3.0 vs. 3.1 -- id changes

[tynor]

I have a Seam based application using Richfaces and have just upgraded from Seam 1.2.1 (which was using Richfaces 3.0.1) to Seam 2.0.0 (which uses 3.1.1-SNAPSHOT).

A change to the way id's are assigned has broken my Selenium tests.

<rich:dataTable id="userList"
 rows="20"
 var="user"
 value="#{userList.resultList}"
 rendered="#{not empty userList.resultList}">
...
 <h:column id="action">
 <f:facet name="header">action</f:facet>
 <s:link view="/admin/UserEdit.xhtml"
 value="Edit..."
 id="user">
 <f:param name="userUserId"
 value="#{user.userId}"/>
 </s:link>
 </h:column>
 </rich:dataTable>

The Edit... links in this table used to be addressable from Selenium scripts as

userListForm:userList:0:user

now they are simply

user

Here's the HTML source for the 3.1 base app:

<td id="userListForm:userList:0:action" class="dr-table-cell rich-table-cell ">
<a href="/myapp/admin/UserEdit.seam?userUserId=1&cid=9" id="user">Edit...</a></td>

Here's what it looked like in 3.0.1:

<td id="userListForm:userList:0:action" class="dr-table-cell rich-table-cell ">
<a id="userListForm:userList:0:user" href="/myapp/admin/UserEdit.seam?userUserId=1&cid=4">Edit...</a></td>

They no longer include the row id in the link id. What can I do to get a rowid back into the id so that my tests can distinguish row0 from row15?

Thanks!

[sergeysmirnov]

This is a bug in Seam. We just have found the source of the problem in Seam's code.
Seam uses writer.writeAttribute(HTML.ID_ATTR, link.getId(), HTML.ID_ATTR);
However, it should be a clientId() there.

Thank you for your report in anyway.

[tynor]

Thanks for the quick feedback Sergey. I'll follow up with the Seam folk.

[sergeysmirnov]

We already posted the bug to them:
http://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/JBSEAM-1947
Refer to it.