[JSF 1.2] problem with c:forEach inside h:panelGrid

Question

I have a list of beans that I want to display in table of 3 columns, and let the rows increase according to the size of my list.
The following code works as expected:
<h:panelGrid columns="3">
     <c:forEach items="#{mylist}" var="row">
          <h:outputText value="#{row.name}" />
     </c:forEach>
</h:panelGrid>This also works:
<h:panelGrid columns="3">
     <c:forEach items="#{mylist}" var="row">
          <h:panelGroup>
     Name: <h:outputText value="#{row.name}" />
          </h:panelGroup>
     </c:forEach>
</h:panelGrid>But when I put two outputText components inside the panelGroup I get duplicate ID in view error.
Any suggestions?

Answer 1

I have also seen something similar. Oddly enough, you seem to be able to explicitly specify an id, so something like this usually works:
<h:panelGrid columns="3">
    <c:forEach items="#{mylist}" var="row" varStatus="rs">
        <h:panelGroup>
            <h:outputText id="alabel_${rs.index}" value="Name:" />
            <h:outputText id="avalue_${rs.index}" value="#{row.name}" />
        </h:panelGroup>
    </c:forEach>
</h:panelGrid>However, I agree that this should not be needed if everything was working properly.
Another case I have found that seems to be a bug is a JSF fragment like this:
<h:form id="testForm">
  <h:panelGrid columns="3" columnClasses="rightColumnHeader, leftColumnHeader">
      <f:facet name="header">
     <h:outputFormat value="#{Bundle.listTest_title}" />
      </f:facet>
      <h:outputText value="Index$" />
      <h:outputText value="Index#" />
      <h:outputText value="Value" />
      <c:forEach items="#{testlist}" var="it" varStatus="is">
     <c:out value="${is.index}." />
     <h:outputText value="#{is.index}." />
     <h:outputText value="#{it}" />
      </c:forEach>
  </h:panelGrid>
</h:form>Now the c:out tag manages to output is.index, but the h:outputText tag doesn't. Further testing shows that the varStatus variable is not available at all in #{} expressions, but only in ${} expressions, whereas the var variable is available in both. Seems like a bug, but maybe there is some reason for this behaviour??