Can my Facelets converter depend on a `ui:repeat` loop var?

Question

The following doesn't work as I'd hoped:

<ul>
    <ui:repeat var="i" value="#{fn:split('1,2,3,4', ',')}">
        <li>
            <h:outputText value="1.2345">
                <f:convertNumber
                        minFractionDigits="#{i}"
                        maxFractionDigits="#{i}" />
            </h:outputText>
        </li>
    </ui:repeat>
</ul>

I was hoping to see:

• 1.2
• 1.23
• 1.234
• 1.2345

Instead I see:

• 1
• 1
• 1
• 1

What am I missing? My guess is that the converter is initialised when the Facelet is initially loaded, before the run-time looping occurs. Is there a way around this?

My real use-case involves a RichFaces rich:dataTable component instead of a ui:repeat, but the gist is the same.

Answer 1

It seems not to work indeed. Even if you use <h:outputText value="#{1.2345}">, which is more correct.

I guess, if you need this, you will have to prepare the output in the managed bean.

Answer 2

I have the same problem. It doesn't work with a4j:repeat too. It works using c:forEach but this kind of iterator is giving me other problems and I don't want to use it. If you use, in your f:convertNumber, an object from the managed bean it works, but I only need to get the attribute from the object of the list that i'm looping.

Can anyone help?