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PrimeFaces Beginner's Guide

You're reading from   PrimeFaces Beginner's Guide The perfect introduction to PrimeFaces, this tutorial will take you step by step through all the great features, ranging from form-creation to sophisticated navigation systems. All you need are some basic JSF and jQuery skills.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2013
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781783280698
Length 378 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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K. Siva Prasad Reddy K. Siva Prasad Reddy
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Introduction to PrimeFaces FREE CHAPTER 2. Introducing Sample Application TechBuzz 3. Using PrimeFaces Common Utility Components 4. Introducing the PrimeFaces Client Side Validation Framework 5. Introducing Text Input Components 6. Working with Selection Input Components 7. Introducing Advanced Input Components 8. Working with Data Components 9. Introducing Advanced Data Visualization Components 10. Working with Layout Components 11. Introducing Navigation Components 12. Drawing Charts 13. Using PrimeFaces Themes Index

Time for action – using the Rating component

Let us see how we can use the Rating component with 10 stars and use the rate and cancel AJAX event listeners:

  1. Create a Rating component and register the AJAX listeners for the rate and cancel events, using the following code:
    <p:growl id="growl"/>
    <p:rating value="#{postController.selectedPost.rating}" stars="10">  
      <p:ajax event="rate" listener="#{postController.handlePostRating}" update="growl" />  
      <p:ajax event="cancel" listener="#{postController.handlePostRatingCancel}" update="growl" />  
    </p:rating> 
  2. Implement the event listener methods:
    @ManagedBean
    @RequestScoped
    public class PostController 
    {
      private Post selectedPost;  
        //setters and getters
    
        public void handlePostRating(RateEvent rateEvent) {
          Integer rate = (Integer) rateEvent.getRating();
            JSFUtils.addInfoMessage("Post rated:...
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