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This is the master POM file for Oracle's Implementation of the JSF 2.2 Specification.
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package javax.faces.view;
import java.util.Collection;
import java.util.Collections;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;
import javax.faces.component.UIViewParameter;
import javax.faces.component.UIViewRoot;
import javax.faces.component.UIComponent;
import javax.faces.context.FacesContext;
/**
* ViewMetadata
is
* reponsible for extracting and providing view parameter metadata from
* VDL views. Because {@link ViewDeclarationLanguage#getViewMetadata}
* is required to return null
for JSP views and
* non-null
for views authored in Facelets for JSF 2, this
* specification only applys to Facelets for JSF 2.
*
* @since 2.0
*/
public abstract class ViewMetadata {
/**
*
* @return the view ID for which this ViewMetadata
instance
* was created
*/
public abstract String getViewId();
/**
* Creates a new {@link UIViewRoot}
* containing only view parameter metadata. The processing of
* building this UIViewRoot
with metadata should not
* cause any events to be published to the application. The
* implementation must call {@link FacesContext#setProcessingEvents}
* passing false
as the argument, at the beginning of
* the method, and pass true
to the same method at the
* end. The implementation must ensure that this happens regardless
* of ant exceptions that may be thrown.
*
* @param context the {@link FacesContext} for the current request
* @return a UIViewRoot
containing only view parameter metadata
* (if any)
*/
public abstract UIViewRoot createMetadataView(FacesContext context);
/**
* Utility method to extract view
* metadata from the provided {@link UIViewRoot}.
*
* @param root the {@link UIViewRoot} from which the metadata will
* be extracted from
*
* @return a Collection
of {@link UIViewParameter}
* instances. If the view has no metadata, the collection will be
* empty.
*/
public static Collection getViewParameters(UIViewRoot root) {
Collection params;
UIComponent metadataFacet = root.getFacet(UIViewRoot.METADATA_FACET_NAME);
if (metadataFacet == null) {
params = Collections.emptyList();
} else {
params = new ArrayList();
List children = metadataFacet.getChildren();
int len = children.size();
for (int i = 0; i < len; i++) {
UIComponent c = children.get(i);
if (c instanceof UIViewParameter) {
params.add((UIViewParameter) c);
}
}
}
return params;
}
}