How to access Component dialogs

Alexis — Wed, 19 Feb 2014 10:21:51 -0500

Hello Ivy Team

I have some questions concerning the access of Components data, methods and updating in ivy-jsf.
Some points might not been implemented yet so consider these also as ideas or wishes.

In my example there is a main dialog which implements 2 components:

<ic:ch.itpoint.mms.care.ItemEdit startMethod="startNew" callback="#{logic}" />
<ic:ch.itpoint.mms.show.ItemList startMethod="start" />

There are two targets I want to reach:

Creating a Item or editing it should update the ItemList
Selecting an Item in the List should open the Object in the Item-Editor

One restriction is, that all that should be build up like described with components. Saving events will be handled first in the component, then in the main-page. Another might be to preferably stay away from self made javascripts.

I achieved, that I can save the Item and call a method (itemSaved()) via the callback on the main-page at the same time:

<p:commandButton value="#{ivy.cms.co('/lables/save')} - Callback"
actionListener="#{logic.saveItem}" action="#{cc.attrs.callback.itemSaved}" ajax="true" icon="ui-icon-disk" update="itemForm,:j_id_s:itemsListeForm" />

That's allready something, but I didn't find any way to access the List-Component.
In the end I would see these possibilities:

Having access to components methods / events, which also provoke an update in the view.
Having access to components data from main page. And some kind of dataChangeListener to update the view.

Two possible solutions I see:

An object of the compoenent in jsf (with possible access in the logic)
Same object in the logic (same as ULC-components)

An Update could exceptionally be fired by the update-Attribute :j_id_s:itemsListeForm in the brother-component (I don't know if it would work)

Thank you for your support!

Greetings
Alexis Suter

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How to access Component dialogs