[OmniFaces utilities (2.0)] Get whether the given editable value holder component has a submitted value

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[OmniFaces utilities] The hasSubmittedValue() method returns whether the given editable value holder component has a submitted value.

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Method:

As you can see an empty value is considered a null value or an empty string.

Usage:

JSF Page

<h:form id="myForm">

 <h:inputText id="nameId" value="..."/>

  ...

</h:form> 

Programmatically:

import org.omnifaces.util.Components;

...

UIInput  uiinput = (UIInput)Faces.getViewRoot().findComponent("myForm:nameId");

boolean hasSubmittedValue = Components.hasSubmittedValue(uiinput);

If you follow a simple postback scenario then the above method will return the results from figure below for non-empty submitted value:

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