MethodExpressionActionListener programmatically created work

[ethnarch]

I am programmatically building up some components to display. Along the way i am trying to add a method expression to some of the components to perform an action.

Also in all browser I will enter the into the backing beans phase events. Only in IE 6 however it actually hits the bizRuleMgmt.onSelectRulePart method. Very strange behavior is this a bug or something I am doing incorrectly?


versions:
jsf 1.2
richfaces 3.1.3.GA

Here is some of the code I am using.

 public UIComponent processRulePart(BRPart part){
 HtmlPanelMenuItem panelMenuItem = new HtmlPanelMenuItem();
 String subjectColumn = part.getFkSubjectColDefId().getName();
 String comparitor = part.getFkBRComparitor().getName();
 String value = part.getFkValueColRefId().getColName();
 MethodExpression methodExpression = getMethodExpression("#{bizRuleMgmt.onSelectRulePart}");
 MethodExpressionActionListener actionListener = new MethodExpressionActionListener(methodExpression);
 panelMenuItem.addActionListener(actionListener);
 panelMenuItem.setLabel(subjectColumn+" "+comparitor+" "+value);
 return panelMenuItem;
 }

 public MethodExpression getMethodExpression(String expression){
 Application app = context.getApplication();
 ExpressionFactory expressionFactory = app.getExpressionFactory();
 Class [] classList=new Class[1];
 classList[0]=ActionEvent.class;
 MethodExpression methodExpression = expressionFactory.createMethodExpression(
 context.getELContext(),
 expression, null, classList);
 return methodExpression;
 }

[ethnarch]

I probably should have posted this code also, this is where I am generating the new object go easy on me if this is all wrong. The summaryFactory is where the code above lives.

public void encodeEnd(FacesContext context){
 BizRulesSummaryPanelFactory summaryFactory = new BizRulesSummaryPanelFactory();
 HtmlOutputLabel p = new HtmlOutputLabel();
 p.setValue("test");
 BRRule brRule = (BRRule)getAttributes().get("brRule");

 try{
 if(brRule!=null){
 UIComponent component = summaryFactory.build(this, brRule, context);
 component.encodeAll(context);
 this.getChildren().add(component);
 }
 this.getChildren().add(p);
 }catch(IOException e){
 logger.error(e);
 }
 }

[ethnarch]

I tried doing this another way by binding my assembled parts to a panelmenu through the backing bean. This gave me the same result. It seems to be rather easily reproducible. Here is my new code.

I am not using the binding tag on the jsp page instead I am just using the tag as a place holder.

<rich:panelMenu id="ruleSummaryPanel"/>

Then in my backing bean I am doing this.

 HtmlPanelMenu panelMenu =
 (HtmlPanelMenu)FacesContext.getCurrentInstance().getViewRoot().findComponent("frmMain:ruleSummaryPanel");
 if(panelMenu!=null){
 Application application = FacesContext.getCurrentInstance().getApplication();
 HtmlPanelMenuGroup panelMenuGroup =
 (HtmlPanelMenuGroup)application.createComponent(HtmlPanelMenuGroup.COMPONENT_TYPE);
 panelMenuGroup.setLabel("test01");
 HtmlPanelMenuItem panelItem =
 (HtmlPanelMenuItem)application.createComponent(HtmlPanelMenuItem.COMPONENT_TYPE);
 //create method expression
 ExpressionFactory expressionFactory = application.getExpressionFactory();
 Class [] classList=new Class[1];
 classList[0]=ActionEvent.class;
 MethodExpression methodExpression = expressionFactory.createMethodExpression(
 FacesContext.getCurrentInstance().getELContext(),
 "#{ruleMgmt.onSelectSection}", null, classList);
 MethodExpressionActionListener actionListener = new MethodExpressionActionListener(methodExpression);


 panelMenuGroup.getChildren().add(panelItem);
 panelItem.addActionListener(actionListener);
 panelMenu.getChildren().add(panelMenuGroup);

The problem is pretty easily reproduced in this way. The actionListener will work propertly in ie6 and 7 but not in any other browsers. Does anybody know why?

[nbelaevski]

Hi,

Probably a bug in 3.1.3.GA. What about 3.1.6, does it work there?

[ethnarch]

I haven't tried that, but I probably should have thanks I'll let you know.

[nbelaevski]

Right, sorry, thank you in advance for checking with 3.1.6.SR1! BTW, the problem looks similar to: https://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/RF-4239. Have you tried with FF2/Safari or Opera?

[ethnarch]

3.1.6
gives me the same problem

I tried it in FF3, Opera and Chrome. Only IE 6 and 7 work.

BTW, the problem looks similar to: https://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/RF-4239

That's interesting I never tried doing this hardcoded or with a different type of component. I might try this some other other way.

[ethnarch]

I switched out the HtmlPanelMenuItem for an HtmlCommandButton and this works. I think this bug matches my problem.