a4j support and immediate

[trajber]

Hi all,

I was trying to make a text field with a4j:support an immediate component. But when I set it with immediate="true" the managed bean does not receive the value sent via ajax, it is null. Why ?

test.jsf

<h:inputText value="#{test.name}">
 <f:validateLength minimum="2" />
 <a4j:support event="onblur" actionListener="#{test.doSomething}"
 reRender="parent"
 immediate="true" />
</h:inputText>

Test.java

public class Test {
 private String name;

 public String getName() {
 return name;
 }

 public void setName(String name) {
 this.name = name;
 }

 public void doSomething(ActionEvent actionEvent) {
 System.out.println("OOPS:"+name);
 }
}

output...

OOPS:null

As you can see, the method is invoked properly but the value is not sent!!!
Removing the immediate attribute everything goes normal.

[viggo.navarsete]

I'm not sure, but do you need to wrap it into a form? either a4j:form or h:form?

[trajber]

Sure, I did it.

Here is the complete source code.

<h:form id="parent">
 <h:inputText value="#{test.name}">
 <f:validateLength minimum="2" />
 <a4j:support event="onblur" actionListener="#{test.doSomething}"
 reRender="parent"
 immediate="true" />
 </h:inputText>
</h:form>

What am I doing wrong ?

[ilya_shaikovsky]

you should read some JSF basic documents. It's normal immediate behaviour.

[trajber]

Is not immediate used for bypass component validation ?

[trajber]

Sorry, my fault.

I realize that immediate=true is not to bypass the validation, but the validation occours in another step in life cycle.

But there´s a way to bypass the validation ?

"trajber" wrote:
Is not immediate used for bypass component validation ?