Enum as a Seam component
ellenzhao Aug 6, 2007 8:06 AMMy user is supposed to specify importances of something from the UI. The importance are interpreted as Shorts. Here is my Enum:
@Name("importance") @Scope(APPLICATION) public enum Importance{ DONT_CARE((short) 0, "I don't care"), NOT_VERY((short) 1, "Not very important"), DONT_KNOW((short) 2, "I don't know"), IMPORTANT( (short) 3, "Important"), VERY((short) 4, "Very important"); private final Short weight; private final String label; Importance(Short weight, String label){ this.weight = weight; this.label = label; } public Short getWeight(){ return this.weight; } public String toString(){ return this.label; } }
I put it into the entity package since semantically it's closer to entities. The client code in the controller package is:
short impor = Importance.DONT_KNOW.getWeight(); this.foo.setDistanceImportance(impor); this.foo.setFondnessImportance(impor); ...
However I got this exception:
13:29:37,778 ERROR [STDERR] Aug 6, 2007 1:29:37 PM com.sun.facelets.FaceletViewHandler handleRenderException SEVERE: Error Rendering View[/weekly-planner.xhtml] org.jboss.seam.InstantiationException: Could not instantiate Seam component: importance at org.jboss.seam.Component.newInstance(Component.java:1955) at org.jboss.seam.Component.getInstance(Component.java:1858) at org.jboss.seam.Component.getInstance(Component.java:1825) at org.jboss.seam.Namespace.getComponentInstance(Namespace.java:55) at org.jboss.seam.Namespace.getComponentInstance(Namespace.java:50) at org.jboss.seam.el.SeamELResolver.resolveBase(SeamELResolver.java:166) at org.jboss.seam.el.SeamELResolver.getValue(SeamELResolver.java:53) at javax.el.CompositeELResolver.getValue(CompositeELResolver.java:53) at com.sun.faces.el.FacesCompositeELResolver.getValue(FacesCompositeELResolver.java:64) at org.jboss.el.parser.AstIdentifier.getValue(AstIdentifier.java:44) at org.jboss.el.ValueExpressionImpl.getValue(ValueExpressionImpl.java:186) at com.sun.facelets.el.TagValueExpression.getValue(TagValueExpression.java:71) at javax.faces.component.UISelectItems.getValue(UISelectItems.java:130) at org.jboss.seam.ui.component.UISelectItems.getValue(UISelectItems.java:96) at com.sun.faces.renderkit.RenderKitUtils.getSelectItems(RenderKitUtils.java:323) at com.sun.faces.renderkit.html_basic.MenuRenderer.getOptionNumber(MenuRenderer.java:675) at com.sun.faces.renderkit.html_basic.MenuRenderer.renderSelect(MenuRenderer.java:793) at com.sun.faces.renderkit.html_basic.MenuRenderer.encodeEnd(MenuRenderer.java:335) at javax.faces.component.UIComponentBase.encodeEnd(UIComponentBase.java:836) at javax.faces.component.UIComponent.encodeAll(UIComponent.java:896) at javax.faces.render.Renderer.encodeChildren(Renderer.java:137) at javax.faces.component.UIComponentBase.encodeChildren(UIComponentBase.java:812) at org.jboss.seam.ui.util.cdk.RendererBase.renderChild(RendererBase.java:186) at org.jboss.seam.ui.util.cdk.RendererBase.renderChildren(RendererBase.java:166) at org.jboss.seam.ui.renderkit.FragmentRendererBase.doEncodeChildren(FragmentRendererBase.java:29) at org.jboss.seam.ui.util.cdk.RendererBase.encodeChildren(RendererBase.java:92) at javax.faces.component.UIComponentBase.encodeChildren(UIComponentBase.java:812) at javax.faces.component.UIComponent.encodeAll(UIComponent.java:886) at javax.faces.component.UIComponent.encodeAll(UIComponent.java:892) at com.sun.facelets.FaceletViewHandler.renderView(FaceletViewHandler.java:571) at org.ajax4jsf.framework.ViewHandlerWrapper.renderView(ViewHandlerWrapper.java:108) at org.ajax4jsf.framework.ajax.AjaxViewHandler.renderView(AjaxViewHandler.java:233) at com.sun.faces.lifecycle.RenderResponsePhase.execute(RenderResponsePhase.java:106) at com.sun.faces.lifecycle.LifecycleImpl.phase(LifecycleImpl.java:251) at com.sun.faces.lifecycle.LifecycleImpl.render(LifecycleImpl.java:144) at javax.faces.webapp.FacesServlet.service(FacesServlet.java:245) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:290) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206) at org.jboss.seam.servlet.SeamFilter$FilterChainImpl.doFilter(SeamFilter.java:82) at org.jboss.seam.web.MultipartFilter.doFilter(MultipartFilter.java:85) at org.jboss.seam.servlet.SeamFilter$FilterChainImpl.doFilter(SeamFilter.java:68) at org.jboss.seam.web.ExceptionFilter.doFilter(ExceptionFilter.java:64) at org.jboss.seam.servlet.SeamFilter$FilterChainImpl.doFilter(SeamFilter.java:68) at org.jboss.seam.web.RedirectFilter.doFilter(RedirectFilter.java:44) at org.jboss.seam.servlet.SeamFilter$FilterChainImpl.doFilter(SeamFilter.java:68) at org.ajax4jsf.framework.ajax.xmlfilter.BaseXMLFilter.doXmlFilter(BaseXMLFilter.java:127) at org.ajax4jsf.framework.ajax.xmlfilter.BaseFilter.doFilter(BaseFilter.java:277) at org.jboss.seam.web.Ajax4jsfFilter.doFilter(Ajax4jsfFilter.java:60) at org.jboss.seam.servlet.SeamFilter$FilterChainImpl.doFilter(SeamFilter.java:68) at org.jboss.seam.web.LoggingFilter.doFilter(LoggingFilter.java:58) at org.jboss.seam.servlet.SeamFilter$FilterChainImpl.doFilter(SeamFilter.java:68) at org.jboss.seam.debug.hot.HotDeployFilter.doFilter(HotDeployFilter.java:68) at org.jboss.seam.servlet.SeamFilter$FilterChainImpl.doFilter(SeamFilter.java:68) at org.jboss.seam.servlet.SeamFilter.doFilter(SeamFilter.java:149) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:235) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206) at org.jboss.web.tomcat.filters.ReplyHeaderFilter.doFilter(ReplyHeaderFilter.java:96) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:235) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:230) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:175) at org.jboss.web.tomcat.security.SecurityAssociationValve.invoke(SecurityAssociationValve.java:179) at org.apache.catalina.authenticator.AuthenticatorBase.invoke(AuthenticatorBase.java:433) at org.jboss.web.tomcat.security.JaccContextValve.invoke(JaccContextValve.java:84) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:128) at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:104) at org.jboss.web.tomcat.service.jca.CachedConnectionValve.invoke(CachedConnectionValve.java:157) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:109) at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:241) at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:844) at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.process(Http11Protocol.java:580) at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.JIoEndpoint$Worker.run(JIoEndpoint.java:447) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619) Caused by: java.lang.InstantiationException: org.ningning.eatsmart.entity.Importance at java.lang.Class.newInstance0(Class.java:340) at java.lang.Class.newInstance(Class.java:308) at org.jboss.seam.Component.instantiateJavaBean(Component.java:1300) at org.jboss.seam.Component.instantiate(Component.java:1256) at org.jboss.seam.Component.newInstance(Component.java:1951) ... 72 more
How to fix this? Thanks in advance for any help!
Regards,
Ellen