Question

For <f:selectItem> there is no rendered attribute. How can I hide a particular <f:selectItem> under <h:selectOneRadio>?

<h:selectOneRadio id="radio1" styleClass="selectOneRadio" value="#{}" rendered="#{}">
    <f:selectItem itemValue="ALL" itemLabel="#{ONE}" />
    <f:selectItem itemValue="PRIVATE" itemLabel="#{TWO}" />
    <f:selectItem itemValue="GROUP" itemLabel="#{THREE}" />
</h:selectOneRadio>

In above code I want to hide the second item.

Answer 1

The <f:selectItem> is a tag handler (which evaluated during view build time), not a JSF component (which is evaluated during view render time). You can only show/hide it with another tag handler, such as JSTL <c:if>.

<h:selectOneRadio value="#{bean.selectedItem}">
    <f:selectItem itemValue="ALL" itemLabel="#{ONE}" />
    <c:if test="#{!bean.showPrivate}">
        <f:selectItem itemValue="PRIVATE" itemLabel="#{TWO}" />
    </c:if>
    <f:selectItem itemValue="GROUP" itemLabel="#{THREE}" />
</h:selectOneRadio>

Only when #{bean} is been prepared during view render time by an iterating JSF component such as <h:dataTable> or <ui:repeat> then the above won’t work and you really have to do it in the backing bean code instead.