Mail sending through Seam

[vedavyas]

Hi All,

I am trying to send a mail by calling the required method in a class which implements ActionHandler. But the Renderer object is not getting injected.

This is the code i have used.

public class Mail implements ActionHandler {

 @In(create=true)
 private Renderer renderer;

 public void execute(ExecutionContext executioncontext) throws Exception {
 sendmail();
 }

 public void sendmail() {
 try {
 renderer.render("/Mail.xhtml");
 } catch (Exception e) {
 e.printStackTrace();
 }
 }
}

But renderer is not getting assigned. it is always null.

But if i call it as a seam component i.e if the class does not implement ActionHandler and i call the method, #{mail.sendmail} from a .xhtml file directly Renderer object gets assigned.

What is the problem? Is there any other way to do this?

Thanks

[cwash]

But if i call it as a seam component i.e if the class does not implement ActionHandler and i call the method, #{mail.sendmail} from a .xhtml file directly Renderer object gets assigned.

I might be wrong, but I think you need to have a component in order to inject a component. That should explain the behavior you're seeing.

If you want to do it the first way you've outlined, you might try getting a handle to it using http://docs.jboss.com/seam/1.2.0.PATCH1/api/org/jboss/seam/core/Renderer.html#instance() and see if that works.