Problem with a4j:commandLink within table

[hrbaer]

Hi folks,

I'm trying to use a a4j:commandLink within a table.
But when I click on the Link there is no action called.

So what I'm trying to reach is that you first have to push a button to get a table filled. And then - after pushing a button/link in the table a new "area" (in my case the details) get displayed.

What am I doing wrong?

Here is some code:

<f:view>
<rich:panel header="Header">

 <h:outputText value="blabla" />
 <h:panelGrid columns="1" width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" columnClasses="alignRight">
 <a4j:commandButton actionListener="#{mb.search}" value="Search" reRender="liste" />
 </h:panelGrid>

</rich:panel>

<br>
<rich:scrollableDataTable value="#{mb.liste}" var="list" width="70%" height="100px" id="liste">
 <rich:column>
 <f:facet name="header"><h:outputText styleClass="headerText" value="Name" /></f:facet>
 <a4j:commandButton actionListener="#{mb.showDetails}" value="Detail" reRender="detail" />
 </rich:column>
</rich:scrollableDataTable>

<rich:panel header="Detail" style="width: 70%;" id="detail" rendered="#{not empty mb.detail}">
 <h:outputText value="Test" />
</rich:panel>

</f:view>

When I use the first button "Search" the list get filled.
Now there a a few entries in the table with each of them has a new button "Detail". But when I click on this button, I don't reach my method in the bean ;(

And another problem:
Since I added the a4j:button in the table the header fields don't get displayed!?

[hrbaer]

Any ideas?

[angeldstu]

Hello.
You can try to surround your link with <h:form> or <a4j:form>.

[hrbaer]

"AngelDSTU" wrote:
Hello.
You can try to surround your link with <h:form> or <a4j:form>.

it is already. Not within the 'rich:scrollableDataTable' but directly at the beginning of the jsp.

Is there basically a problem to combine a 'rich:scrollableDataTable' with an 'a4j:commandLink'? Because when I add the exact 'a4j:commandLink' after the table there is no problem!

<rich:scrollableDataTable value="#{mb.liste}" var="list" width="70%" height="100px" id="liste">
 <rich:column>
 <f:facet name="header"><h:outputText styleClass="headerText" value="Name" /></f:facet>
 <a4j:commandLink actionListener="#{mb.showDetails}" value="Detail" reRender="detail" />
 </rich:column>
</rich:scrollableDataTable>

this code doesn't work.
But the next code does:

<rich:scrollableDataTable value="#{mb.liste}" var="list" width="70%" height="100px" id="liste">
 <rich:column>
 <f:facet name="header"><h:outputText styleClass="headerText" value="Name" /></f:facet>
 <h:outputText value="Detail" />
 </rich:column>
</rich:scrollableDataTable>
<h:panelGrid columns="1" width="70%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" columnClasses="alignRight">
 <a4j:commandLink actionListener="#{mb.showDetails}" value="Detail" reRender="detail" />
</h:panelGrid>

[ilya_shaikovsky]

which RF version used?

[hrbaer]

"ilya_shaikovsky" wrote:
which RF version used?

3.2.1.GA

[ilya_shaikovsky]

pelase check 3.3.1GA. there were such issues previously.. should works under latest GA.

[hrbaer]

"ilya_shaikovsky" wrote:
pelase check 3.3.1GA. there were such issues previously.. should works under latest GA.

thanks for that hint.
I will try this...

[hrbaer]

The change to 3.3.1 GA doesn't have any effect :(

Does anybody implements such a scenario?
Would be really thankfull for a code example. Doesn't have any ideas left...

[ilya_shaikovsky]

add phaseTracker to application and check it's output for unsuccessful request.

[hrbaer]

"hrbaer" wrote:
The change to 3.3.1 GA doesn't have any effect :(

Does anybody implements such a scenario?
Would be really thankfull for a code example. Doesn't have any ideas left...

I have to relativize this statement.
In adddition to the newest jar-files for richfaces (3.3.1.GA) I although had the older ones in my war-file. After removing them I'm getting this error:

java.lang.ClassCastException: org.richfaces.model.ScrollableTableDataRange
 at org.ajax4jsf.model.SequenceDataModel.walk(SequenceDataModel.java:84)
 at org.ajax4jsf.component.UIDataAdaptor.walk(UIDataAdaptor.java:1127)
 at org.richfaces.component.UIScrollableDataTable.walk(UIScrollableDataTable.java:413)
 at org.richfaces.renderkit.html.ScrollableDataTableBaseRenderer.renderGridBody(ScrollableDataTableBaseRenderer.java:555)
 at org.richfaces.renderkit.html.ScrollableDataTableRenderer.doEncodeEnd(ScrollableDataTableRenderer.java:405)
 at org.richfaces.renderkit.html.ScrollableDataTableRenderer.doEncodeEnd(ScrollableDataTableRenderer.java:606)
 at org.ajax4jsf.renderkit.RendererBase.encodeEnd(RendererBase.java:135)
 at org.richfaces.renderkit.html.ScrollableDataTableBaseRenderer.encodeEnd(ScrollableDataTableBaseRenderer.java:879)
 at javax.faces.component.UIComponentBase.encodeEnd(UIComponentBase.java:847)

In my lib-direcotry there is now only the following libs (related to richfaces):
richfaces-api-3.3.1.GA.jar
richfaces-impl-3.3.1.GA.jar
richfaces-ui-3.3.1.GA.jar

(When I use 3.3.0.GA there are no effects.)

[hrbaer]

"ilya_shaikovsky" wrote:
add phaseTracker to application and check it's output for unsuccessful request.

