Queue an action event or invoking the button action in programmatic way

Sometimes our requirement is to invoke the button’s action in programmatic way without needing a user to click a button,. For example we want navigation happening automatically without clicking the button by user i.e implementing navigation in programmatic way using Java.We can queue an action event . In this case the developer may drag and drop a button in the page and binds its action property to some static action outcome or to a method that returns a String, and set Visible property for the button to false. At some point the developer can invoke this button’s action by using this code.

FacesContext facesContext = FacesContext.getCurrentInstance();

UIViewRoot root = facesContext.getViewRoot();   

//cb1 is the fully qualified name of the button

RichCommandButton button = (RichCommandButton) root.findComponent(“cb1″); // cb1 will be id of invisible button

ActionEvent actionEvent = new ActionEvent(button);

actionEvent.queue();        // we are queuing the all action programmaticly

an another code snippet which will work in this scenario

UIComponent component = null;

FacesContext facesContext = FacesContext.getCurrentInstance();

if (facesContext != null) {

  UIComponent root = facesContext.getViewRoot();

  component = findComponent(root, "button_id");  // button_id will be id of invisible button

}

 

RichCommandButton button = (RichCommandButton)component;

ActionEvent actionEvent = new ActionEvent(button);

actionEvent.queue();   // we are queuing the all action programmaticly

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