scrollableDataTable and commandLink

[jzuccaro]

Hi! Why can't I use a commandLink inside a scrollableDataTable?

In my case the action is never called (for now, it is a simple System.out.println to confirm that the code was reached),
the clicked row is highlighted but nothing happens

It works perfectly if I change rich:scrollableDataTable with rich:dataTable, and it also works if I put the commandLink outside the richTable

I am begining to suspect that I am doing something wrong

Windows XP
jsf-impl 1.1 (Sun)
richfaces 3.1.0
JBoss 4.0.4

The Jsp:

Code:

<h:form id="miForma">
.....
<rich:scrollableDataTable width="700px" id="carList" rows="40"
 height="300px" value="#{recepcion.requisiciones}" var="req">

 <rich:column id="make">

 <f:facet name="header">
 <h:outputText styleClass="headerText" value="Make" />
 </f:facet>

 <h:outputText value="#{req.fecha}" />

 </rich:column>

 <rich:column id="model">

 <f:facet name="header">
 <h:outputText styleClass="headerText" value="Model" />
 </f:facet>

 <a4j:commandLink action="#{indexRecepcion.verDetallesRequisicion}"
 reRender="miForma" value="#{req.hora}">
 </a4j:commandLink>

 </rich:column>

</rich:scrollableDataTable>

</h:form>

indexRecepcion = Bean of scope request
recepcion = Bean of scope request
requisiciones = ArrayList



verDetallesRequisicion is never reached

[ilya_shaikovsky]

Strange..

<rich:scrollableDataTable width="300px" height="400px" value="#{capitalsBean.capitals}" var="cap">
 <rich:column>
 <h:inputText value="#{cap.name}" styleClass="myClass"/>
 </rich:column>
 <rich:column>
 <h:outputText value="#{cap.state}"/>
 </rich:column>
 <rich:column>
 <a4j:commandLink value="simple" action="#{bean.action}"></a4j:commandLink>
 </rich:column>
</rich:scrollableDataTable>

and

public String action() {
 System.out.println("action called");
 return null;
 }

And I'm able to see the output from the console.
Bean - request
CapitalsBean - session

JSF 1.2_04
Facelets 1.1.12
RF 3.1.1 SNAPSHOT
Tomcat 6

please use phasetracker to get info about the JSF phase that failed to be processed normally.

[alexmreis]

Having the exact same problem under Sun JSF RI 1.1_02.

<h:commandLink> and <h:commandButton> don't call their action methods when used inside a rich:scrollableDataTable. Changing it for a rich:dataTable fixes the problem (although i need the ajax scrolling functionallity in my app so I still have a problem).

Anyone found a solution yet?

[sergeysmirnov]

<h:commandLink> and <h:commandButton> don't call OR just <h:commandLink> ?

[alexmreis]

h:commandLink> AND <h:commandButton> - not necessarily together, happens with both, whether there's only one of them, or if they are isolated or on the same cell.

[alexmreis]

Btw, I'm using Tomcat 5.5.25, JDK 1.6.0_02, JSF RI 1.1_02 and RichFaces 3.1.0

[ilya_shaikovsky]

Ok I've changed my Env to
JSF RI Implementation-Version: 1.1_02-b08
No facelets
RF 3.1.1
Tomcat 5.5

And still have action fired with

<f:view>

<h:form>
 <rich:scrollableDataTable value="#{capitalsBean.capitals}" var="cap" width="200px" height="300px">
 <rich:column>
 <h:outputText value="#{cap.name}" />
 </rich:column>
 <rich:column>
 <h:outputText value="#{cap.state}" />
 </rich:column>
 <rich:column>
 <h:commandLink value="action" action="#{capitalsBean.action}"></h:commandLink>
 </rich:column>
 </rich:scrollableDataTable>
 </h:form>
 </f:view>

public String action() {
 System.out.println("Action fired");
 return null;
 }

[ilya_shaikovsky]

Probably need your full sample to reproduce.

