Testing JSF applications - JUnit in Action - page 297

<table border='1'>
<th>Name</th>
<th>Author</th>
<th>Year</th>
<th>Price</th>
<c:forEach var="album" items="#{listAlbumsBean.albums}">
<tr>
<td>
<h:commandLink
action="#{albumDetailsBean.showAlbumDetails}">

C

D

<h:outputText value="${album.name}" />
<f:param name="albumName" value="#{album.name}" />
</h:commandLink></td>
<td>${album.author}</td>
<td>${album.year}</td>
<td>$ ${album.price}</td>
</tr>
</c:forEach>
</table>
</h:form>
</body>
</html>
We need to import the tag libraries that we want to use in this JSP B . All that our JSP is
doing is iterating over all the albums C and displaying the information for every
album that we want. We use the standard JSTL tag libraries C as well core JSF tag
libraries D .
The JSP contains a link that to a managed bean we haven't defined yet:

<h:commandLink action="#{albumDetailsBean.showAlbumDetails}">
[...]
</h:commandLink>
We want to implement the following: the list_albums.jsp presents all the albums to the
user, and on clicking the name of an album you're redirected to a page that displays
the album details. The new page then allows you to purchase the album or navigate
back to the listing page.
Listing 15.6 gives the code for the bean that displays the details for the
selected album.

Listing 15.6 AlbumDetailsBean implementation

[...]
public class AlbumDetailsBean {

private String status = null ;

B

private HttpServletRequest request = null ;

C

private Album album = null ;

D

public String showAlbumDetails() {
HttpServletRequest request = getRequest();