The value expression does not appear to be evaluated.

[john.turner1]

I am trying to use a value expression to set a rendered property on a rich faces menuItem. The value expression does not appear to be evaluated.

<rich:menuItem value="Alert" rendered="#{securityService.currentUserHasRole('ROLE_TEST')}">
 <f:actionListener type="FlowRedirectActionListener"/>
 <f:attribute name="flowId" value="myFlow"/>
</rich:menuItem>

Environment:
Facelets 1.1.14
Tomcat 6.0.16
JSF Reference Implementation 1.2_06
JBoss RichFaces 3.2.1
JBoss EL 2.0.1

[ilya_shaikovsky]

have you checked in the debugger that the method called ?

[john.turner1]

The method is not called. I have log statements etc. in the method that appear when the view is rendered within a webflow flow but not outside the flow. If I put in things like

rendered="#{1024 == 1024}"

the expression is evaluated fine and the component is rendered. If i remove

<context-param>
 <param-name>com.sun.faces.expressionFactory</param-name>
 <param-value>org.jboss.el.ExpressionFactoryImpl</param-value>
</context-param>

from web.xml the parser complains about the () in the expression (as you would expect).

So it appears that the expression is being parsed but not evaluated\executed?

[john.turner1]

One thing I just tried was

rendered="#{myFakeBean.fakeMethod()}"

this did not throw and exception??

I would have expected an exception when the parser tried to resolve myFakeBean.

[john.turner1]

Ok. Time to admit my stupidity.

I failed to configure Spring's delegating variable resolver.

What through me of was that it worked within the webflow and no exception was thrown even though the bean was not resolved.