Bug in rich:panelMenu

[dschauder]

When I click on a rich:panelMenu item bound with a bean property on the server (selectedChild=#{someBean.value}), if the form that wraps the menu and some form entry fields fails validation, the bean property remains the same (set to the current page), but the rich:panelMenu shows the item that was selected by the user. When I check the value of the bean it displays properly, but for some reason the rich:panelMenu is not syncing up properly with the server to refresh from the bean properly. It looks like some javascript variable has been set for the menu's selected Item, but that this value doesn't match up with the current value of the bound bean value.

Can someone please tell me if this is a bug or if there is some option on rich:panelMenu I'm missing.

[rjbruneel]

We are having the same issue. Does anyone have a solution?

[nbelaevski]

Hello,

Looks like this is happening due to locally stored value. Try doing

org.richfaces.component.UIPanelMenu#setSelectedChild(null)

to get it "synced".

[rjbruneel]

Thank you for the reply, but I am new to rich faces and I am not sure where to put this code. Maybe I should describe my issue in more detail.

We have a ModalPanel with some form elements one of those form elements is required. If we submit the form without the required field we get an error as expected. The user has the option to close the ModalPanel. How can we refresh the ModalPanel with the original data when the user reopens the ModalPanel?

[nbelaevski]

1. Bind panelMenu to bean property
2. Show modalPanel using a4j:commandLink/button:

<rich:panelMenu binding="#{bean.panelMenu}">...</rich:panelMenu>
<a4j:commandLink value="show" reRender="panel" action="#{bean.action}" oncomplete="#{rich:component('panel')}.show()" />

public void action() { panelMenu.setSelectedChild(null); }

[nbelaevski]

Please take a look at this article: http://ishabalov.blogspot.com/2007/08/sad-story-about-uiinput.html