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I am using JSF and I would like to parameterize the text of a command button similarly to h:outputFormat.

Something like

<h:commandButton value="Text {0} some more text" [...] >

At the moment I am

<h:commandButton value="Text #{bean.value()} some more text" [...] >

but this makes me split all the texts stored as properties in two each time I have a parameter

<h:commandButton value="#{msg.textbefore} #{bean.value()} #{msg.textafter}" [...] >

Any hint?

Xeon
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Matteo
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  • What about a backing bean method that takes a message id and a list/array of params and returns the complete message string? – Matt Handy Aug 15 '12 at 09:01
  • @MattHandy something like `#{bean.format( msg.text , bean.value() )}` which parses all the `{N}` and substitutes? – Matteo Aug 15 '12 at 09:09
  • @MattHandy I could be an option, a native JSF solution would be easier but why not :-) – Matteo Aug 15 '12 at 09:17

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We make use of JSF 1.2 and we have defined a method in our own custom taglib.

<h:commandButton value="#{g:formatMessage('Text {0} some more text', bean.value)}" >

where g: the name space we have defined.

xmlns:g="http://www.client.com/product"

The taglib is registered in web.xml

<context-param>
    <param-name>facelets.LIBRARIES</param-name>
    <param-value>
        PATH_TO_CUSTOM_TAGLIB;/WEB-INF/tomahawk.taglib.xml;
    </param-value>
</context-param>

and the method is defined in the taglib as:

<function>
    <function-name>formatMessage</function-name>
    <function-class>com.XXX.XXX.XXX.JavaClass</function-class>
    <function-signature>java.lang.String formatMessage(java.lang.String, java.lang.String)</function-signature>
</function>
Bharat Sinha
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