Big +1. Finally support for Set (and thus also Map#entrySet()) in
ui:repeat. Would be even more cool if it transparently recognizes Map like
c:forEach so we don't need value="#{bean.map.entrySet()}" everytime.
Cheers, B
On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 6:11 PM, arjan tijms <arjan.tijms_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> As a relatively small thing that was left open from 2.2; issue 1103
> deals with extending the support that 2.2 added for Collection in
> UIData to UIRepeat, and additionally upgrading the support for both to
> Iterable.
>
> I created a changebundle for that here:
> https://java.net/jira/secure/attachment/54434/changebundle.txt
>
> I think it's a fairly low impact change; the test for iterable is the
> last test, so for UIData the existing code will hit first for List and
> then Collection if any such types are passed in, and only if the type
> is none of these, but is Iterable, will the Iterable test hit and use
> a new IterableDataModel.
>
> For UIRepeat there never was Collection support, so there the code
> will hit if a Collection is passed in, as well as when an Iterable is
> passed in.
>
> As for the implementation code, the IterableDataModel that is used has
> been field tested in OmniFaces for some time now.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Kind regards,
> Arjan Tijms
>