a4j:commandButton and f:stPropertyActionListener

[fabmars]

Hello
I just upgraded to RF3.3.0 (+JSF RI 1.2.11, Facelets and Glassfish)


I have fully read and understood this one: https://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/RF-5606


However I'm stuck with this code (it's inside a dataTable):

<a4j:commandLink value="del" actionListener="#{blogEdit.doDeleteComment}" onclick="if (! window.confirm('Are you sure?') ) {return false}" reRender="comments">
 <f:setPropertyActionListener value="#{comment}" target="#{blogEdit.editedComment}" />
</a4j:commandLink>

I cannot use:

a4j:actionparam name="comment" value="#{comment}" assignTo="#{blogEdit.editedComment}" actionListener="#{blogEdit.doDeleteComment}"/>

because my object is not easily serializable.


Does annyone have a workaround giving a way to trigger a listener after a setPropertyActionListener has ben triggered?

Thanks.

[fabmars]

Hmmmwell this seems to work:

<a4j:commandLink value="del" onclick="if (! window.confirm('Are you sure?') ) {return false}">
 <f:setPropertyActionListener value="#{comment}" target="#{blogEdit.editedComment}" />
 <a4j:support event="onbeforedomupdate" actionListener="#{blogEdit.doDeleteComment}" reRender="comments"/>
</a4j:commandLink>

[ilya_shaikovsky]

about the case you marked as working - it looks not really good because two requests risen instead of one.

about the case itself - I think you should check the problem at JSF resources because the sequence will be the same if you will not use a4j:command* controls but use h:command* instead.

[fabmars]

Sorry for letting the doubt: it is totally right that the result will be the same with h:command*, and I wasn't looking trying to decribe a potential bug. If I had to, I'd be more specific.

I was looking for a workaround. And I'm still looking for a simple one. I can always assign the property by code inside my listener but it will force me to do some tricks.


I can always ask the JSF people, but judging by the way JSF 1.2 handles actions, it's just to no avail.