Seam includes a number of JSF controls that are useful for working with Seam. These are intended to complement the built-in JSF controls, and controls from other third-party libraries. We recommend JBoss RichFaces, ICEsoft ICEfaces and Apache MyFaces Trinidad tag libraries for use with Seam. We do not recommend the use of the Tomahawk tag library.
To use these tags, define the "s" namespace in your page
as follows (facelets only):
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
xmlns:s="http://jboss.org/schema/seam/taglib">
The ui example demonstrates the use of a number of these tags.
Description
A button that supports invocation of an action with control over conversation propagation. Does not submit the form.
Attributes
value— the label.action— a method binding that specified the action listener.view— the JSF view id to link to.fragment— the fragment identifier to link to.disabled— is the link disabled?propagation— determines the conversation propagation style:begin,join,nested,none,endorendRoot.pageflow— a pageflow definition to begin. (This is only useful whenpropagation="begin"orpropagation="join"is used).includePageParams— when set to false, page parameters defined inpages.xmlwill be excluded from rendering.
Usage
<s:button id="cancel"
value="Cancel"
action="#{hotelBooking.cancel}"/>
You can specify both view and
action on <s:link />.
In this case, the action will be called once the redirect to the
specified view has occurred.
The use of action listeners (including the default JSF action
listener) is not supported with <s:button />.
Description
Add the conversation id to JSF link or button (e.g.
<h:commandLink /> ,
<s:button />).
Attributes
None
Description
Add the task id to an output link (or similar JSF control),
when the task is available via #{task}.
Attributes
None.
Description
A link that supports invocation of an action with control over conversation propagation. Does not submit the form.
The use of action listeners (including the default JSF action
listener) is not supported with <s:link />.
Attributes
value— the label.action— a method binding that specified the action listener.view— the JSF view id to link to.fragment— the fragment identifier to link to.disabled— is the link disabled?propagation— determines the conversation propagation style:begin,join,nested,none,endorendRoot.pageflow— a pageflow definition to begin. (This is only useful when usingpropagation="begin"orpropagation="join".)includePageParams— when set to false, page parameters defined inpages.xmlwill be excluded from rendering.
Usage
<s:link id="register" view="/register.xhtml"
value="Register New User"/>
You can specify both view and
action on <s:link />.
In this case, the action will be called once the redirect to the
specified view has occured.
Description
Customize the conversation propagation for a command link or button (or similar JSF control). Facelets only.
Attributes
type— determines the conversation propagation style:begin,join,nested,none,endorendRoot.pageflow— a pageflow definition to begin. (This is only useful when usingpropagation="begin"orpropagation="join".)
Usage
<h:commandButton value="Apply" action="#{personHome.update}">
<s:conversationPropagation type="join" />
</h:commandButton>
Description
Specify the default action to run when the form is submitted using the enter key.
Currently you can only nest it inside buttons (e.g.
<h:commandButton />,
<a:commandButton /> or
<tr:commandButton />).
You must specify an id on the action source. You can only have one default action per form.
Attributes
None.
Usage
<h:commandButton id="foo" value="Foo" action="#{manager.foo}">
<s:defaultAction />
</h:commandButton>
Description
Perform date or time conversions in the Seam timezone.
Attributes
None.
Usage
<h:outputText value="#{item.orderDate}">
<s:convertDateTime type="both" dateStyle="full"/>
</h:outputText>
Description
Assigns an entity converter to the current component. This is useful for radio button and dropdown controls.
The converter works with any managed entity - either simple or composite. The converter should be able to find the items declared in the JSF controls on form submission, otherwise you will receive a validation error.
Attributes
None.
Configuration
You must use Seam managed transactions (see
Section 10.2, “Seam managed transactions”) with
<s:convertEntity />.
