6 Replies Latest reply on Jul 19, 2007 2:55 PM by dhinojosa

    ARGH! Seam 2.0.0 Beta, Ajax4JSF, <s:convertEntity/>, <s:sele

    dhinojosa

      I am going crazy with this, in fact I am about to eat glass. Anyone encountered this before?

      
      javax.servlet.ServletException
       javax.faces.webapp.FacesServlet.service(FacesServlet.java:256)
       org.ajax4jsf.framework.ajax.xmlfilter.BaseXMLFilter.doXmlFilter(BaseXMLFilter.java:127)
       org.ajax4jsf.framework.ajax.xmlfilter.BaseFilter.doFilter(BaseFilter.java:277)
       org.jboss.web.tomcat.filters.ReplyHeaderFilter.doFilter(ReplyHeaderFilter.java:96)
      
      ROOT CAUSE:
      
      java.lang.NullPointerException
       org.jboss.seam.ui.converter.EntityConverter.getAsString(EntityConverter.java:69)
       org.jboss.seam.ui.converter.PrioritizableConverter.getAsString(PrioritizableConverter.java:67)
       org.jboss.seam.ui.converter.ConverterChain.getAsString(ConverterChain.java:123)
       com.sun.faces.renderkit.html_basic.HtmlBasicRenderer.getFormattedValue(HtmlBasicRenderer.java:469)
       com.sun.faces.renderkit.html_basic.MenuRenderer.renderOption(MenuRenderer.java:502)
       com.sun.faces.renderkit.html_basic.MenuRenderer.renderOptions(MenuRenderer.java:757)
       com.sun.faces.renderkit.html_basic.MenuRenderer.renderSelect(MenuRenderer.java:811)
       com.sun.faces.renderkit.html_basic.MenuRenderer.encodeEnd(MenuRenderer.java:335)
       javax.faces.component.UIComponentBase.encodeEnd(UIComponentBase.java:833)
       org.ajax4jsf.framework.renderer.RendererBase.renderChild(RendererBase.java:286)
       org.ajax4jsf.framework.renderer.RendererBase.renderChildren(RendererBase.java:262)
       org.ajax4jsf.framework.renderer.AjaxContainerRenderer.encodeChildren(AjaxContainerRenderer.java:100)
       javax.faces.component.UIComponentBase.encodeChildren(UIComponentBase.java:809)
       org.ajax4jsf.ajax.UIAjaxRegion.encodeChildren(UIAjaxRegion.java:117)
       javax.faces.component.UIComponent.encodeAll(UIComponent.java:886)
       javax.faces.render.Renderer.encodeChildren(Renderer.java:137)
       javax.faces.component.UIComponentBase.encodeChildren(UIComponentBase.java:809)
       javax.faces.component.UIComponent.encodeAll(UIComponent.java:886)
       javax.faces.component.UIComponent.encodeAll(UIComponent.java:892)
       com.sun.faces.application.ViewHandlerImpl.doRenderView(ViewHandlerImpl.java:244)
       com.sun.faces.application.ViewHandlerImpl.renderView(ViewHandlerImpl.java:175)
       org.ajax4jsf.framework.ViewHandlerWrapper.renderView(ViewHandlerWrapper.java:108)
       org.ajax4jsf.framework.ajax.AjaxViewHandler.renderView(AjaxViewHandler.java:233)
       org.jboss.seam.jsf.SeamViewHandler.renderView(SeamViewHandler.java:87)
       org.ajax4jsf.framework.ViewHandlerWrapper.renderView(ViewHandlerWrapper.java:108)
       org.ajax4jsf.framework.ajax.AjaxViewHandler.renderView(AjaxViewHandler.java:233)
       com.sun.faces.lifecycle.RenderResponsePhase.execute(RenderResponsePhase.java:106)
       com.sun.faces.lifecycle.LifecycleImpl.phase(LifecycleImpl.java:251)
       com.sun.faces.lifecycle.LifecycleImpl.render(LifecycleImpl.java:144)
       javax.faces.webapp.FacesServlet.service(FacesServlet.java:245)
       org.ajax4jsf.framework.ajax.xmlfilter.BaseXMLFilter.doXmlFilter(BaseXMLFilter.java:127)
       org.ajax4jsf.framework.ajax.xmlfilter.BaseFilter.doFilter(BaseFilter.java:277)
       org.jboss.web.tomcat.filters.ReplyHeaderFilter.doFilter(ReplyHeaderFilter.java:96)
      
