Getting value of radio button to JSTL c:if

[Drew Jonas]

I have

<h:selectOneRadio id= "gSelect">
   <f:selectItem id= "one" itemlabel="abc" itemValue ="ABC"/>
   <f:selectItem id= "two" itemlabel="xyz" itemValue ="XYZ"/>
</h:selectOneRadio>

c:if test ="when radio selection equals abc"
do stuff

need help with the c:if test

[Dave Tolls]

Where are you expecting this if test to be done?

[Drew Jonas]

I want to check to see which radio button was check and grab that value to be used for a property in a bean on submit

[Drew Jonas]

The if test is on same jsp as radio

[Jesper de Jong]

c:if is probably not the best way to do whatever exactly you want to do. In fact, it's better to not use the JSTL tag libraries in JSF at all (certainly not if you are using a newer JSF version).

Why not bind the value of the selectOneRadio component to a property of one of your beans:

<h:selectOneRadio id="gSelect" value=#{myBean.someProperty}">
    <f:selectItem id= "one" itemlabel="abc" itemValue ="ABC"/> 
    <f:selectItem id= "two" itemlabel="xyz" itemValue ="XYZ"/>
</h:selectOneRadio>

That way, whenever the page is submitted, the 'someProperty' property of bean 'myBean' will automatically be set to the selected radio button value ("ABC" or "XYZ"). If you need more logic, you can put that in your Java code in beans instead of in your Facelets pages. Beans are the right place to program business logic.