If your Managed Persistence Context isn't
called entityManager, then you need to set it
in components.xml:
<components xmlns="http://jboss.org/schema/seam/components"
xmlns:ui="http://jboss.org/schema/seam/ui">
<ui:jpa-entity-loader entity-manager="#{em}" />If you are using a Managed Hibernate Session then you need to set it in components.xml:
<components xmlns="http://jboss.org/schema/seam/components"
xmlns:ui="http://jboss.org/schema/seam/ui">
<ui:hibernate-entity-loader />
If your Managed Hibernate Session isn't
called session, then you need to set it
in components.xml:
<components xmlns="http://jboss.org/schema/seam/components"
xmlns:ui="http://jboss.org/schema/seam/ui">
<ui:hibernate-entity-loader session="#{hibernateSession}" />
If you want to use more than one entity manager with the entity
converter, you can create a copy of the entity converter for each
entity manager in components.xml - note how
the entity converter delegates to the entity loader to perform
persistence operations:
<components xmlns="http://jboss.org/schema/seam/components"
xmlns:ui="http://jboss.org/schema/seam/ui">
<ui:entity-converter name="standardEntityConverter" entity-loader="#{standardEntityLoader}" />
<ui:jpa-entity-loader name="standardEntityLoader" entity-manager="#{standardEntityManager}" />
<ui:entity-converter name="restrictedEntityConverter" entity-loader="#{restrictedEntityLoader}" />
<ui:jpa-entity-loader name="restrictedEntityLoader" entity-manager="#{restrictedEntityManager}" /><h:selectOneMenu value="#{person.continent}">
<s:selectItems value="#{continents.resultList}" var="continent"
label="#{continent.name}" />
<f:converter converterId="standardEntityConverter" />
</h:selectOneMenu>Usage
<h:selectOneMenu value="#{person.continent}" required="true">
<s:selectItems value="#{continents.resultList}" var="continent"
label="#{continent.name}"
noSelectionLabel="Please Select..."/>
<s:convertEntity />
</h:selectOneMenu>
Description
Assigns an enum converter to the current component. This is primarily useful for radio button and dropdown controls.
Attributes
None.
Usage
<h:selectOneMenu value="#{person.honorific}">
<s:selectItems value="#{honorifics}" var="honorific"
label="#{honorific.label}"
noSelectionLabel="Please select" />
<s:convertEnum />
</h:selectOneMenu>
Description
javax.faces.convert.Converter for
java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicBoolean.
Attributes
None.
Usage
<h:outputText value="#{item.valid}">
<s:convertAtomicBoolean />
</h:outputText>Description
javax.faces.convert.Converter for
java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicInteger.
Attributes
None.
Usage
<h:outputText value="#{item.id}">
<s:convertAtomicInteger />
</h:outputText>Description
javax.faces.convert.Converter for
java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicLong.
Attributes
None.
Usage
<h:outputText value="#{item.id}">
<s:convertAtomicLong />
</h:outputText>Description
Tag to nest inside an input control to validate that its parent's value is equal (or not equal!) to the referenced control's value.
Attributes
for— The id of a control to validate against.message— Message to show on failure.required— False will disable a check that a value at all is inputted in fields.messageId— Message id to show on failure.operator— What operator to use when comparing the values Valid operators are:equal— Validates that value.equals(forValue)not_equal— Validates that !value.equals(forValue)greater— Validates that ((Comparable)value).compareTo(forValue) > 0greater_or_equal— Validates that ((Comparable)value).compareTo(forValue) >= 0less— Validates that ((Comparable)value).compareTo(forValue) < 0less_or_equal— Validates that ((Comparable)value).compareTo(forValue) <= 0
Usage
<h:inputText id="name" value="#{bean.name}"/>
<h:inputText id="nameVerification" >
<s:validateEquality for="name" />
</h:inputText>Description
A non-visual control, validates a JSF input field against the bound property using Hibernate Validator.
Attributes
None.
Usage
<h:inputText id="userName" required="true"
value="#{customer.userName}">
<s:validate />
</h:inputText>
<h:message for="userName" styleClass="error" />
Description
A non-visual control, validates all child JSF input fields against their bound properties using Hibernate Validator.
Attributes
None.
