[bfo81]

Gavin, maybe we misunderstood each other. It's important to mention that the actionMethod above shall perform "complex" validation and then save if everything is alright.

@Stateful
@Scope(CONVERSATION)
@Name("whateverEditor")
@TransactionAttribute(TransactionAttributeType.NOT_SUPPORTED)
public class WhateverEditorBean .... {

...

 @TransactionAttribute(TransactionAttributeType.REQUIRED)
 @End(ifOutcome={"backToListPage"})
 public String actionMethod() {

 if ( ! complexValidationOk() ) {

 ejbCtx.setRollbackOnly(); //no flushing at the end of the method
 addFacesMessage("Complex validation failed");
 return null; //redisplay editor page
 }

 //everything ok? then auto-flushing will be performed at the end of the method.

 return "backToListPage";
 }

...
}

The flush-mode in the begin annotation is much better, yes... but for a non-beta, non-CVS, production environment I need another solution. And I'm really interested what you think about the approach above. For me it seemed to work perfectly.

btw: what does "hosed" mean? Sorry, I'm German, and the dictionary doesn't know that word *dooooh* ;).

[bfo81]

Ok, found out that "hosed" is it slang and means "broken" ;).

However...

@Gavin, could you explain me why using setRollbackOnly() causes isn't good for the PersistenceContext?

[gavin.king]

If a txn rolls back, the EJB3 spec says that the PC should be cleared. So you will lose the state of the PC.

[bfo81]

Thanks for your answer. But the PC only exists during editing one single entity (in a conversation), so I think it's ok... it works without problems ;).

[krica]

I know this is an old thread, but I ran into the same problem with the ValidatorException causing the crash. After much trial and error, this is the solution I have come up with. I thought it may be useful for others, at least once I get the last little niggle out of it, which I don't think is relevant to the problem at hand.

At the bottom of my form, I create a hidden input field, with a dummy value and a bound validator method. In this method, I then get the components I'm interested in and validate the values. If a field is deemed invalid, the flag it as such and add a message to the context. E.g.

 public void validateForm(FacesContext context, UIComponent component, Object value) throws ValidatorException {
 HtmlInputText theInputText = (HtmlInputText) context.getViewRoot().findComponent("myForm:myInputId");
 String theValue = (String) faxInputText.getValue();
 if ("anError".equals(theValue)) {
 theInputText.setValid(false);
 context.addMessage(theInputText.getClientId(context), FacesMessages.createFacesMessage(FacesMessage.SEVERITY_ERROR, "This is an error!"));
 }
 }

My only problem left is that sometimes, for some reason, the method does not get called.