JSF custom component: value not binding to component

Question

I have a custom UIInput component which is not able to bind to the value of the component from a backing bean. Here is the JSF code snippet:
<tw:validateInputText id="locationIdStopInput" table="location" column="location" styleClass="wideSingleInput" value="#{currentStop.customer.customer}" rendered="#{loadTypeView.renderWarehouse or (currentStop.stopNumber gt 1 and loadTypeView.renderOutbound) or (currentStop.stopNumber eq 1 and loadTypeView.renderInbound)}"/>
tw is the custom tag and validateInputText is the custom UiInput component.
On posting the form the decode method is not able to get the value from the requestParameter map. Following is the decode() I wrote:
public void decode(FacesContext context,
UIComponent component) {
// assertValidInput(context, component);
if (context == null || component == null) {
throw new NullPointerException();
ValidateInputTextComponent map = (ValidateInputTextComponent) component;
String key = map.getId();
if (component instanceof UIInput) {
UIInput input = (UIInput) component;
String clientId = input
.getClientId(context);
Map requestMap = context
.getExternalContext()
.getRequestParameterMap();
String newValue = (String) requestMap
.get(clientId);
if (null != newValue) {
input.setSubmittedValue(newValue);
Also providing the setProperties() from the custom tag class:
protected void setProperties(UIComponent component){
super.setProperties(component);
if (getValue()!=null){
if (isValueReference(getValue())){
ValueBinding vbTarget = FacesContext.getCurrentInstance().getApplication().
createValueBinding(getValue());
component.setValueBinding(VB_VALUE, vbTarget);
System.out.println(component.getValueBinding("value").getValue(FacesContext.getCurrentInstance()));
} else{
((UIInput) component).setValue(value);
// component.getAttributes().put("value",getValue());
if (getCompValue()!=null){
if (isValueReference(getCompValue())){
ValueBinding vbCompTarget = FacesContext.getCurrentInstance().getApplication().
createValueBinding(getCompValue());
component.setValueBinding(VB_COMPONENT_VALUE, vbCompTarget);
} else{
// ((UIInput) component).setValue(compValue);
component.getAttributes().put(VB_COMPONENT_VALUE,getCompValue());
if (getTable() != null && isValueReference(getTable())){
ValueBinding vbTable = FacesContext.getCurrentInstance().getApplication().
createValueBinding(getTable());
component.setValueBinding(VB_TABLE, vbTable);
} else{
component.getAttributes().put(VB_TABLE, getTable());
if (getColumn() != null && isValueReference(getColumn())){
ValueBinding vbColumn = FacesContext.getCurrentInstance().getApplication().
createValueBinding(getColumn());
component.setValueBinding(VB_COLUMN, vbColumn);
} else{
component.getAttributes().put(VB_COLUMN,getColumn());
if (getStyleClass() != null && isValueReference(getStyleClass())){
ValueBinding vbClass = FacesContext.getCurrentInstance().getApplication().
createValueBinding(getStyleClass());
component.setValueBinding(VB_STYLE_CLASS, vbClass);
} else{
component.getAttributes().put(VB_STYLE_CLASS, getStyleClass());
if(getRendered() != null && isValueReference(getRendered())){
ValueBinding vbRendered = FacesContext.getCurrentInstance().getApplication().
createValueBinding(getRendered());
component.setValueBinding(VB_RENDERED, vbRendered);
} else{
Boolean a = new Boolean(getRendered());
component.getAttributes().put(VB_RENDERED, new Boolean(getRendered()));
Please let me know If I am missing something here to retrieve the value from the component.
Thanks

Answer 1

See this tutorial:
http://www.jsftutorials.net/components/index.html