Usage
<s:validateAll>
<div class="entry">
<h:outputLabel for="username">Username:</h:outputLabel>
<h:inputText id="username" value="#{user.username}"
required="true"/>
<h:message for="username" styleClass="error" />
</div>
<div class="entry">
<h:outputLabel for="password">Password:</h:outputLabel>
<h:inputSecret id="password" value="#{user.password}"
required="true"/>
<h:message for="password" styleClass="error" />
</div>
<div class="entry">
<h:outputLabel for="verify">Verify Password:</h:outputLabel>
<h:inputSecret id="verify" value="#{register.verify}"
required="true"/>
<h:message for="verify" styleClass="error" />
</div>
</s:validateAll>
Description
"Decorate" a JSF input field when validation fails or when
required="true" is set.
Attributes
template— the facelets template to use to decorate the componentenclose— if true, the template used to decorate the input field is enclosed by the element specified with the "element" attribute. By default this is a div element.element— the element to enclose the template used to decorate the input field. By default, the template is enclosed with a div element.
#{invalid} and #{required}
are available inside s:decorate;
#{required} evaluates to
true if you have set the input component being
decorated as required, and #{invalid}
evaluates to true if a validation error occurs.
Usage
<s:decorate template="edit.xhtml">
<ui:define name="label">Country:</ui:define>
<h:inputText value="#{location.country}" required="true"/>
</s:decorate>
<ui:composition xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
xmlns:ui="http://java.sun.com/jsf/facelets"
xmlns:h="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html"
xmlns:f="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core"
xmlns:s="http://jboss.org/schema/seam/taglib">
<div>
<s:label styleClass="#{invalid?'error':''}">
<ui:insert name="label"/>
<s:span styleClass="required" rendered="#{required}">*</s:span>
</s:label>
<span class="#{invalid?'error':''}">
<s:validateAll>
<ui:insert/>
</s:validateAll>
</span>
<s:message styleClass="error"/>
</div>
</ui:composition>
Description
Render a HTML <div>.
Attributes
None.
Usage
<s:div rendered="#{selectedMember == null}">
Sorry, but this member does not exist.
</s:div>
Description
Render a HTML <span>.
Attributes
title— Title for a span.
Usage
<s:span styleClass="required" rendered="#{required}" title="Small tooltip">*</s:span>
Description
A non-rendering component useful for enabling/disabling rendering of it's children.
Attributes
None.
Usage
<s:fragment rendered="#{auction.highBidder ne null}">
Current bid:
</s:fragment>
Description
"Decorate" a JSF input field with the label. The label is placed
inside the HTML <label> tag, and is
associated with the nearest JSF input component. It is often
used with <s:decorate>.
Attributes
style— The control's stylestyleClass— The control's style class
Usage
<s:label styleClass="label">
Country:
</s:label>
<h:inputText value="#{location.country}" required="true"/>
Description
Checks that the submitted value is valid Seam Text
Attributes
None.
Description
Outputs Seam Text, a rich text markup useful for blogs, wikis and other applications that might use rich text. See the Seam Text chapter for full usage.
Attributes
value— an EL expression specifying the rich text markup to render.
Usage
<s:formattedText value="#{blog.text}"/>
Example
Description
Produces a random token that is inserted into a hidden form field to help to secure JSF form posts against cross-site request forgery (XSRF) attacks. Note that the browser must have cookies enabled to submit forms that include this component.
Attributes
requireSession— indicates whether the session id should be included in the form signature, hence binding the token to the session. This value can be set to false if the "build before restore" mode of Facelets is activated (the default in JSF 2.0). (default: false)enableCookieNotice— indicates that a JavaScript check should be inserted into the page to verify that cookies are enabled in the browser. If cookies are not enabled, present a notice to the user that form posts will not work. (default: false)allowMultiplePosts— indicates whether to allow the same form to be submitted multiple times with the same signature (as long as the view does not change). This is a common need if the form is perform Ajax calls but not rerendering itself or, at the very least, the UIToken component. The preferred approach is to have the UIToken component rerendered on any Ajax call where the UIToken component would be processed. (default: false)
Usage
<h:form>
<s:token enableCookieNotice="true" requireSession="false"/>
...
</h:form>
Description
Creates a SelectItem from an enum value.
Attributes
enumValue— the string representation of the enum value.label— the label to be used when rendering theSelectItem.
