expression language empty parameter

[everlastx1]

hello,

I have a strange problem with the seam EL that I didn't had with version 1.2.1 GA .
Now I moved from 1.2.1 to 2.0.0GA.
The problem is that if I pass a parameter like #{searcher.searchByCreator(c)} the function is getting called in my bean searchBean.searchByCreator(String creator) but the value of String creator is empty (not null). Parm. c is not empty because it gets printed on the screen.

Where can I look for failures or what did I do wrong, because I don't get any strange debug messages or any error messages.


thank you

best regards.

V.

<div id="center">
 <h:messages globalOnly="true" styleClass="message" />

 <h:form id="search_Form">
 <h:inputText id="value" required="false" value="#{searcher.searchString}" style=" width : 300px; "/>
 <h:commandButton id="search" value="search" action="#{searcher.search}" style="width : 50px; "/>
 </h:form>

 <!-- RESULT LIST -->

 <h:dataTable id="DT_docs" var="docResult" value="#{docs}">
 <h:column id="Column_docs">

 <h:outputText value=" Creator: " rendered="#{not empty docResult.doc.creator}" />
 <h:dataTable id="DT_creator" var="c" value="#{docResult.doc.creator}">
 <h:column id="Column_creator">
 <h:form id="Form_creator" styleClass="subText" style="margin:auto;padding:auto; /*just for the IE*/">
 <s:link id="Link_searchByCreator" value="[#{c}]," action="#{searcher.searchByCreator(c)}"/>
 </h:form>
 </h:column>
 </h:dataTable>

 </h:column>
 </h:dataTable>

 </div> <!-- center-->

My bean code looks like this

@Stateful
@Name("searcher")
public class SearchBean implements Search, Serializable {

 @DataModel
 private List<SearchResult> docs = null;

 public void search(){
 log.info("search.search() action called " + searchString);
 docs = indexer.search(searchString);
 }


 public void searchByCreator(String creator){
 searchString = "creator:"+ creator ;
 search();
 }

 @Destroy
 @Remove
 public void destroy() {}

[nickarls]

and #{docResult.doc.creator} resolves to a normal String?

[everlastx1]

no docResult.doc.creator is an array of String

In the second dataTable I loop thou the array and bind each array element to the var "c" and the elements of docResult.doc.getCreator() are instanceof Strings

<h:dataTable id="DT_creator" var="c" value="#{docResult.doc.creator}">
 <h:column id="Column_creator">
 <h:form id="Form_creator" styleClass="subText" style="margin:auto;padding:auto; /*just for the IE*/">
 <s:link id="Link_searchByCreator" value="[#{c}]," action="#{searcher.searchByCreator(c)}"/>
 </h:form>
 </h:column>

[everlastx1]

a note

if I put a constant as a param in JSF
like this
<s:link id="Link_searchByCreator" value="bla bla," action="#{searcher.searchByCreator('test String')}"/>

then my bean function SearchBean.searchByCreator(String c){}
is called with the value 'test String' the variable c is always empty !!!

[everlastx1]

what reasons are responsible that a value of a var is not passed to the bean?
"#{searcher.searchByCreator(var)}" // var is not empty but it is in the bean

[pmuir]

Take a look at the EL chapter in the CVS ref guide:

http://snapshots.jboss.org/maven2/org/jboss/seam/jboss-seam-reference-documentation/2.0.1-SNAPSHOT/jboss-seam-reference-documentation-2.0.1-SNAPSHOT.pdf

[everlastx1]

thx for this hint.

"You must ensure that the parameters are available not only when the page is rendered, but also when it is sub-
mittedIf the arguments can not be resolved when the page is submitted the action method will be called with
null arguments" --> Stateful bean, right?

I did read the chapter and adapted my program according to it. I didn't had any luck.
I changed my Project so it looks same like the booking example.

I dont see any difference in my code the the booking example. I am quite frustrated because i don't get any feedback from the system and I am trying all kind of combinations since 3 days now with no luck.

