I have been growing fond of JSF as of late, but was stumped by the simplest task. How do I associate some value with a link? If I was using PHP I would just append a query parameter and grab the value. But with JSF it’s all done inside our xhtml files, so how do we set a value based on the link clicked? Just use

inside the commandAction. This stores any expression into the specified bean’s property. See below for a full faces example. Each Player link will set the backing Bean’s player object before calling the action.

pageTitle appTitle content

Team Management

Affinity Management Plus (Basketball)


 #{team.teamName}  Player Summary

---

     *    
                      - 	

#{team.teamName} Game Summary

     ### Played #{game.date} against #{game.team2.teamName}

			
             ### Stats for 
                #{entry.key.name} 	

1

2

3

fouls

steals

rebounds

minutes

#{entry.value.onePointers}

#{entry.value.twoPointers}

#{entry.value.threePointers}

#{entry.value.fouls}

#{entry.value.steals}

#{entry.value.rebounds}

#{entry.value.minutesPlayed}

import java.util.Iterator; import java.util.LinkedList; import java.util.List;

import javax.faces.event.ActionEvent; import javax.faces.model.SelectItem;

import com.libertymutual.amp.basketball.DAO.GameDAO; import com.libertymutual.amp.basketball.DAO.PlayerDAO; import com.libertymutual.amp.basketball.DAO.TeamDAO;

public class TeamProcessor { //Business MOdels (used for temporary associations and datastore) private Team team= new Team(); private Player player=new Player(); private Game game=new Game(); private Statistic statistic = new Statistic();

private CumulativeStatistic cumaltiveStat= new CumulativeStatistic();

private Team team2= new Team();
private List opponents = new LinkedList();
private TeamDAO teamDAO = new TeamDAO();
private PlayerDAO playerDAO = new PlayerDAO();
private GameDAO gameDAO = new GameDAO();

//authorization
private List users= new LinkedList();
private String tmpName="";
private String tmpPass="";
private boolean isAuthorized=false;


//expose properties to jsf
public Game getGame() {
	return game;
}

public void setGame(Game game) {
	this.game = game;
}

public Statistic getStatistic() {
	return statistic;
}

public void setStatistic(Statistic statistic) {
	this.statistic = statistic;
}

public List getUsers() {
	return users;
}

public void setUsers(List users) {
	this.users = users;
}

public String getTmpName() {
	return tmpName;
}

public void setTmpName(String tmpName) {
	this.tmpName = tmpName;
}

public String getTmpPass() {
	return tmpPass;
}

public void setTmpPass(String tmpPass) {
	this.tmpPass = tmpPass;
}

public Player getPlayer() {
	return player;
}

public void setPlayer(Player player) {
	this.player = player;
}

public  Team getTeam() {
	return team;
}

public void setTeam(Team team) {
	this.team = team;
}

public void setTeam2(Team team2) {
	this.team2 = team2;
}

public Team getTeam2() {
	return team2;
}

public List getOpponents() {
	return opponents;
}

public void setOpponents(List opponents) {
	this.opponents = opponents;
}

public TeamProcessor(){
	// set valid users
	User eddie = new User();
	eddie.setName("eddie");
	eddie.setPassword("1234");
	users.add(eddie);
	
	
	opponents = new LinkedList();
    for (Team team : teamDAO.list()) {
        opponents.add(new SelectItem(team,team.getTeamName()));
    }


}

/*
 * 
 * Action Methods
 */

public String processTeam(){
	if(!isAuthorized)return "invalid-login";
	String result= "success";
	return result ;
}

public String processPlayer(){
	System.out.println(">>> processPlayer");
	if(!isAuthorized)return "invalid-login";
	String result= "error";
	if( team.addPlayer(player)){
        result="success";
        playerDAO.addPlayer(player);
        System.out.println("Added: "+player.getName());
	}
	player=new Player();
	System.out.println("<<< processPlayer");
	
	return result;
}

public String processPlayerAndAddAnother(){	
	System.out.println(">>> processPlayerAndAddAnother");
	if(!isAuthorized)return "invalid-login";
	processPlayer() ;
	System.out.println("<<< processPlayerAndAddAnother");
	
	return null;
}
public String processPlayerDoner(){	
	return "success";
}


public String loginAction(){
	String result="invalid-login";
	for(User user : users){
        if(tmpName.equals(user.getName())
                &&
        tmpPass.equals(user.getPassword())){
            result = "success";
            isAuthorized=true;
        }
	}
	return result;
}

public String processGame(){
	System.out.println(">>> processGame");
	String result="error";
	game.setTeam1(this.team);
	game.setTeam2(team2);
	if(team.addGame(game)){
        gameDAO.addGame(game);
        result="success";
        game=new Game();
	}
	
	System.out.println("<<< processGame:"+result);
	
	return result;
}

public String processGameStats(){
	
	game.addGameStat(player, statistic);
	System.out.println(">>> processGameStats: " + game.getTeam2().getTeamName()+player.getName()+statistic.getFouls());
	player=new Player();
	statistic=new Statistic();
	game=new Game();
	return null;
	
}

public String finishGameStats(){
	processGameStats();
	return "success";
}

public String preparePlayerAction(){
	String result = "error";
	System.out.println("playerAction>>>");

	System.out.println("Player:"+player.toString());
	System.out.println("team:"+team.toString());
	for( Game game : team.getGames()){
        Statistic stat = game.getGameStatistic(player);
        if (stat != null){
            cumaltiveStat.addStatistic(stat);
        }
        result="success";
	}		
	System.out.println("CS:"+cumaltiveStat.getAverage(cumaltiveStat.getFouls()));
	System.out.println("playerAction<<<");
	return result;
}

public void preparePlayerListener(ActionEvent ae){
	System.out.println("playerListener>>>");
	for (Iterator iterator = ae.getComponent().getAttributes().entrySet().iterator(); iterator.hasNext();) {
        Object o = iterator.next();
        System.out.println(o.toString());
		
	}
	System.out.println("Player:"+player.toString());
	System.out.println("playerListener<<<");
}

public CumulativeStatistic getCumaltiveStat() {
	return cumaltiveStat;
}

public void setCumaltiveStat(CumulativeStatistic cumaltiveStat) {
	this.cumaltiveStat = cumaltiveStat;
}

}