JSF: Accessing Bean from Validator via field

Question

I have a JSF validator that checks whether a Container Number string conforms to the ISO-6346 specficiation.

It works fine, however I need to add some conditional p

Answer 1

Using the <f:attribute> you can pass a Bean to the validator and retrieve it from the component as a value expression.

So my input is like this (must be using and not the validator attribute on the ) :

And my validator class:

public void validate(FacesContext context, UIComponent component, Object value) throws ValidatorException {
  String containerNumber = (String)value;
  Object containerBean = component.getValueExpression("containerBean").getValue(context.getELContext());

  if(containerBean instanceof BeanA) {
    //do this
  }