JavaServer Faces

The TreeRenderer Class

The com.mycompany.jsf.renderer.TreeRenderer class is similar to the renderers we’ve looked at earlier:

package com.mycompany.jsf.renderer;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.Iterator;
import java.util.List;

import javax.faces.context.FacesContext;
import javax.faces.context.ResponseWriter;
import javax.faces.component.NamingContainer;
import javax.faces.component.UIComponent;
import javax.faces.component.UIViewRoot;
import javax.faces.render.Renderer;

import com.mycompany.jsf.component.UITree;
import com.mycompany.jsf.model.TreeNode;

public class TreeRenderer extends Renderer {

    public boolean getRendersChildren( ) {
        return true;
    }

    public void encodeChildren(FacesContext context, UIComponent component)
        throws IOException {

        if (!component.isRendered( )) {
            return;
        }

        if (((UITree) component).getValue( ) == null) {
            return;
        }
        
        ResponseWriter out = context.getResponseWriter( );
        String clientId = null;
        if (component.getId( ) != null && 
            !component.getId( ).startsWith(UIViewRoot.UNIQUE_ID_PREFIX)) {
            clientId = component.getClientId(context);
        }

        boolean isOuterSpanUsed = false;
        if (clientId != null) {
            isOuterSpanUsed = true;
            out.startElement("span", component);
            out.writeAttribute("id", clientId, "id");
        }
        encodeNodes(context, out, (UITree) component, null, 0);
        ((UITree) component).setNodeId(null);
        if (isOuterSpanUsed) {
            out.endElement("span");
        }
    }

It extends the Renderer class and returns true from the getRendersChildren( ) method because it controls the rendering ...