RichFaces Gurus - Critique My Design/Code Please
Environment
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JBoss - 4.2.0
Java - 1.6.0_02
MySQL
Seam 2.0.0 Beta 1
Process
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I want a "New" button on a page to pop up a modalPanel. Within that panel, have the fields needed to create a new User. Hit a "Save" button on the panel, go through the validation on the Entity bean, if the validation fails, use the a4j:outputPanel to display the errors on the modalPanel that should stay open. If the validation succeeds, then create the user in the database and then close the modalPanel.
Code
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Page
<ui:composition>
<ui:define>
<h:form>
<a4j:commandButton id="btnNewUser" value="New" oncomplete="javascript:Richfaces.showModalPanel('mplNewUser',{width:450, top:200})"></a4j:commandButton>
</h:form>
</ui:define>
</ui:composition>
modalPanel
<rich:modalPanel id="mplNewUser" minHeight="265" minWidth="475" height="265" width="475" zindex="2000">
<f:facet name="header">
<h:outputText value="Create New User" />
</f:facet>
<h:form id="frmNewUser">
<h:panelGrid columns="2" cellpadding="3" width="255" columnClasses="leftlable, left" style="background-color:#F1F1F1">
<h:outputText value="User555 Name" />
<h:inputText required="true" value="#{usermanager.newUser.username}" id="iptNewusername" >
<s:validate/>
</h:inputText>
<h:outputText value="Password" />
<h:inputText required="true" value="#{usermanager.newUser.password}" id="iptNewpassword" >
<s:validate/>
</h:inputText>
</h:panelGrid>
<a4j:outputPanel ajaxRendered="true">
<h:messages id="errors" />
</a4j:outputPanel>
<br/>
<a4j:commandButton id="btnSaveUser" value="Save" actionListener="#{usermanager.saveUser}" oncomplete="javascript:Richfaces.hideModalPanel('mplNewUser')" reRender="errors" ></a4j:commandButton>
<h:commandButton id="btnCancelNewUser" type="submit" value="Cancel" action="#{usermanager.cancelNewUser}"></h:commandButton>
</h:form>
</rich:modalPanel>
Bean
@Name("usermanager")
@Stateful
@Scope(SESSION)
@Restrict("#{identity.loggedIn}")
public class UserManager implements UserManagerInterface {
@In
private User user;
@In
private Session inetworkDatabase;
@Logger
Log log;
@In
FacesMessages facesMessages;
private User newUser = new User();
public void setNewUser(User newUser){ this.newUser = newUser; }
public User getNewUser(){ return this.newUser; }
public void saveUser(ActionEvent event){
try {
inetworkDatabase.save(this.newUser);
getUsers();
setNewUser(new User());
}catch (Exception e){
}
}
public void cancelNewUser(){
setNewUser(new User());
}
}
PROBLEMS
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1) If the validation fails, the errors are displayed on the a4j:outputPanel, BUT the modalPanel closes anyway. I need that modalPanel to stay open if the validation fails.
2) After going through the process once and a user is created, if the "New" button is clicked again, the modalPanel is pre-populated with the information of the user that was previously created. Basically, the code setNewUser(new User), is not re-setting the newUser object.
I love RichFaces, but I am still a rookie...
Any help would be very appreciated....
Thanks
indy
