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package javax.faces.webapp;
import javax.el.ELContext;
import javax.faces.component.UIComponent;
import javax.faces.context.FacesContext;
import javax.servlet.jsp.tagext.JspTag;
import java.util.logging.Logger;
/**
* UIComponentTagBase
is the base class
* for all JSP tags that correspond to a {@link
* javax.faces.component.UIComponent} instance in the view. This base
* class allows a single view to be described in a JSP page consisting
* of both {@link UIComponentELTag} and {@link UIComponentTag}
* instances.
*/
public abstract class UIComponentTagBase extends Object implements JspTag {
protected static final Logger log = Logger.getLogger("javax.faces.webapp",
"javax.faces.LogStrings");
/**
* Return the {@link FacesContext} instance for the current
* request. This value will be non-null
only from the
* beginning of doStartTag()
through the end of
* doEndTag()
for each tag instance.
*/
protected abstract FacesContext getFacesContext();
/**
* Return the {@link ELContext} for the {@link FacesContext} for
* this request.
*
* This is a convenience for
* getFacesContext().getELContext()
.
*/
protected ELContext getELContext() {
FacesContext fc = getFacesContext();
ELContext result = null;
if (null != fc) {
result = fc.getELContext();
}
return result;
}
/**
* Add the component identifier of the specified {@link UIComponent}
* to the list of component identifiers created or located by nested
* {@link UIComponentTag}s processing this request.
*
* @param child New child whose identifier should be added
*/
protected abstract void addChild(UIComponent child);
/**
* Add the facet name of the specified facet to the list of
* facet names created or located by nested {@link UIComponentTag}s
* processing this request.
*
* @param name Facet name to be added
*/
protected abstract void addFacet(String name);
/**
* Set the component identifier for the component corresponding
* to this tag instance. If the argument begins with {@link
* javax.faces.component.UIViewRoot#UNIQUE_ID_PREFIX} throw an
* IllegalArgumentException
*
* @param id The new component identifier. This may not start with
* {@link javax.faces.component.UIViewRoot#UNIQUE_ID_PREFIX}.
*
* @throws IllegalArgumentException if the argument is
* non-null
and starts with {@link
* javax.faces.component.UIViewRoot#UNIQUE_ID_PREFIX}.
*/
public abstract void setId(String id);
/**
* Return the component type for the component that is or will be
* bound to this tag. This value can be passed to
* {@link javax.faces.application.Application#createComponent} to create
* the {@link UIComponent} instance for this tag. Subclasses must
* override this method to return the appropriate value.
*/
public abstract String getComponentType();
/**
* Return the rendererType
property that selects the
* Renderer
to be used for encoding this component, or
* null
to ask the component to render itself directly.
* Subclasses must override this method to return the appropriate value.
*
*/
public abstract String getRendererType();
/**
* Return the {@link UIComponent} instance that is associated with
* this tag instance. This method is designed to be used by tags nested
* within this tag, and only returns useful results between the
* execution of doStartTag()
and doEndTag()
* on this tag instance.
*/
public abstract UIComponent getComponentInstance();
/**
* Return true
if we dynamically created a new component
* instance during execution of this tag. This method is designed to be
* used by tags nested within this tag, and only returns useful results
* between the execution of doStartTag()
and
* doEndTag()
on this tag instance.
*/
public abstract boolean getCreated();
/**
* Return the index of the next child to be added as a child of
* this tag. The default implementation maintains a list of created
* components and returns the size of the list.
*/
protected abstract int getIndexOfNextChildTag();
}