About propagating a value in a conversation

[rlhr]

Hello,

I have a conversation started through a page action ("Push"-style MVC).

In pages.xml, I have:

<page view-id="/check.xhtml" action="#{check.perform}" />

The bean is define as followed:

@Stateless
@Name("check")
public class CheckAction implements Check {

 @Out(scope=ScopeType.SESSION, required=false)
 private User user;

 @PersistenceContext
 private EntityManager em;

 @In(create=true)
 private transient FacesMessages facesMessages;

 @RequestParameter
 private String username;

 @RequestParameter
 private String action;

 @Logger
 private Log log;

 public String perform() {

 // Retrieve the user from the username
 user = ...;

 // Save action in the context
 Contexts.getConversationContext().set("action", this.action);

 return "home";
 }

 // Getters and Setters
 ...
}

The home.xhtml files is loaded properly and on onload call loads view.xml in another frame. The url used to load view.xhtml is:
http://localhost:8080/default/view.seam?conversationId=#{conversation.id}

Until this point, everything seems to be fine and I could check that the conversationId was properly passed in the url.

Now in the view.xhtml page, there are some fields inside a form and a submit button defined with a s:link

<s:link action="#{view.change}" value="submit" buttonClass="button" linkStyle="button"/>

Where view is another stateless bean.

@Stateless
@Name("view")
public class ViewAction implements View{

 @In
 @Out
 private User user;

 @PersistenceContext
 private EntityManager em;

 @In
 private transient Context sessionContext;

 @In(create=true)
 private transient FacesMessages facesMessages;

 @In
 private String action;

 private String definition;

 @Logger
 private Log log;


 public String change() {

 log.debug("****************** action: " + this.action);
 return null;
 }

 //Getters and Setters
 ...
}

I was expecting this.action not to be null but since I propagated the conversation all the way (I believe s:link does propagate the conversation as well).
I thought by setting a value et putting it in the conversation context, it would be propagated, but it is not, so I guess I might do something wrong here, but I'm not sure what...

If someone see what's wrong, I'd like to understand.

Thanks

Richard

[gavin.king]

I don't see where you start the conversation.

Should perform() have an @Begin annotation?

[rlhr]

Of course the @Begin is what was missing. For some reason, when I read the reference doc, I got the idea that it wasn't need when starting a "Push"-style MVC page action!
Now that I read it again, I must say it was written properly :)

Thanks again,

Richard