Disabling h:commandButtons in d:dataTables

[Dimitris Karageorgopoulos]

Dear all,

I use JSF 1.1
I have a dataTable that displays rows of data from a managed bean function of the type

public List<MyObject> getListOfDate()

Each row displayed is actually an h:commandButton. Inside the ActionListener of the commandButton, after some business specific actions, I want to disable the button

public void clickActionEvent(ActionEvent event){
if (event.getComponent() instanceof HtmlCommandButton){

//Business code


HtmlCommandButton rowButton = (HtmlCommandButton)event.getComponent();
rowButton.setDisabled(true);

}
}

However, this code instead of disabling the row button I click, it disables it all the buttons in all rows of the dataTable.

Is this default behaviour?

Is there any JSF way I can overcome it ?

[Tim Holloway]

If you add a boolean column to your datamodel row object you can use that to control enable/disable using the following syntax:

<h:commandButton value="#{rowItem.buttonText}" disabled="#{rowItem.buttonDisabled}" action="..."/>

No JSF-specific code is required.