How to build a control programmatically?
lotus-domino, xpages
Solution
The answer I think your looking for is implement the FacesComponent Interface There is detailed instructions that Keith Strickland put out on his blog:
http://xprentice.gbs.com/A55BAC/keithstric.nsf/default.xsp?documentId=82770C11FA7B9B21852579C100581766
It uses the initBeforeContents, buildContents, and initAfterContents methods to allow you to add children.
Hope that helps.
Problem
I have custom control written in Java. For the sake of simplicity lets assume that it looks like this: ``` public class HelloworldControl extends UIComponentBase { @Override public void decode(FacesContext context) { String cid = this.getClientId(context); ... super.decode(context); } @Override public void encodeBegin(FacesContext context) throws IOException { ResponseWriter writer = context.getResponseWriter(); writer.writeText("Hello world!", this); // I want a view!! } @Override public void encodeEnd(FacesContext context) throws IOException { ResponseWriter writer = context.getResponseWriter(); ... } public void restoreState(FacesContext context, Object state) { Object values[] = (Object[]) state; ... super.restoreState(context, values[0]); } public Object saveState(FacesContext context) { Object values[] = ... } } ``` I would like to add programatically child control to it. For example I would like a child view control to render a view just under the Hellow world text. How can i do this? What is the standard procedure to build dynamically a control? To put it simply - I want programmatically build a hierarchy of standard components and I want to attach it to my control.