}" />
<jsp:setProperty name="styleSheetBean" property="theme" value="${param.theme}" />
<jsp:setProperty name="styleSheetBean" property="styles" value="${paramValues.styles}" />

<c:forEach var="currentLink" items="${styleSheetBean.styleSheets}">
    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="screen" href="/mysite/include/css/${currentLink}"/>
</c:forEach>

This works great. Now I am trying to convert this to the facelet and I am running into some problems locating the functionality that I need.


This is what I have so far in my facelet.

<ui:repeat var="currentLink" value="${styleSheetBean.styleSheets}">
    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="screen" href="/mysite/include/css/${currentLink}"/>
</ui:repeat>

This also works great, except in my original code I am also passing values to the bean before I generate the list. I cannot find a way to pass values to the managedbean from within the facelet.

All of the references I have found online refer to setting managedproperties in an xml file, but I need to be able to set the properties from the facelet page since the values will be different for each page.

Is there some equivalent to the <jsp:setProperty> tag in Facelets?

I am not sure if this is not possible in JSF 2.0 facelets or if I am just not looking in the right place.

Thanks

[C Bell]

Hello John,
Try using the jstl tag set, http://java.sun.com/javaee/javaserverfaces/2.0/docs/pdldocs/facelets/c/set.html, to replace your jsp:setProperty.