[alexmreis]

http://alexeshadow.googlepages.com/tabela.zip

Page with the test case is home.jsp

WEB-INF/lib has been ommited to save space. If you wanna run the full app you'll need all hibernate libs, hibernate JPA, JSF and apache commons manager, and apache myfaces tomahawk.

[alexmreis]

Where can I get a 3.1.1 build so I can try this issue with the same config as yours?

[ilya_shaikovsky]

http://labs.jboss.com/jbossrichfaces/downloads

[arielfernando]

I try 3.3.1 and same problem.... actionListener method is never called from a commandLink inside scrollableDataTable, and works fine fom a dataTable.

Richfaces 3.1.1
No facelts
Trinidad 1.03
Myfaces 1.1.5
Tomahawk 1.1.6
Tomcat 5.5.23

(I try others enviroments...Tomcat 6.0.14, JSF 1.2, Trinidad 1.2.2... with and without a4j-trinidad.jar... but no success).

This is my original post:
http://jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&t=119995

[maksimkaszynski]

arielfernando,
I'm still unable to reproduce the problem. I tried on both Myfaces 1.1.5 and RI 1.2.

can you provide source code of your action method?

[arielfernando]

Yes, sure!!!.

This is my complete "newCountry.jsp" file:

<%@ page language="java" contentType="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"
pageEncoding="ISO-8859-1"%>

<%@ taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html" prefix="h"%>
<%@ taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core" prefix="f"%>
<%@ taglib uri="http://myfaces.apache.org/tomahawk" prefix="t"%>
<%@ taglib uri="http://myfaces.apache.org/trinidad/html" prefix="trh"%>
<%@ taglib uri="http://myfaces.apache.org/trinidad" prefix="tr"%>
<%@ taglib uri="http://richfaces.org/a4j" prefix="a4j"%>
<%@ taglib uri="http://richfaces.org/rich" prefix="rich"%>

<f:view>
<a4j:page>
<f:loadBundle basename="com.goytiapkg.econtroller.bundles.mensajes"
var="msg" />
<f:loadBundle basename="com.goytiapkg.econtroller.bundles.titles"
var="title" />
<f:loadBundle basename="com.goytiapkg.econtroller.bundles.forms"
var="tag" />
<tr:document title="#{title.applicationName}">
 <t:div styleClass="main">
 <f:subview id="idSubView">
 <t:saveState value="#{newCountry}" />
 <t:div styleClass="mainPanel">
 <rich:panel>
 <f:facet name="header">
 <h:outputText value="#{title.newCountry}" />
 </f:facet>
 <tr:panelBorderLayout>
 <f:facet name="left">
 <tr:form id="formCountry">
 <a4j:outputPanel id="idFormPanel">
 <tr:panelFormLayout>
 <tr:inputText id="idCodeName" label="#{tag.codeName}"
 value="#{newCountry.codeName}" required="true"
 requiredMessageDetail="{0} is required." columns="4"
 maximumLength="3" binding="#{newCountry.inputTextCodeName}">
 <tr:validateLength minimum="1" maximum="3" />
 </tr:inputText>
 <tr:inputText label="#{tag.countryName}"
 value="#{newCountry.name}"
 binding="#{newCountry.inputTextNombre}">
 </tr:inputText>
 <tr:panelButtonBar>
 <tr:commandButton id="idBtnSave" text="Save"
 actionListener="#{newCountry.save}" partialSubmit="true">
 <a4j:support event="onclick" reRender="idListaPaises" />
 </tr:commandButton>
 <tr:commandButton id="idBtnCancel" text="Cancel"
 actionListener="#{newCountry.cancelEditCountry}"
 partialSubmit="true"
 binding="#{newCountry.botonCancelEdition}" rendered="false"
 immediate="true" />
 </tr:panelButtonBar>
 </tr:panelFormLayout>
 </a4j:outputPanel>
 </tr:form>

