Hi everyone,
I have the following non-Ajax4JSF code, where userBean is session scoped.
The form has 2 input text boxes, one of which has a validator. There is a simple commandButton to save it all.
<h:inputText id="userLogin" value="#{userBean.selectedUser.login} validator="#{userBean.loginValidator}" />
<h:message for="userLogin" />
<h:inputText id="userFirstName" value="#{userBean.selectedUser.firstName}" />
<h:commandLink value="save" action="#{userBean.saveUserAction}"/>
This worked as expected -- if the user clicked "save" and the login name failed validation, the submitted values for both text fields were re-displayed, along with an error message next to the login field.
So I wanted to add AJAX support for validation when the user blurred focus on the field.
<h:inputText id="userLogin" value="#{userBean.selectedUser.login} validator="#{userBean.loginValidator}" >
<a4j:support event="onblur" ajaxSingle="true" reRender="myMessages" />
</h:inputText>
<rich:messages id="myMessages" />
<h:inputText id="userFirstName" value="#{userBean.selectedUser.firstName}" />
<h:commandLink value="save" action="#{userBean.saveUserAction}"/>
When the user blurs focus on the text field, the validator is called and the appropriate message is generated and displayed.
However, if the user clicks "save" anyway, I would expect the "Apply Request Values" phase to fail validation and re-display the submitted values. This isn't what happens, and instead the submitted values are blank/null again ... and so all the changes made by the user are lost.
If I remove the a4j:support tag, it immediately goes back to working as expected with the submitted values re-displayed upon validation error.
Any help / tips / input would be appreciated.
Thank you.
