"Parent" similar from PrettyFaces

[lriquelme]

Hi guys, what is the similar "parentId" annotation (from prettyfaces) in rewrite?

Regards

[chkal]

No, sorry. I don't think there is such a feature yet.

[lincolnthree]

Actually, I believe the Subset rule can be used for this purpose, but you might have to do a little bit of hand-waving to get child rules to apply themselves as if they were a literal child of the "parent" segment:

https://github.com/ocpsoft/rewrite/blob/master/api/src/main/java/org/ocpsoft/rewrite/config/Subset.java

A few examples of simple Subset use-cases. However, I don't believe I have one that actually does what you want it to do:
https://github.com/ocpsoft/rewrite/blob/master/api-tests/src/test/java/org/ocpsoft/rewrite/config/SubsetParameterReconfigurationTestProvider.java
https://github.com/ocpsoft/redoculous/blob/master/app/src/main/java/org/ocpsoft/redoculous/config/PreviewModeConfigurationProvider.java

Then you'd need to create and register an annotation to handle this new functionality (if you want to make it an annotation):

https://github.com/ocpsoft/rewrite/blob/master/config-annotations/src/main/resources/META-INF/services/org.ocpsoft.rewrite.annotation.spi.AnnotationHandler

I think it's possible to do with this, but as I said above, you might need to get a bit creative. If you do figure out how to do it, please let us know! If you get to the point of needing to create an annotation, @chkal might be able to explain how to get one of those set up, in specifics.

It's also possible that simply registering an annotation to handle this that "reconfigures" the necessary @Join mappings would be enough (without subset, but I'd start with Subset if you're using the Java ConfigurationProvider API.