Setting attributes of declarative components in an application

Question

As far as I understand, the attributes of declarative component (DC) can be set in such way:
UIXDeclarativeComponent  component = ... /* obtain component instance, no matter how */
component.getAttributes().put("<attribute name>", <attribute value>);Am I right? If so, then why the following does not work (assuming my DC has 7 af:inputTexts whose values are set to the corresponding attribute):
In a DC
<af:componentDef var="attrs" componentVar="component">
<af:inputText value="#{attrs.surnameValue}"
                    label="#{resource['Payer.Surname']}" id="p_surname"
                    autoSubmit="true" binding="#{CSJPayerSupport.surname}"/>
...and so on 7 timesIn my View Controller code (parent is UIXDeclarativeComponent)
System.out.println("dump parent attrs");
for (String s:parent.getAttributes().keySet()) {
    if (parent.getAttributes().get(s) != null)
        System.out.println("S="+s+" value ="+parent.getAttributes().get(s).toString());
    else
        System.out.println("S="+s+" value is not set");
System.out.println("===============");
parent.getAttributes().put("surnameValue", bprow.getFllastname());
parent.getAttributes().put("nameValue", bprow.getFlname());
parent.getAttributes().put("middlenameValue", bprow.getFlpatronymicname());           
parent.getAttributes().put("addressValue", bprow.getAddress());
parent.getAttributes().put("birthdayValue", bprow.getBirthday());
parent.getAttributes().put("passportnoValue", bprow.getFlpassportno());
parent.getAttributes().put("passportdateValue", bprow.getFlpassportissuedate());           
parent.getAttributes().put("passportplaceValue", bprow.getFlpassportissueplace());           
for (String s:parent.getAttributes().keySet()) {
    if (parent.getAttributes().get(s) != null)
        System.out.println("S="+s+" value ="+parent.getAttributes().get(s).toString());
    else
        System.out.println("S="+s+" value is not set");
}I see in the output, that attributes are truly set, but those values do not appear in corresponding af:inputTexts! What am I doing wrong?
Edited by: Brenagwynn on 5/2/2010 17:58

Answer 1

Hi,
are the values provided when the declarative component loads ? If not, try and partially refresh the declarative component so when the data is set, the UI is repainted.
Frank