In my JSF2 application I have a phaselistener that needs to be executed before RENDER_RESPONSE but after JSF has built the viewroot.
First, what I did is register my PhaseListener in faces-config. The listener then gets called, but when I perform the beforePhase, getViewRoot().getChildren()
is still empty.
Secondly, I found how to do this by adding the following on my xhtml pages:
<f:phaseListener type="be.application.PolicyController" />
This works fine, but adding this to each of my pages would be extremely tedious.
Hence I'm looking for a possibility to do this once for my application.
Any ideas how this can be done?
Register a system event listener for the PreRenderViewEvent
in faces-config:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<faces-config xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-facesconfig_2_0.xsd"
version="2.0">
<application>
<system-event-listener>
<system-event-listener-class>test.PreRenderViewListener</system-event-listener-class>
<system-event-class>javax.faces.event.PreRenderViewEvent</system-event-class>
</system-event-listener>
</application>
</faces-config>
Example of a listener:
public class PreRenderViewListener implements SystemEventListener {
@Override
public void processEvent(SystemEvent event) throws AbortProcessingException {
UIViewRoot root = (UIViewRoot) event.getSource();
System.out.println(root.getChildCount());
}
@Override
public boolean isListenerForSource(Object source) {
return true;
}
}
using
<f:phaseListener type="de.xxx.listener.HeaderControlPhaseListener" />
in a template (facelets) works fine for me. Or are there any problems I'm not aware of..?
(I hated this faces-config.xml thingy in jsf and try to avoid it completely in jsf2)