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[jose.ventura]

Hello, I'm having difficulties using rich:messages to display all messages for a particular field, using a hardcoded message
built inside a managed bean method. <h:messages for="someField"/> works, while <rich:messages for="someField"/> doesn't.

I'm using richfaces-ui-3.3.0.GA and facelets-1.1.14 .

In my .xhtml, I create a textfield, a message area and a submit button:

++ <h:messages /> ++
** <rich:messages/> **

<h:form id="classificationForm">
 <h:inputText id="theText" required="true"/>
 <h:commandButton type="submit" value="Send"
 action="#{ClassificationBean.testMethod}"/>
</h:form>

Here's the code for the above method:

public String testMethod() {
 FacesMessage fm = new FacesMessage( "hardcoded error!" );
 fm.setSeverity( FacesMessage.SEVERITY_ERROR );
 FacesContext.getCurrentInstance().addMessage( "theText", fm );
 return "";
}

If I leave the field blank and press the button, both h:messages and rich:messages show the "Required" error (OK).
If I put something in the field and press the button, both h:messages and rich:messages show the "hardcoded" error (OK).

Now I change it so they only show messages for a particular field:

++ <h:messages for="theText"/> ++
** <rich:messages for="theText"/> **

If I leave the field blank and press the button, both h:messages and rich:messages show the "Required" error (OK).
If I put something in the field and press the button, only h:messages shows the error. rich:messages doesn't show anything.

I am trying to debug this to narrow the cause, but I'm lost on where to begin. Is the rich:messages behaviour implemented in a Java class? If so, which one? If it's not a Java class, where can I start looking for the cause?

Thanks in advance!

[jose.ventura]

update: I saw the code in the following classes: org.richfaces.renderkit.html.HtmlRichMessagesRendered and org.richfaces.component.UIRichMessages

Seems the problem happens around line UIRichMessages:116 :

(...)
if (null != componentFor) {
 addMessagesForId(context, componentFor.getClientId(context), severenities);
}

(also, typo on "severenities", should it be "severities"?)

I then had the idea to modify my method to refer to the textfield using its full ID (that is, together with the form id):

public String testMethod() {
 FacesMessage fm = new FacesMessage( "hardcoded error!" );
 fm.setSeverity( FacesMessage.SEVERITY_ERROR );
 FacesContext.getCurrentInstance().addMessage( "classificationForm:theText", fm );
 return "";
}

This works on all cases. However, I'm still not sure that the behaviour should be different from the standard h:messages tag. Is this intentional?

Thanks in advance!

[nbelaevski]

You should use clientId (e.g. "classificationForm:theText") when message are added.