Usage
<h:selectOneRadio id="radioList"
layout="lineDirection"
value="#{newPayment.paymentFrequency}">
<!-- JSF 2 way <f:converter converterId="org.jboss.seam.ui.EnumConverter" />-->
<s:convertEnum />
<s:enumItem enumValue="ONCE" label="Only Once" />
<s:enumItem enumValue="EVERY_MINUTE" label="Every Minute" />
<s:enumItem enumValue="HOURLY" label="Every Hour" />
<s:enumItem enumValue="DAILY" label="Every Day" />
<s:enumItem enumValue="WEEKLY" label="Every Week" />
</h:selectOneRadio>
Description
Creates a List<SelectItem> from a List, Set, DataModel or Array.
Attributes
value— an EL expression specifying the data that backs theList<SelectItem>var— defines the name of the local variable that holds the current object during iterationlabel— the label to be used when rendering theSelectItem. Can reference thevarvariable.itemValue— Value to return to the server if this option is selected. Optional, by default thevarobject is used. Can reference thevarvariable.disabled— if true theSelectItemwill be rendered disabled. Can reference thevarvariable.noSelectionLabel— specifies the (optional) label to place at the top of list (ifrequired="true"is also specified then selecting this value will cause a validation error).hideNoSelectionLabel— if true, thenoSelectionLabelwill be hidden when a value is selected
Usage
<h:selectOneMenu value="#{person.age}"
converter="ageConverter">
<s:selectItems value="#{ages}" var="age" label="#{age}" />
</h:selectOneMenu>
Description
Renders a file upload control. This control must be used within
a form with an encoding type of
multipart/form-data, i.e:
<h:form enctype="multipart/form-data">
For multipart requests, the Seam Multipart servlet filter must
also be configured in web.xml:
<filter>
<filter-name>Seam Filter</filter-name>
<filter-class>org.jboss.seam.servlet.SeamFilter</filter-class>
</filter>
<filter-mapping>
<filter-name>Seam Filter</filter-name>
<url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
</filter-mapping>
Configuration
The following configuration options for multipart requests may be configured in components.xml:
createTempFiles— if this option is set to true, uploaded files are streamed to a temporary file instead of in memory.maxRequestSize— the maximum size of a file upload request, in bytes.
Here's an example:
<component class="org.jboss.seam.web.MultipartFilter">
<property name="createTempFiles">true</property>
<property name="maxRequestSize">1000000</property>
</component>
Attributes
data— this value binding receives the binary file data. The receiving field should be declared as abyte[]orInputStream(required).contentType— this value binding receives the file's content type (optional).fileName— this value binding receives the filename (optional).fileSize— this value binding receives the file size (optional).accept— a comma-separated list of content types to accept, may not be supported by the browser. E.g."images/png,images/jpg","images/*".style— The control's stylestyleClass— The control's style class
Usage
<s:fileUpload id="picture" data="#{register.picture}"
accept="image/png"
contentType="#{register.pictureContentType}" />
Description
Cache the rendered page fragment using JBoss Cache. Note that
<s:cache> actually uses the instance
of JBoss Cache managed by the built-in
pojoCache component.
Attributes
key— the key to cache rendered content, often a value expression. For example, if we were caching a page fragment that displays a document, we might usekey="Document-#{document.id}".enabled— a value expression that determines if the cache should be used.region— a JBoss Cache node to use (different nodes can have different expiry policies).
Usage
<s:cache key="entry-#{blogEntry.id}" region="pageFragments">
<div class="blogEntry">
<h3>#{blogEntry.title}</h3>
<div>
<s:formattedText value="#{blogEntry.body}"/>
</div>
<p>
[Posted on 
<h:outputText value="#{blogEntry.date}">
<f:convertDateTime timezone="#{blog.timeZone}" locale="#{blog.locale}"
type="both"/>
</h:outputText>]
</p>
</div>
</s:cache>
Description
A tag that acts a file download provider. It must be alone in the JSF page. To be able to use this control, web.xml must be set up as follows.
