Find component by ID in JSF

Question

I want to find some UIComponent from managed bean by the id that I have provided.

I have written the following code:

private UIComponen         


        

Answer 1

Maybe it's not possible. The FacesContext.getCurrentInstance().getViewRoot().findComponent(id) method returns only one UIComponent. The ViewRoot is constructed as a tree so if you have two forms in the view, each one with a component with id="text", they will have it's parent components added to the id so they won't conflict. If you put the two id="text" components within the same form, you will have java.lang.IllegalStateException thrown.

If you want to find all components with the searched id, you could write a method that implements:

List foundComponents = new ArrayList();
for(UIComponent component: FacesContext.getCurrentInstance().getViewRoot().getChildren()) {
    if(component.getId().contains("activityDescription")){
        foundComponents.add(component);
    }
}

Or if you want to find the first occurrence:

UIComponent foundComponent;
for(UIComponent component: FacesContext.getCurrentInstance().getViewRoot().getChildren()) {
    if(component.getId().contains("activityDescription")){
        foundComponent = component;
        break;
    }
}