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Summary

Tag name: <t:dojoInitializer>
UIComponent class: org.apache.myfaces.custom.dojo.DojoInitializer
Tag class: org.apache.myfaces.custom.dojo.DojoInitializerTag
Component type: org.apache.myfaces.DojoInitializer
Component family: javax.faces.Output
Renderer type: org.apache.myfaces.DojoInitializerRenderer
Renderer class: org.apache.myfaces.custom.dojo.DojoInitializerRenderer

Default component for the dojo intializer
This component is purely non visual, and serves for quick hacking, and prototyping the dojo toolkit within verbatimed html.
Dojo initializer helper tag for debugging and communication flags. This tag encapsules the Dojo DjConfig meta configuration and also adds the needed dojo required functionality.

Usage

<t:dojoInitializer
            >
            [rendered="true|false"]
            [allowQueryConfig="true|false"]
            [baseScriptUri="<some uri>"]
            [bindEncoding="utf8|iso8859-1|iso-8859-15|..."]
            [debug="true|false"]
            [debugAtAllCosts="true|false"]
            [debugConsole="true|false"]
            [debugContainerId="<some id of an existing defined container >"]
            [development="true|false"]
            [expanded="true|false"]
            [ignoreClassNames="true|false"]
            [ioSendTransport="xmlhttrequest"]
            [parseWidgets="true|false"]
            [preventBackButtonFix="true|false"]
            [provide="<dojo class with package>"]
            [require="<dojo class with package>"]
            [searchIds="<some id of an existing defined container >"]
            [development="true|false"]

            </t:dojoInitializer>

Instructions

see dojo/*.jsp for various usage examples!

Attributes

Name Type Supports EL? Description
allowQueryConfig Boolean Yes Triggers a standard dojo allowQueryConfig as defined by the Dojo Toolkit. If someone has additional infos about this tag, please fill in here.
baseScriptUri String Yes Triggers a standard dojo baseScriptUri as defined by the Dojo Toolkit

Allows the alteration of the dojo loading root path used by require.
bindEncoding String Yes Triggers a standard dojo bindEncoding as defined by the Dojo Toolkit Although this control most of the times is not needed one usage in plain jsf applications can be thought of. The changing of the bind encodings, if you check the parameter list of the control ioSendTransport can be used to change this encoding to any encoding parameter needed. This can be used to change the internal ajax request encodings of various controls in a global manner.
binding String Only EL Identifies a backing bean property (of type UIComponent or appropriate subclass) to bind to this component instance. This value must be an EL expression.
debug Boolean Yes Triggers a standard dojo debug as defined by the Dojo Toolkit

Enables the dojo debugging framework. The usage of dojo.debug causes output to be displayed in either the current container or a target container, if one is set.
debugAtAllCosts Boolean Yes Triggers a standard dojo debugAtAllCosts as defined by the Dojo Toolkit
Tries to enforce debugging even if the browser version does not allow it to work properlys
debugConsole Boolean Yes Triggers a standard dojo debugConsole as defined by the Dojo Toolkit

This flag pops up a separate in frame floating window which receives the debugging output.

Note: This flag only works if debugging is enabled generally via the debug="true" flag set
debugContainerId String Yes Triggers a standard dojo debugContainerId as defined by the Dojo Toolkit

This flag notifies the Dojo toolkit about the id which should receive the debug output. Dojo has a full debugging framework in it which allows to turn on debug output via a logging mechanism @see dojo.debug() for further references.

The debugging output is not limited to the current container triggering the debugging statement any container can receive the debugging output this flag is the flag which has to be set for setting a different target id for the debugging output.
development Boolean Yes Triggers a standard dojo development as defined by the Dojo Toolkit If this parameter is set to true. The expanded debuggable version of dojo is included if set to false the compressed one is included.
expanded Boolean Yes Triggers a standard dojo development as defined by the Dojo Toolkit If you can find additional info about this attribute please fill in here
id String Yes An identifier for this particular component instance within a component view.

The id must be unique within the scope of the tag's enclosing NamingContainer (eg h:form or f:subview). The id is not necessarily unique across all components in the current view

This value must be a static value, ie not change over the lifetime of a component. It cannot be defined via an EL expression; only a string is permitted.

ignoreClassNames Boolean Yes Triggers a standard dojo ignoreClassNames as defined by the Dojo Toolkit

This attribute turns on the case insensitive handling of classnames by require and other Dojo class loader mechanisms.

Case sensitivity is by default turned on.
ioSendTransport String Yes Dojo in its underlying architecture allows various options of server-client side communication. This setting allows the alteration of the communication layer to a different protocol. Currently only in usage is xmlhttprequest, hence setting this encoding will not change too much. But different encodings like iframe are planned for the future.
parseWidgets Boolean Yes Triggers a standard dojo parseWidgets as defined by the Dojo Toolkit This parameter is used to turn on or off the dojo widgeting parsing. The parsing is not used by MyFaces for various reasons, but can be used by your own html code.

For addititional information regarding the Dojo Toolkit widget parsing, visit the
Dojo Toolkit Homepage
preventBackButtonFix Boolean Yes Dojo uses internally back button blockers to avoid problems with ajax requests causing the back button, to move out of the back page navigation order. Sometimes this behavior is not wanted and can be turned off with this on a global scale;
provide String Yes Triggers a standard dojo provide as defined by the Dojo Toolkit
rendered boolean Yes A boolean value that indicates whether this component should be rendered. Default value: true.
require String Yes Triggers a standard dojo provide as defined by the Dojo Toolkit
searchIds String Yes Triggers a standard dojo development as defined by the Dojo Toolkit If you can find additional info about this attribute please fill in here