 </f:facet>
 <f:facet name="right">
 <h:form id="formLista">
 <rich:scrollableDataTable id="idListaPaises"
 value="#{pais.listPaises}" rowKeyVar="rowKey" var="row"
 height="250px" width="400px" rows="0" sortMode="single"
 frozenColCount="1">
 <rich:column id="codeName">
 <f:facet name="header">
 <h:outputText value="#{tag.countryName}" />
 </f:facet>
 <h:outputText value="#{row.codeName}" />
 </rich:column>
 <rich:column id="nombre">
 <f:facet name="header">
 <h:outputText value="#{tag.codeName}" />
 </f:facet>
 <h:outputText value="#{row.nombre}" />
 </rich:column>
 <rich:column id="acciones" sortable="false">
 <f:facet name="header">
 <h:outputText value="Action" />
 </f:facet>
 <a4j:commandLink value="Edit"
 actionListener="#{newCountry.editPais}"
 reRender=":idSubView:idFormPanel, :idSubView:prueba2"
 immediate="true">
 <a4j:actionparam name="idCountry" value="18" assignTo="#{newCountry.id}" />
 </a4j:commandLink>
 </rich:column>
 </rich:scrollableDataTable>
 </h:form>
 </f:facet>
 </tr:panelBorderLayout>
 <h:form id="formDataTable">
 <rich:dataTable id="idListaPaisesDataTable"
 value="#{pais.listPaises}"
 var="row2">
 <rich:column id="codeName2">
 <f:facet name="header">
 <h:outputText value="#{tag.countryName}" />
 </f:facet>
 <h:outputText value="#{row2.codeName}" />
 </rich:column>
 <rich:column id="nombre2">
 <f:facet name="header">
 <h:outputText value="#{tag.codeName}" />
 </f:facet>
 <h:outputText value="#{row2.nombre}" />
 </rich:column>
 <rich:column id="acciones2">
 <f:facet name="header">
 <h:outputText value="Action" />
 </f:facet>
 <tr:commandLink id="editTrinidad" text="Editar"
 immediate="true" partialSubmit="true"
 actionListener="#{newCountry.editPais}">
 <tr:setActionListener from="#{row2.id}"
 to="#{newCountry.id}" />
 </tr:commandLink>
 <a4j:commandLink value="Edit"
 actionListener="#{newCountry.editPais}"
 reRender=":idSubView:idFormPanel, :idSubView:prueba2"
 immediate="true">
 <a4j:actionparam name="idCountry" value="18" assignTo="#{newCountry.id}" />
 </a4j:commandLink>
 </rich:column>
 </rich:dataTable>
 </h:form>
 <h:outputText id="prueba2" value="#{newCountry.name}" />
 <t:div styleClass="mainPanelButtonBar">
 <rich:separator />
 <rich:spacer height="5px" />
 </t:div>
 </rich:panel>
 </t:div>
 </f:subview>
 </t:div>
</tr:document>
</a4j:page>
</f:view>

And, action method ("editPais") source code:

 public void editPais(ActionEvent event) {
 System.out.print("***START EDITPAIS METHOD****");
 if(this.country.getId() >= 0) {
 this.inputTextCodeName.resetValue();
 this.inputTextNombre.resetValue();
 this.setCodeName("XXX");
 this.setName("THIS IS A TEST");
 this.botonCancelEdition.setRendered(true);
 }
 }

You can see that I'm mixed some trinidad and richfaces components. All works so fine from dataTable, but nothing happend from scrollableDataTable. The only problem that I found when reRender is called from dataTable, is that trinidad components styles are broken. For example, labels font types, or input text...

Best regards,

Ariel.

[alexmreis]

Just tested the issue with Richfaces 3.1.1 and still having the same problem, Tomcat 5.5.25, JSF RI 1.1_02, Apache MyFaces tomahawk 1.1.6, Richfaces 3.1.1. Test project posted before