Why doesn't this h:message work for the h:selectOneMenu?

[grettke_spdr]

Hi folks,

I've got a page with a selectOneMenu on it. The validation h:message just displays the message right next to it. This approach works for all of the text fields correctly, but for some reason it doesn't work with this selectOneMenu.

Instead the message gets displayed in the area of the page normally reserved for top level messages.

rms:enumListConverter is an enum converter.

<h:outputLabel for="selectedPriority" value="Priority:"/>
<h:selectOneMenu
 id="selectedPriority"
 value="#{inspectionSearchForm.selectedPriority}"
 required="false"
 disabled="false">
 <s:selectItems
 value="#{inspectionSearchForm.priorities}"
 var="priorityEnum"
 label="#{priorityEnum.description}"/>
 <rms:enumListConverter/>
</h:selectOneMenu>
<h:message for="selectedPriority" styleClass="error" />

[pmuir]

Whats the message (aka where is it originating)

[grettke_spdr]

Whats the message (aka where is it originating)

Hi Pete,

I was looking at one approach to doing custom validations, and testing out how the error messages show up. The approach in this system is the "form" and "action" style. I added messages in the action. Here is how it looks:

@Name("inspectionSearchAction")
@Scope(ScopeType.SESSION)
public class InspectionSearchActionImpl implements InspectionSearchAction {

 @Logger
 Log log;

 @In
 FacesMessages facesMessages;

 public void search() {
 try {
 facesMessages.addToControl("territoryNumber","territoryNumber");
 facesMessages.addToControl("riskControlRepNumber","riskControlRepNumber");
 facesMessages.addToControl("accountNumber","accountNumber");
 facesMessages.addToControl("selectedPriority","selectedPriority");
 facesMessages.addToControl("companyName","companyName");
 facesMessages.addToControl("selectedState","selectedState");
 facesMessages.addToControl("city","city");
 facesMessages.addToControl("county","county");
 facesMessages.addToControl("zipCode","zipCode");
 facesMessages.addToControl("surveyRangeStart","surveyRangeStart");
 facesMessages.addToControl("surveyRangeEnd","surveyRangeEnd");
 facesMessages.addToControl("inspectionCompleteRangeStart","inspectionCompleteRangeStart");
 facesMessages.addToControl("inspectionCompleteRangeEnd","inspectionCompleteRangeEnd");
 } catch (Exception e) {
 log.error(e);
 }
 }
}

[grettke_spdr]

I could not reproduce this!