rich:dataTable sort not working in some cases

[gjeudy]

Hi,

I have updated my richfaces libraries to 3.2.1.GA seeing there were some bug fixes on table sorting.

Here's my usecase, I figured I needed to put my datatable inside a h:form tag for it to works. The initial rendering with initial sorting works fine, however nothing happens when I click the sort triangle buttons. I have used this sorting config many times successfully but can't figure what is wrong with this one.

rdm:listDeployDbLogEntries is a custom facelet component.

<ui:composition xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
 xmlns:ui="http://java.sun.com/jsf/facelets"
 xmlns:f="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core"
 xmlns:h="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html"
 xmlns:s="http://jboss.com/products/seam/taglib"
 xmlns:rich="http://richfaces.org/rich"
 xmlns:rdm="http://archinsurance.com/rdm" template="template.xhtml">

 <ui:define name="body">
 <h:panelGrid columns="1">
 <s:span styleClass="biggerlabel">Release Package deployment status:</s:span>
 <s:span styleClass="label">Deployment Status for release package: #{relPkg}</s:span>
 <h:panelGroup>
 <h:outputText styleClass="label"
 rendered="#{empty refPkgDeployDBLogEntries}"
 value="Cannot find any deployment status entries for this release package: #{relPkg}" />
 <h:form>
 <rdm:listDeployDbLogEntries />
 </h:form>
 </h:panelGroup>
 </h:panelGrid>
 </ui:define>

 <!-- sidebar -->
 <ui:define name="sidebar">
 <p><f:verbatim> </f:verbatim></p>
 </ui:define>
</ui:composition>

facelets fragment for rdm:listDeployDbLogEntries

<ui:composition xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
 xmlns:ui="http://java.sun.com/jsf/facelets"
 xmlns:h="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html"
 xmlns:f="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core"
 xmlns:s="http://jboss.com/products/seam/taglib"
 xmlns:rdm="http://archinsurance.com/rdm"
 xmlns:a4j="http://richfaces.org/a4j"
 xmlns:rich="http://richfaces.org/rich"
 xmlns:c="http://java.sun.com/jstl/core">
 <rich:dataTable rendered="#{not empty refPkgDeployDBLogEntries}"
 value="#{refPkgDeployDBLogEntries}" var="logEntry">
 <rich:column sortBy="#{logEntry.id}" sortOrder="ASCENDING">
 <f:facet name="header">
 <h:outputText styleClass="label" value="Deployment Id"></h:outputText>
 </f:facet>
 <h:outputText value="#{logEntry.id}"></h:outputText>
 </rich:column>
 <rich:column sortBy="#{logEntry.environment}">
 <f:facet name="header">
 <h:outputText styleClass="label" value="Target Environment"></h:outputText>
 </f:facet>
 <h:outputText value="#{logEntry.environment}"></h:outputText>
 </rich:column>
 <rich:column sortBy="#{logEntry.refDatabase}">
 <f:facet name="header">
 <h:outputText styleClass="label" value="Target database"></h:outputText>
 </f:facet>
 <h:outputText value="#{logEntry.refDatabase}"></h:outputText>
 </rich:column>
 <rich:column sortBy="#{logEntry.deploymentDate}">
 <f:facet name="header">
 <h:outputText styleClass="label" value="Deployment Date"></h:outputText>
 </f:facet>
 <h:outputText value="#{logEntry.deploymentDate}"></h:outputText>
 </rich:column>
 <rich:column sortBy="#{logEntry.deploymentStatus}">
 <f:facet name="header">
 <h:outputText styleClass="label" value="Deployment Status"></h:outputText>
 </f:facet>
 <h:outputText value="#{logEntry.deploymentStatus}"></h:outputText>
 </rich:column>
 <rich:column sortBy="#{logEntry.comments}">
 <f:facet name="header">
 <h:outputText styleClass="label" value="Comments"></h:outputText>
 </f:facet>
 <h:outputText value="#{logEntry.comments}"></h:outputText>
 </rich:column>
 </rich:dataTable>
</ui:composition>

I know the fragment works because I included it in another page and the sorting works as expected...

Anyone can tell me what i may be doing wrong ?

Thanks,