Hi,
I'm new to Seam and I'm trying to use the @Factory annotation to initialize the properties of a Managed Bean upon request of a jsf page, no matter if the request comes from a JSF context or not (ex. from another servlet).
My bean is super simple (see included code below), it only has 2 properties (postDate and postText) which need to be initialized to a value fetched from the database. I'd like to make the initialization take place when the page is requested using a Factory method (myFactory). The page gets displayed but the method myFactory is never called. What am I doing wrong?
Thanks!
Math
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@Name("newsBean")
@Scope(ScopeType.SESSION)
public class NewsBean implements Serializable {
private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
@In
ToolbarBean toolbarBean;
@In
SessionBean sessionBean;
@Out(required=false)
Date postDate;
@Out(required=false)
String postText;
public String process(){
try {
// update toolbar
toolbarBean.setCurrentReport(ToolbarBean.CURRENT_REPORT_NOT_SET);
toolbarBean.setPrinterFriendlyPath("/dynamic/faces/dataview/newsPF.jsf");
toolbarBean.setShowExportToExcel(false);
toolbarBean.setReportName(TextResource.getTextResourceString(new TextKey("News"),null,sessionBean.getCurrentLocale()));
toolbarBean.setRefreshAction("newsBean.process");
Language language = LanguageDAO.getInstance().findByPk(sessionBean.getLanguageCode());
News news = NewsService.getInstance().findCurrentNews();
postDate = news.getNewsTime();
postText = news.getNewsDescription().getText(language);
} catch (Exception ex){
MessageHandler.handleGenericException(ex);
return "error";
}
return "success";
}
@Factory("postDate")
public void myFactory(){
process();
}
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