Password hint - redirect to login

[monkeyden]

On our home page, I have a form for login. User provides username and submits the form to #{loginAction.retrievePassword}

That method finds the user by username, pulls the password hint and sets it into event scope.

public String retrievePasswordHint() {
 User user = null;
 User user = userBO.findByUserName(identity.getUsername());
 if (user != null) {
 Contexts.getEventContext().set("passwordHint", user.getPasswordHint());
 } else {
 facesMessages.addToControl("username", FacesMessage.SEVERITY_ERROR, passwordHintError);
 user = null;
 }
 return "login";
}

I also have a global navigation rule for the login page:

<navigation>
 <rule if-outcome="login">
 <redirect view-id="/login.xhtml" />
 </rule>
</navigation>

Any idea of why passwordHint might be empty when login is rendered?

Thanks

[monkeyden]

Sorry, forgot to include the page element:

<page view-id="*">
 <navigation>
 <rule if-outcome="login">
 <redirect view-id="/login.xhtml" />
 </rule>
 </navigation>
</page>