I have a user-defined text, such as
@SessionScoped
public class MyBean {
private String text = "Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player
that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and
then is heard no more.";
public String getText() {
return text;
}
}
Of course the text is not static, but will be loaded from somewhere else. I want the text to be displayed one the page, as in
<h:form id="myForm">
<h:outputText value="#{myBean.text}" />
</h:form>
Now have a logic in the bean which marks certain words, e.g. every noun, in the text. These words should be rendered as links, as if they were commandLinks. That is, the form should be submitted and I should be able to find out which link was clicked. Something similar was already asked here, here and here, but I am not sure if the solutions given there suit my case.
My best guess right now is to split the text at the marked words into a list of snippets in the bean, e.g.
List<TextSnippet> textSnippets;
class TextSnippet {
private String precedingText;
private String markedWord;
...
}
such that each text snippet ends with a marked word. Then I would be able to iterate over the list in the xhtml, e.g.
<h:form id="myForm">
<ui:repeat var="snippet" value="#{myBean.textSnippets}">
<h:outputText value="#{snippet.precedingText}" />
<h:commandLink action="#{myBean.clickedOn(snippet.markedWord)}">
<h:outputText value="#{snippet.markedWord}">
</h:commandLink>
</ui:repeat>
</h:form>
However, I feel that this tightly couples the bean (logic of splitting) to the view. Any better ideas?