rich:suggestionBox doesn't work with rich:dataTable in 3.3.2

[poesys]

Using 3.3.2.SR1 GA RichFaces, I'm using the rich:suggestionBox inside a rich:column in a rich:dataTable, and the suggestionBox doesn't appear (Ajax request/response happens but box is never rendered). The suggestion box works fine if not in a data table/column. I saw the JIRA bugs for earlier versions, tried ajaxSingle="false", no effect. I can make the suggestionBox work by putting a region around it with renderRegionOnly = "true", but I can't put the region around both columns (necessary because the object is to fill in the second column based on the choice in the first using the a4j:support inside the suggestionBox component): once two columns are in the region, the suggestion box does not appear. Is this a possible regression bug or is there something I can do to make this work?

Here's my code snippet:

                    <h:form>
                        <a4j:outputPanel id="submissionPanel">
                            <a4j:log
                                popup="true"
                                level="ALL"
                                width="800"
                                height="400" />
                            <rich:dataTable
                                id="locusTable"
                                rows="0"
                                value="#{geneSubmission.genes}"
                                var="gene"
                                ajaxKeys="#{geneSubmission.genesToUpdate}">
                                <rich:column>
                                    <h:inputText
                                        value="#{gene.locus}"
                                        id="locus"
                                        size="9">
                                    </h:inputText>
                                    <rich:suggestionbox
                                        suggestionAction="#{geneSubmission.suggestLoci}"
                                        var="l"
                                        for="locus"
                                        minChars="5"
                                        eventsQueue="locusQueue"
                                        ignoreDupResponses="true"
                                        fetchValue="#{l.name}"
                                        nothingLabel="No locus found"
                                        ajaxSingle="false"
                                        width="100"
                                        height="300">
                                        <h:column>
                                            #{l.name}
                                        </h:column>
                                        <a4j:support
                                            event="onselect"
                                            action="#{geneSubmission.setLocusSymbol}"
                                            reRender="symbol, fullName">
                                            <f:setPropertyActionListener
                                                value="#{l.name}"
                                                target="#{gene.locus}" />
                                        </a4j:support>
                                    </rich:suggestionbox>
                                </rich:column>
                                <rich:column>
                                    <h:inputText
                                        value="#{gene.symbol}"
                                        id="symbol"
                                        size="5">
                                    </h:inputText>
                                </rich:column>
                                <rich:column>
                                    <h:inputText
                                        value="#{gene.fullName}"
                                        id="fullName"
                                        size="20"
                                        maxlength="200">
                                    </h:inputText>
                                </rich:column>
                            </rich:dataTable>
                        </a4j:outputPanel>
                    </h:form>

[ilya_shaikovsky]

addded column with suggestions to one of the demo samples and it works fine for me under 3.3.3-SNAPSHOT.

          <rich:dataTable rowKeyVar="row" value="#{capitalsBean.capitals}" var="cap" rows="20" reRender="ds" id="simpletable">
               <f:facet name="header">
                    <rich:columnGroup>
                         <rich:column colspan="2" > 
                              <h:outputText value="Filtering Example"/>
                         </rich:column>     
                         <rich:column breakBefore="true">
                              <h:outputText value="State Name"/>
                         </rich:column>
                         <rich:column>
                              <h:outputText value="State Capital"/>
                         </rich:column>
                    </rich:columnGroup>
               </f:facet>
               <rich:column style="background-color:#{(row mod 2 eq 0)? a4jSkin.generalBackgroundColor : a4jSkin.additionalBackgroundColor}" filterBy="#{cap.state}" filterEvent="onkeyup" filterValue="#{capitalsBean.currentStateFilterValue}">
                    <h:outputText value="#{cap.state}"/>
               </rich:column> 
               <rich:column filterBy="#{cap.name}" filterEvent="onkeyup" filterValue="#{capitalsBean.currentNameFilterValue}">
                    <h:outputText value="#{cap.name}"/> 
               </rich:column>
               <rich:column>
                    <h:inputText id="in"/>
                    <rich:suggestionbox for="in" suggestionAction="#{capitalsBean.autocomplete}">
                         <h:column >
                              123
                         </h:column>
                    </rich:suggestionbox>
               </rich:column>
               <f:facet name="footer">
                    <rich:datascroller id="ds" renderIfSinglePage="false"></rich:datascroller>
               </f:facet>

</rich:dataTable>

[poesys]

So, back to work

I went through my code example and one-by-one removed all the attributes that weren't in Ilya's attempt to reproduce the problem.

Voila: on removing the rich:dataTable attribute ajaxKeys

ajaxKeys="#{geneSubmission.genesToUpdate}"

everything worked. I went back to my original code, removed that attribute, and the original code now works fine.

So my guess is that there is a bug involving a conflict between the suggestionBox data table and the outer data table involving the ajaxKeys functionality. Here is the minimal code that reproduces the problem for me:

        <f:view>
            <h:form>
                <a4j:outputPanel id="submissionPanel">
                    <rich:dataTable
                        id="locusTable"
                        rows="20"
                        value="#{geneSubmission.genes}"
                        var="gene"
                        ajaxKeys="#{geneSubmission.genesToUpdate}">
                        <rich:column>
                            <h:inputText
                                value="#{gene.locus}"
                                id="locus">
                            </h:inputText>
                            <rich:suggestionbox
                                for="locus"
                                suggestionAction="#{geneSubmission.suggestLoci}">
                                <h:column>
                                    <h:outputText value="123" />
                                </h:column>
                            </rich:suggestionbox>
                        </rich:column>
                    </rich:dataTable>
                </a4j:outputPanel>
            </h:form>
        </f:view>

The obvious workaround is to not use ajaxKeys in this situation. So I won't.