No differences beetween the link within the table and the link after the table.
Output for the table-link:

29.06.2009 14:54:15 org.exadel.jsf.PhaseTracker beforePhase
INFO: BEFORE RESTORE_VIEW 1
29.06.2009 14:54:15 org.exadel.jsf.PhaseTracker afterPhase
INFO: AFTER RESTORE_VIEW 1
29.06.2009 14:54:15 org.exadel.jsf.PhaseTracker beforePhase
INFO: BEFORE APPLY_REQUEST_VALUES 2
29.06.2009 14:54:15 org.exadel.jsf.PhaseTracker afterPhase
INFO: AFTER APPLY_REQUEST_VALUES 2
29.06.2009 14:54:15 org.exadel.jsf.PhaseTracker beforePhase
INFO: BEFORE PROCESS_VALIDATIONS 3
29.06.2009 14:54:15 org.exadel.jsf.PhaseTracker afterPhase
INFO: AFTER PROCESS_VALIDATIONS 3
29.06.2009 14:54:15 org.exadel.jsf.PhaseTracker beforePhase
INFO: BEFORE UPDATE_MODEL_VALUES 4
29.06.2009 14:54:15 org.exadel.jsf.PhaseTracker afterPhase
INFO: AFTER UPDATE_MODEL_VALUES 4
29.06.2009 14:54:15 org.exadel.jsf.PhaseTracker beforePhase
INFO: BEFORE INVOKE_APPLICATION 5
29.06.2009 14:54:15 org.exadel.jsf.PhaseTracker afterPhase
INFO: AFTER INVOKE_APPLICATION 5
29.06.2009 14:54:15 org.exadel.jsf.PhaseTracker beforePhase
INFO: BEFORE RENDER_RESPONSE 6
29.06.2009 14:54:16 org.exadel.jsf.PhaseTracker afterPhase
INFO: AFTER RENDER_RESPONSE 6

Output for the link after the table:

29.06.2009 14:54:57 org.exadel.jsf.PhaseTracker beforePhase
INFO: BEFORE RESTORE_VIEW 1
29.06.2009 14:54:57 org.exadel.jsf.PhaseTracker afterPhase
INFO: AFTER RESTORE_VIEW 1
29.06.2009 14:54:57 org.exadel.jsf.PhaseTracker beforePhase
INFO: BEFORE APPLY_REQUEST_VALUES 2
29.06.2009 14:54:57 org.exadel.jsf.PhaseTracker afterPhase
INFO: AFTER APPLY_REQUEST_VALUES 2
29.06.2009 14:54:57 org.exadel.jsf.PhaseTracker beforePhase
INFO: BEFORE PROCESS_VALIDATIONS 3
29.06.2009 14:54:57 org.exadel.jsf.PhaseTracker afterPhase
INFO: AFTER PROCESS_VALIDATIONS 3
29.06.2009 14:54:57 org.exadel.jsf.PhaseTracker beforePhase
INFO: BEFORE UPDATE_MODEL_VALUES 4
29.06.2009 14:54:57 org.exadel.jsf.PhaseTracker afterPhase
INFO: AFTER UPDATE_MODEL_VALUES 4
29.06.2009 14:54:57 org.exadel.jsf.PhaseTracker beforePhase
INFO: BEFORE INVOKE_APPLICATION 5
29.06.2009 14:54:57 org.exadel.jsf.PhaseTracker afterPhase
INFO: AFTER INVOKE_APPLICATION 5
29.06.2009 14:54:57 org.exadel.jsf.PhaseTracker beforePhase
INFO: BEFORE RENDER_RESPONSE 6
29.06.2009 14:54:57 org.exadel.jsf.PhaseTracker afterPhase
INFO: AFTER RENDER_RESPONSE 6

[hrbaer]

OK, now its getting realy strange.

I replaced all the ajax-functions by normal h:commandLinks/h:commandButtons. But instead reaching my method in the managed bean when using a link nothin happens!

So this is the "rest" of my code:

<rich:scrollableDataTable value="#{mb.liste}" var="list" width="70%" height="100px" id="liste">
 <rich:column>
 <f:facet name="header"><h:outputText styleClass="headerText" value="Name" /></f:facet>
 <h:commandLink actionListener="'#{mb.showDetails}" value="Detail" />
 </rich:column>
</rich:scrollableDataTable>
<h:panelGrid columns="1" width="70%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" columnClasses="alignRight">
 <h:commandLink actionListener="#{mb.showDetails}" value="Detail" />
</h:panelGrid>

So the link in the table doesn't have any effect but the same(!) link after the table does work!!

Does anybody has another idea?
Is it a problem with the rich:scrollableDataTable-tag? Are there any known problems with this tag? Or does anybody used it already with a link in it??

[hrbaer]

"hrbaer" wrote:

Does anybody has another idea?
Is it a problem with the rich:scrollableDataTable-tag? Are there any known problems with this tag? Or does anybody used it already with a link in it??

Indeed it's a problem with the rich:scrollableDataTable-tag!
The same code just replaced by rich:dataTable does work.

DOES NOT WORK:

<rich:scrollableDataTable value="#{mb.liste}" var="list" width="70%" height="100px" id="liste">
 <rich:column>
 <f:facet name="header"><h:outputText styleClass="headerText" value="Name" /></f:facet>
 <h:commandLink actionListener="'#{mb.showDetails}" value="Detail" />
 </rich:column>
</rich:scrollableDataTable>

DOES WORK:

<rich:dataTable cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="70%" id="liste2" border="0" var="record" value="#{mb.liste}">
 <rich:column>
 <f:facet name="header"><h:outputText styleClass="headerText" value="Name" /></f:facet>
 <h:commandLink actionListener="'#{mb.showDetails}" value="Detail" />
 </rich:column>
</rich:scrollableDataTable>

...I don't know what to do :(