In JSF, “f:setPropertyActionListener” tag is allow you to set a value directly into the property of your backing bean. For example,
<h:commandButton action="#{user.outcome}" value="Submit">
<f:setPropertyActionListener target="#{user.username}" value="mkyong" />
</h:commandButton>
In above JSF code snippets, if the button is clicked, it will set the “mkyong” value to the “username” property via setUsername() method.
@ManagedBean(name="user")
@SessionScoped
public class UserBean{
public String username;
public void setUsername(String username) {
this.username = username;
}
}
JSF f:setPropertyActionListener example
Ok, let’s see a full example in JSF 2.0.
1. Managed Bean
A super simple managed bean named “user”.
package com.mkyong;
import javax.faces.bean.ManagedBean;
import javax.faces.bean.SessionScoped;
@ManagedBean(name="user")
@SessionScoped
public class UserBean{
public String username;
public String outcome(){
return "result";
}
public String getUsername() {
return username;
}
public void setUsername(String username) {
this.username = username;
}
}
2. JSF Page
JSF page to show the use of “f:setPropertyActionListener” to set a value “mkyong” directly into the property “username” of your backing bean.
default.xhtml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
xmlns:h="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html"
xmlns:f="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core"
>
<h:body>
<h1>JSF 2 setPropertyActionListener example</h1>
<h:form id="form">
<h:commandButton action="#{user.outcome}" value="Click Me">
<f:setPropertyActionListener target="#{user.username}" value="mkyong" />
</h:commandButton>
</h:form>
</h:body>
</html>
result.xhtml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
xmlns:h="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html"
>
<h:body>
<h1>JSF 2 setPropertyActionListener example</h1>
#{user.username}
</h:body>
</html>
3. Demo
Here’s the result after button is clicked.
Download Source Code
Download It – JSF-2-setPropertyActionListener-Example.zip (9KB)
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thanks for your help
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Hi,
Thanks for the post. It helped me a lot. I tried your example in my application and on clicking the command button for the first time I am not getting the value and but on subsequent clicks i am getting. What wrong am i doing
Sorry my codes didn’t show…
here is the code
<h:inputText name="title" value="#{movie.title}" size="30"/>Thank you!
I have a question on how to save value that I got on result.xhtml.
I am using
after this code, I want to grab this title and save it into my DB. I looked into HttpServletRequest request = (HttpServletRequest)FacesContext.getCurrentInstance().getExternalContext().getRequest();
But luck….please help me
Thank you
How to call f:setpropertyListener before actionListener if we don’t want to submit page but want to set property value before calling actionListener
Hi, my
are
… How can I do in taht case?
🙂
Never mind, I did it with a
object type.
Thanks anyway. 🙂
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thanks.
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Hi,
This is very good when you have session scope.
What happens if I want in one page to show a list of let’s say users, and upon clicking on a specific user to redirect to a different page that is handled by a request scope backing bean? how can I do it?
Thanks in advance.
Hi mk:
I am trying to do something just like this but my main problem is I don’t want to hard code the value attribute in the
I have a value in #{param.report} and it displays on the page 1 when I display my page, then what I want to do is send it to the backing bean by saying:
then on page 2 say #{controls.param1} and have the value show on page 2
it is blank though, however if I replace the value with some simple text it displays on page 2 fine, is it impossible to send a variable through f:setPropertyActionListener?
looks like the code I typed got removed
f:setpropertyActionListener target=”#{controls.param1} value=”#{param.report}”
fails
f:setpropertyActionListener target=”#{controls.param1} value=”boo!”
works
I am having the same issue. i need to send a global javascript variable in the value of the actionlistener, but it wants a literal value.
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