Output curly brace in JSF h:outputText - jsf

I want to use the following EL inside a custom component:
<ui:param name="valueAfter"
value="#{not empty valueAfter ? valueAfter : false}" />
<h:outputText
value="#{x.label}#{valueAfter == true ? {x.value} : ''}" />
This does not work as I cannot output the curly braces around x.value but now I am looking for a good way to actually output those.

Try this:
<h:outputText value="#{x.label"}/>
<h:outputText value="{#{x.value}}" rendered="#{valueAfter}"/>

Here you go -In case you are using EL 2 (I think), one line with one h:outputText solution thanks to the .concat()
<h:outputText value="#{x.label}#{valueAfter == true?'{'.concat(x.value).concat('}'):''}" />

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Using single quotes within a string in EL

I need to write this string on JSF code :
rendered="#{person.value.equals('it's him')}"
My problem is with the ' character.
Thank's for your help.
You can do the following:
<h:outputText value="My text with \'single quotes\' and \"double quotes\"" />
So:
rendered="#{person.value.equals('it\'s him')}"
Look at this:
<af:outputText inlineStyle="font-weight:bold;" value="#{viewControllerBundle.BEAN_ONLINE_VARIABLE_PASS_1}" id="ot22p_" rendered="#{empty pageFlowScope.sensor.payed and pageFlowScope.sensor.down eq 'false'}"/>

Escaped itemLabel for p:selectBooleanCheckbox

I have a question regarding the primefaces component p:selectBooleanCheckbox.
I have following code, which renders a simple boolean checkbox with its label.
<p:selectBooleanCheckbox id="agb" value="#{mobiFormF000001Model.agbChecked}" itemLabel="#{msgs['agb']}">
<f:ajax render="submit" />
</p:selectBooleanCheckbox>
Now my problem is, that in the label i have an URL, which now is escaped and my label looks like this:
Ich bestätige, dass ich die Angaben zum Datenschutz gelesen habe und diese akzeptiere.
Is there a way to get that part rendered as link?
Why don't you simply use <h:outputText> that has the escape property?
<p:selectBooleanCheckbox id="agb" value="#{mobiFormF000001Model.agbChecked}" >
<f:ajax render="submit" />
</p:selectBooleanCheckbox>
<h:outputText escape="false" value="#{msgs['agb']}" />
You can link a p:outputLabel to the checkbox and put any content in its body:
<p:selectBooleanCheckbox value="#{bean.value}"/>
<p:outputLabel for="#previous">
I agree to the terms and conditions
</p:outputLabel>

Concatenating strings within EL expression defined in an attribute of a facelets tag

I need to write an EL expression for an attribute which goes something like this:
#{cc.attrs.appreciatedByCurrentUser ? (cc.attrs.count +'<br/>'+ (cc.attrs.count-1)) : ((cc.attrs.count+1) +'<br/>'+ cc.attrs.count)}
Now the problem is that this gives an error as strings cannot be concatenated, the way I am doing it. So how can I rectify this?
I'm using JSF 2.0 with facelets.
EDIT :
I'm resolving the issue using the following inline javascript
<script type="text/javascript">
var count=#{cc.attrs.count};
document.write(#{cc.attrs.appreciatedByCurrentUser} ? (count-1) +'<br/>'+count : count+'<br/>'+ (count+1));
</script>
Can you think of any issue with this?
It is possible to concatenate Strings in EL using the java.lang.String.concat(String) method. Thus your code could look like:
<h:outputText value="#{cc.attrs.appreciatedByCurrentUser ? (''.concat(cc.attrs.count).concat('<br/>').concat(cc.attrs.count-1)) : (''.concat((cc.attrs.count+1)).concat('<br/>').concat(cc.attrs.count))}" escape="false" />
In this particular case however I would go with one of the options that Mr BalusC had suggested because the code above doesn't look quite elegant. In some cases knowing this technique could be useful, though.
I would hardly recommend using javascript as a workaround here.
String concatenation in EL is only possible by just inlining in the expression. The + operator is in EL exclusively a sum operator. Further, < and > are invalid characters in XML attributes, so you have to escape them (and instruct <h:outputText> to not escape them once again by escape="false"):
<h:outputText value="#{cc.attrs.count}<br/>#{cc.attrs.count-1}" escape="false" rendered="#{cc.attrs.appreciatedByCurrentUser}" />
<h:outputText value="#{cc.attrs.count+1}<br/>#{cc.attrs.count}" escape="false" rendered="#{!cc.attrs.appreciatedByCurrentUser}" />
Alternatively, you can also use <c:set> to alias the expression:
<c:set var="appreciated" value="#{cc.attrs.count}<br/>#{cc.attrs.count-1}" />
<c:set var="notAppreciated" value="#{cc.attrs.count+1}<br/>#{cc.attrs.count}" />
<h:outputText value="#{cc.attrs.appreciatedByCurrentUser ? appreciated : notAppreciated}" escape="false" />
This is the only thing i can come up with.
<h:panelGroup rendered="#{cc.attrs.appreciatedByCurrentUser}">
<h:outputText value="#{(cc.attrs.count)}" style="display:block;" />
<h:outputText value="#{(cc.attrs.count-1)}" />
</h:panelGroup>
<h:panelGroup rendered="#{not cc.attrs.appreciatedByCurrentUser}">
<h:outputText value="#{(cc.attrs.count+1)}" style="display:block;" />
<h:outputText value="#{(cc.attrs.count)}" />
</h:panelGroup>
Putting <br> in a value attribute will always throw errors in JSF, so you'll have to use display:block.

JSF: h:outputText; how to show a dash when the value is empty string?

I'm using h:outputText tags to display readonly data. Ex:
<h:outputText value="Phone Number:" />
<h:outputText value="#{userHandler.user.phoneNumber}" />
When "phoneNumber" is an empty string or a null, I want to display a dash "-" as the value.
Is there any easy way to do this maybe with expression language or something?
BTW, I thought about adding methods to the User class like getPhoneNumberDisplayText() that could do the check internally, but I since it's a view issue, I'd rather keep the code in the JSF page.
<h:outputText value="#{userHandler.user.phoneNumber != null
? userHandler.user.phoneNumber : '-'}" />
Or, you could make a new outputText:
<h:outputText rendered="#{userHandler.user.phoneNumber == null}" value="-" />

JSF Compound EL expression

I am trying to validate a inputText box based on the selection of a CheckBox as shown below.
< <h:inputText required="#{param[facesContext.externalContext.response.namespace'form:checkBoxId']}"> >.
The issue is as you see, the component Ids are dynamic, I should be able to use facesContext.externalContext.response.namespace inside the EL expression. Is there a solution to it, appreciate any suggestions.
Thanks.
Just bind the UIComponent to a page scoped property and access its getValue() method.
<h:selectBooleanCheckbox binding="#{checkbox}" />
<h:inputText required="#{not empty checkbox.value and checkbox.value}" />
As to the dynamicness, you can also go around by just giving it a fixed id.
<h:form id="form">
<h:selectBooleanCheckbox id="checkbox" />
<h:inputText required="#{not empty param['form:checkbox'] and param['form:checkbox']}" />
</h:form>
It's however only ugly when it gets lengthy.

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