Dynamic Id's in JSF/Seam

Question

Got a little problem with a Seam application I\'m working on and I was wondering if anyone knows a way round it. I\'ve got a form in my application that uses AJAX to show c

Answer 1

I'm assuming you want to control the ID of your input component so you can reference it later in Javascript?

Since you can't set the ID via an expression, I do this:

Then later in the code:

In the pagecode:

protected HtmlInputText getWhatever() {
    if (whatever == null) {
        whatever = (HtmlInputText) findComponentInRoot("whatever");
    }
}

public String getWhateverClientId() {
    return getWhatever().getClientId(getFacesContext());
}

Hope that helps.