Here is an quote from Oracle JavaEE 6 tutorial docs for passing parameter in value expression and method expression in JSF 2.
Parameters are supported for both value expressions and method expressions. In the following example, which is a modified tag from guessNumber application, a random number is provided as an argument rather than from user input to the method call:
<h:inputText value="#{userNumberBean.userNumber('5')}">
The above example uses a value expression.
And this is the default one:
<h:inputText value="#{userNumberBean.userNumber}">
Bean class -
import java.util.Random;
import javax.faces.bean.ManagedBean;
import javax.faces.bean.SessionScoped;
@ManagedBean
@SessionScoped
public class UserNumberBean {
Integer randomInt = null;
Integer userNumber = null;
public UserNumberBean() {
Random randomGR = new Random();
randomInt = new Integer(randomGR.nextInt(10));
System.out.println("Duke's number: " + randomInt);
}
public void setUserNumber(Integer user_number) {
userNumber = user_number;
}
public Integer getUserNumber() {
return userNumber;
}
}
The following expression is not passing 5 as a parameter to the inputText:
<h:inputText value="#{userNumberBean.userNumber('5')}">
It actually causes an error at run-time.
My question: How do I achieve this ??