I have a list of results If the user clicks on an author from the list the page is redisplay according to the parameter passed in the function call searchByCreator();

<h:form id="searchForm">
 <h:inputText id="value" required="false" value="#{searcher.searchString}" style=" width : 300px; "/>
 <h:commandButton id="search" value="search"
action="#{searcher.search}" style="width : 50px; "/>
</h:form>


<h:dataTable var="resultElem" value="#{searchResult}">
 <h:column>
 <!-- Creator -->
 <h:form styleClass="subText" style="margin:auto;padding:auto; /*just for the IE*/">
 <ui:repeat var="a" value="#{resultElem.doc.creator}" >
 <h:commandLink value="[#{a}]," action="#{searcher.searchByCreator(a)}" />
 </ui:repeat>
 </h:form>
</h:column>
</h:dataTable>

@Stateful
@Name("searcher")
public class SearchBean implements Search, Serializable {

 @DataModel
 private List<SearchResult> searchResult;

 public void searchByCreator(String creator){
 ....
 }
 ...

 @Destroy
 @Remove
 public void destroy() {}

if I use h:commandLink my function is never called the page is just rerendered

If I user s:link the function gets called but the parameter is empty!

If i put the h:command link outside the ui:repeat this makes no difference the result is the same like above.

If I use the in second loop a h:dataTable i have the same result as above

simplified system:

If i make a function call outside the DataTable id doesn't work always

inside the search form
<h:form id="searchForm">
 <h:inputText id="value" required="false" value="#{searcher.searchString}" style=" width : 300px; "/>
 <h:commandButton id="search" value="search"
action="#{searcher.search}" style="width : 50px; "/>
<h:commandLink styleClass="subText" value="#{searcher.searchString}," action="#{searcher.searchByKeyword(searcher.searchString)}" />
Does work
</h:form>

Two Forms

<h:form id="searchForm">
 <h:inputText id="value" required="false" value="#{searcher.searchString}" style=" width : 300px; "/>
 <h:commandButton id="search" value="search"
action="#{searcher.search}" style="width : 50px; "/>
<h:commandLink styleClass="subText" value="#{searcher.searchString},"
</h:form>

<h:form>
action="#{searcher.searchByKeyword(searcher.searchString)}" />
don't work
</h:form>

[pmuir]

Put the form around the whole datatable.

[everlastx1]

Thank you,

Did try it but without any changes

If s:link is used function gets called with the null parameter
with h:commandLink function is not called at all.

<!DOCTYPE composition PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
 "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<ui:composition xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
 xmlns:s="http://jboss.com/products/seam/taglib"
 xmlns:ui="http://java.sun.com/jsf/facelets"
 xmlns:f="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core"
 xmlns:h="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html"
 xmlns:rich="http://richfaces.org/rich"
 xmlns:a="http://richfaces.org/a4j"
 template="layout/template.xhtml">

 <ui:define name="body">

 <h:form>
 <h:inputText id="value" required="false" value="#{searcher.searchString}" style=" width : 300px; "/>
 <h:commandButton id="search" value="search" action="#{searcher.search}" style="width : 50px; "/>
 </h:form>

 <!-- RESULT LIST -->
 <h:form>
 <h:dataTable var="resultElem" value="#{searchResult}">
 <h:column>

 <!-- Creator -->
 <h:outputText value="Creator:" rendered="#{not empty resultElem.doc.creator}" />
 <ui:repeat var="a" value="#{resultElem.doc.creator}" >
 <s:link value="[#{a}]," action="#{searcher.searchByCreator(a)}" />
 <h:commandLink value="[#{a}]," action="#{searcher.searchByCreator(a)}" />
 </ui:repeat>

 </h:column>
 </h:dataTable>
 </h:form>


 </ui:define>
</ui:composition>

[pmuir]

Nesting loops in JSF is tricky. What about if you don't use the nested loop? Does it work then?

[everlastx1]

Finally !

I found out the the bean behaved "Stateless" although I did annotate it as Stateful, no wonder it didn't work, I just found it out by coincidence.
After changing it from conversation scope to the Session scope it suddenly worked like a charm !
For Seam the Conversation was over after a request and response but for me it wasn't done with it. I didn't notice it until now.

There is one question left.
How can I determine precisely from my code and my code structure when a conversation will be over?


In the docs it is just written that the conversation scope can last for several request, responses and over multiple pages but it is not very precise.

thank you people for investing you time.

[everlastx1]

Finally !

I found out the the bean behaved "Stateless" although I did annotate it as Stateful, no wonder it didn't work, I just found it out by coincidence.

After changing it from conversation scope to the Session scope it suddenly worked like a charm !

The Conversation was over for seam after a request and response but for me it wasn't done with it.

There is one question left.

How can I determine precisely from my code and my code structure when a conversation is over?


thank you people for investing you time.

[nickarls]

By looking at the code, no way since the methods can be called in arbitrary order. But you can check it programmatically with Conversation.getInstance().isLongRunning().