Configuration
<servlet>
<servlet-name>Document Store Servlet</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>org.jboss.seam.document.DocumentStoreServlet</servlet-class>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>Document Store Servlet</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/seam/docstore/*</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
Attributes
data— Data that should be downloaded. May be a java.util.File, an InputStream or a byte array.fileName— Filename of the file to be servedcontentType— content type of the file to be downloadeddisposition— disposition to use. Default is inline
Usage
Here is an example on how to use the tag:
<s:resource xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
xmlns:s="http://jboss.org/schema/seam/taglib"
data="#{resources.data}"
contentType="#{resources.contentType}"
fileName="#{resources.fileName}" />
The bean named resources is some backing bean that given
some request parameters servers a specific file, see s:download.
Description
Builds a RESTful link to a <s:resource>.
Nested f:param build up the url.
src— Resource file serving files.
Attributes
<s:download src="/resources.xhtml">
<f:param name="fileId" value="#{someBean.downloadableFileId}"/>
</s:download>
Will produce something like:
http://localhost/resources.seam?fileId=1
Description
An extended <h:graphicImage> that allows
the image to be created in a Seam Component; further transforms
can be applied to the image.
All attributes for <h:graphicImage> are
supported, as well as:
Attributes
value— image to display. Can be a pathString(loaded from the classpath), abyte[], ajava.io.File, ajava.io.InputStreamor ajava.net.URL. Currently supported image formats areimage/png,image/jpeg,image/gifandimage/bmp.fileName— if not specified the served image will have a generated file name. If you want to name your file, you should specify it here. This name should be uniquecache— specify if this image should be cached. Boolean value.invalidate— specify if this image cache should be invalidated. Boolean value.cacheKey— specify unique string for a cached image.
Transformations
To apply a transform to the image, you would nest a tag specifying the transform to apply. Seam currently supports these transforms:
-
<s:transformImageSize> width— new width of the imageheight— new height of the imagemaintainRatio— iftrue, and one ofwidth/heightare specified, the image will be resized with the dimension not specified being calculated to maintain the aspect ratio.factor— scale the image by the given factor
-
<s:transformImageBlur> radius— perform a convolution blur with the given radius
-
<s:transformImageType> contentType— alter the type of the image to eitherimage/jpegorimage/png
It's easy to create your own transform - create a
UIComponent which implements
org.jboss.seam.ui.graphicImage.ImageTransform.
Inside the applyTransform()method use
image.getBufferedImage() to get the original
image and image.setBufferedImage() to set your
transformed image. Transforms are applied in the order specified
in the view.
Usage
<s:graphicImage rendered="#{auction.image ne null}"
value="#{auction.image.data}">
<s:transformImageSize width="200" maintainRatio="true"/>
</s:graphicImage>
Description
Generates the Javascript stubs required to use Seam Remoting.
Attributes
include— a comma-separated list of the component names (or fully qualified class names)for which to generate Seam Remoting Javascript stubs. See Chapter 26, Remoting for more details.
Usage
<s:remote include="customerAction,accountAction,com.acme.MyBean"/>
Seam also provides annotations to allow you to use Seam components as JSF converters and validators:
-
@Converter @Name("itemConverter")
@BypassInterceptors
@Converter
public class ItemConverter implements Converter {
@Transactional
public Object getAsObject(FacesContext context, UIComponent cmp, String value) {
EntityManager entityManager = (EntityManager) Component.getInstance("entityManager");
entityManager.joinTransaction();
// Do the conversion
}
public String getAsString(FacesContext context, UIComponent cmp, Object value) {
// Do the conversion
}
}<h:inputText value="#{shop.item}" converter="itemConverter" />
Registers the Seam component as a JSF converter. Shown here is a converter which is able to access the JPA EntityManager inside a JTA transaction, when converting the value back to it's object representation.
-
@Validator @Name("itemValidator")
@BypassInterceptors
@org.jboss.seam.annotations.faces.Validator
public class ItemValidator implements javax.faces.validator.Validator {
public void validate(FacesContext context, UIComponent cmp, Object value)
throws ValidatorException {
ItemController ItemController = (ItemController) Component.getInstance("itemController");
boolean valid = itemController.validate(value);
if (!valid) {
throw ValidatorException("Invalid value " + value);
}
}
}<h:inputText value="#{shop.item}" validator="itemValidator" />
Registers the Seam component as a JSF validator. Shown here is a validator which injects another Seam component; the injected component is used to validate the value.