Adding custom attribute (HTML5) support to JSF 2.0 UIInput component

Question

I am trying to write a renderer which would process the placeholder attribute on an component. I headed to this path after read

Answer 1

You can just override ResponseWriters startElement method, that method is only called once and then you can restore to the original responsewriter object.

import javax.faces.context.*;
import java.io.IOException;

public class InputRenderer extends com.sun.faces.renderkit.html_basic.TextRenderer{

      // Put all of the attributes you want to render here...
      private static final String[] ATTRIBUTES = {"required","placeholder"};

    @Override
    protected void getEndTextToRender(FacesContext context,
            UIComponent component, String currentValue) throws IOException {
        final ResponseWriter originalResponseWriter = context.getResponseWriter();
        context.setResponseWriter(new ResponseWriterWrapper() {

            @Override
// As of JSF 1.2 this method is now public.
            public ResponseWriter getWrapped() {
                return originalResponseWriter;
            }   

            @Override
            public void startElement(String name, UIComponent component)
                    throws IOException {
                super.startElement(name, component);
if ("input".equals(name)) {
  for (String attribute : ATTRIBUTES)
  {
    Object value = component.getAttributes().get(attribute);
    if (value != null)
    {
      super.writeAttribute(attribute,value,attribute);
} 
  }
}   
        });
        super.getEndTextToRender(context, component, currentValue);
        context.setResponseWriter(originalResponseWriter); // Restore original writer.
    }



}