      



      Here is my .jsp file from where this is originated...
      <%@page pageEncoding="UTF-8"%>
      <%@taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core" prefix="f"%>
      <%@taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html" prefix="h"%>
      <%@taglib uri="http://jboss.com/products/seam/taglib" prefix="s"%>
      <%@taglib uri="https://ajax4jsf.dev.java.net/ajax" prefix="a4j"%>
      <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
      "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
      
      <f:view>
       <h:form>
       <div id="selectGate">
       <a4j:region selfRendered="true">
       <h:selectOneMenu value="#{selectGateBean.gate}">
       <s:selectItems var="gate" value="#{gateStyle.gates}" label="#{gate.name}" noSelectionLabel="please choose" />
      
       <a4j:support event="onchange" reRender="selectColor, selectPost"/>
       <s:convertEntity />
       </h:selectOneMenu>
       </a4j:region>
       </div>
       <a4j:outputPanel id="selectColor">
       <h:selectOneMenu value="#{selectGateBean.color}">
       <s:selectItems var="color" value="#{gate.colors}" label="#{color.name}"/>
       </h:selectOneMenu>
       </a4j:outputPanel>
       <a4j:outputPanel id="selectSwing">
       <h:messages />
       <h:selectOneMenu value="#{selectGateBean.swingType}">
       <s:convertEnum />
       <s:enumItem enumValue="PUSH" label="Push" />
       <s:enumItem enumValue="PULL" label="Pull" />
       </h:selectOneMenu>
       </a4j:outputPanel>
       <a4j:outputPanel id="selectPost">
       <h:messages />
       <h:selectOneMenu value="#{selectGateBean.posts}">
       <s:selectItems var="post" value="#{selectGateBean.recommendedPostPaks}" label="#{post.name}"/>
       </h:selectOneMenu>
       </a4j:outputPanel>
       </h:form>
      </f:view>
      



      My gateStyle bean and my gate bean is annotation with @Id fields correctly. My components.xml is I believe correct:
      <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
      <components xmlns="http://jboss.com/products/seam/components"
       xmlns:core="http://jboss.com/products/seam/core"
       xmlns:persistence="http://jboss.com/products/seam/persistence"
       xmlns:drools="http://jboss.com/products/seam/drools"
       xmlns:security="http://jboss.com/products/seam/security"
       xmlns:mail="http://jboss.com/products/seam/mail"
       xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
       xsi:schemaLocation=
       "http://jboss.com/products/seam/core http://jboss.com/products/seam/core-2.0.xsd
       http://jboss.com/products/seam/persistence http://jboss.com/products/seam/persistence-2.0.xsd
       http://jboss.com/products/seam/drools http://jboss.com/products/seam/drools-2.0.xsd
       http://jboss.com/products/seam/security http://jboss.com/products/seam/security-2.0.xsd
       http://jboss.com/products/seam/mail http://jboss.com/products/seam/mail-2.0.xsd
       http://jboss.com/products/seam/components http://jboss.com/products/seam/components-2.0.xsd">
      
       <core:init jndi-pattern="amazinggates/#{ejbName}/local"/>
       <persistence:managed-persistence-context name="em"
       auto-create="true"
       persistence-unit-jndi-name="java:/amazinggatesEntityManagerFactory"/>
       <component name="org.jboss.seam.ui.EntityConverter">
       <property name="entityManager">#{em}</property>
       </component>
      </components>
      



      Here is my persistence.xml for safe measure:
      <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
      <persistence>
       <persistence-unit name="amazinggates">
       <jta-data-source>java:/amazinggatesDS</jta-data-source>
       <properties>
       <property name="hibernate.dialect" value="org.hibernate.dialect.MySQLDialect"/>
       <property name="hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto" value="update"/>
       <property name="jboss.entity.manager.factory.jndi.name" value="java:/amazinggatesEntityManagerFactory"/>
       </properties>
       </persistence-unit>
      </persistence>
      


      I appreciate your help....