Primefaces Calendar - disabling specific dates usi

Question

so from my previous question, Disable specific dates on p:calendar, i know that i can disable specific dates using Javascript like this:

  var disabledDays = ["5-15-2013", "6-23-2013"];
  function disableAllTheseDays(date) {
    var m = date.getMonth(), d = date.getDate(), y = date.getFullYear();
    for (i = 0; i < disabledDays.length; i++) {
        if($.inArray((m+1) + '-' + d + '-' + y,disabledDays) != -1) {
            return [false];
        }
    }
    return [true];
}

with:

<p:calendar id="pfdate" navigator="true" pattern="MM-dd-yyyy" 
      value="#{day}" BeforeShowDay="disableAllTheseDays" showOn="button"/>

However, my question is that how can i store dates in disabledDays array using EL expressions? I need to do this because the dates that i need to disable varies. Disabling dates needs to be dynamic. If i can't do this with EL expressions, is there anyways to use an array that will have dynamic data?

Thanks

Answer 1

One possibility is just converting the value in a bean (["5-15-2013", "6-23-2013"]), and put it directly in the Javascript code:

var disabledDays = #{myBean.disabledDays};

It's not the cleanest one, but the easiest. Another possibility is just having the list of strings in the bean and use <ui:repeat> to print it as a comma separated list.