Adding custom attribute (HTML5) support to JSF 2.0 UIInput component

Question

I am trying to write a renderer which would process the placeholder attribute on an component. I headed to this path after read

Answer 1

And to override for MyFaces 2.0.8+

package com.hsop.abc.eld;

import java.io.IOException;

import javax.faces.component.UIComponent;
import javax.faces.context.FacesContext;
import javax.faces.context.ResponseWriter;

import org.apache.myfaces.renderkit.html.HtmlTextRenderer;

public class InputRenderer extends HtmlTextRenderer
{
    @Override
    protected void renderInputBegin(FacesContext context, UIComponent component)
            throws IOException
    {
        // TODO Auto-generated method stub
        super.renderInputBegin(context, component);

    Object placeholder = component.getAttributes().get("placeholder");
    if(placeholder != null) { 
        ResponseWriter writer = context.getResponseWriter();
        writer.writeAttribute("placeholder", placeholder, "placeholder");
    }

    }
}

Answer 2

You can just override ResponseWriters startElement method, that method is only called once and then you can restore to the original responsewriter object.

import javax.faces.context.*;
import java.io.IOException;

public class InputRenderer extends com.sun.faces.renderkit.html_basic.TextRenderer{

      // Put all of the attributes you want to render here...
      private static final String[] ATTRIBUTES = {"required","placeholder"};

    @Override
    protected void getEndTextToRender(FacesContext context,
            UIComponent component, String currentValue) throws IOException {
        final ResponseWriter originalResponseWriter = context.getResponseWriter();
        context.setResponseWriter(new ResponseWriterWrapper() {

            @Override
// As of JSF 1.2 this method is now public.
            public ResponseWriter getWrapped() {
                return originalResponseWriter;
            }   

            @Override
            public void startElement(String name, UIComponent component)
                    throws IOException {
                super.startElement(name, component);
if ("input".equals(name)) {
  for (String attribute : ATTRIBUTES)
  {
    Object value = component.getAttributes().get(attribute);
    if (value != null)
    {
      super.writeAttribute(attribute,value,attribute);
} 
  }
}   
        });
        super.getEndTextToRender(context, component, currentValue);
        context.setResponseWriter(originalResponseWriter); // Restore original writer.
    }



}

Answer 3

This is my way. I added placeholder and data-theme attributes. If you want to add more attributes, you should just add its name to attributes array.

import javax.faces.component.UIComponent;
import javax.faces.context.FacesContext;
import javax.faces.context.ResponseWriter;

import com.sun.faces.renderkit.html_basic.TextRenderer;

public class InputRender extends TextRenderer {

    @Override
    protected void getEndTextToRender(FacesContext context,
            UIComponent component,
            String currentValue)
     throws java.io.IOException{

        String [] attributes = {"placeholder","data-theme"};

        ResponseWriter writer = context.getResponseWriter();

        for(String attribute : attributes)
        {
            String value = (String)component.getAttributes().get(attribute);
            if(value != null) {                             
                writer.writeAttribute(attribute, value, attribute);
            }
        }

        super.getEndTextToRender(context, component, currentValue);

    }

}

You should add this to faces-config.xml file.

 <render-kit>
    <renderer>
        <component-family>javax.faces.Input</component-family>
        <renderer-type>javax.faces.Text</renderer-type>
        <renderer-class>your.package.InputRenderer</renderer-class>
    </renderer>
</render-kit>