Retrieving other component's client ID in JSF 2.0

Question

Does JSF 2.0 have a built-in method for finding the client ID of another component? There are about a thousand client ID-related questions on SO and there are a lot of hack

Answer 1

This worked for me. I would be interested to know if it is Ok to write response like this though.

client.html

UIHelper.java

@ManagedBean(name = "UIHelper", eager = true)
@ApplicationScoped
public class UIHelper
{

public String clientId(final String id)
{
  FacesContext context = FacesContext.getCurrentInstance();
  UIViewRoot root = context.getViewRoot();
  final UIComponent[] found = new UIComponent[1];
  root.visitTree(new FullVisitContext(context), new VisitCallback()
  {
    @Override
    public VisitResult visit(VisitContext context, UIComponent component)
    {
      if (component.getId().equals(id))
      {
        found[0] = component;
        return VisitResult.COMPLETE;
      }
      return VisitResult.ACCEPT;
    }
  });
  return found[0] == null ? "" : "#" + found[0].getClientId().replace(":", "\\\\:");
}

}