Custom converter in JSF 2 with arguments

Question

I\'m trying to implement a custom truncate converter, which truncates a string at a given index and adds a continuation symbol. The converter works fine, only when i hard co

Answer 1

You may take a look at JSF2.0 sources. For example DateTimeConverter... JSF sources available here in svn reposotory: https://svn.java.net/svn/mojarra~svn/trunk

IMO creating such converter is not easy. It also required to create converter tag to register converter.

Other way to pass some data to converter is attibutes. So You can write

Than call to component.getAttributes().get("truncateIndex"); in converter code.