Indeed, the difference is that ui:repeat with offset/size absolutely needs
a backing datamodel, while in some cases you just want to say with a render
time component:
repeat the body 10 times without any notion of a datamodel involved.
On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 1:19 PM, Bauke Scholtz <balusc_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> https://java.net/jira/browse/JAVASERVERFACES_SPEC_PUBLIC-1102
>
> I think this is incorrectly closed. The ui:repeat offset/size does
> definitely not have the same behavior as c:forEach begin/end. The ui:repeat
> still checks the DataModel#isRowAvailable() during every iteration. So,
> effectively it won't iterate at all when only offset and size attributes
> are provided.
>
> Any objections if I reopen it?
>
> Cheers, B
>
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