<a4j:commandLink> action and oncomplete are incompatible

[ssamayoagt]

In Ricfaces 3.3 I use to use a combination of action, setPropertyActionListener and oncomplete to select from modalPopup (now called popupPanel with modal=true) to select values from lookup tables, for example:

Open popup:

<a4j:commandLink id="b1" render="pbec"

                                                                                action="#{entradaCatalogo.buscar('INE_UBICACION')}"

                                                                                oncomplete="#{rich:component('pbec')}.show()">

                                                                                <h:graphicImage id="g1" library="img" name="search16.png"

                                                                                          style="border:0" alt="Buscar ubicación"

                                                                                          title="Buscar ubicación" />

                                                                      </a4j:commandLink>

BTW this works ok.

Select value:

<a4j:commandLink id="l1" value="#{r.codigo}"

                                                            action="#{entradaCatalogo.seleccionar()}"

                                                            oncomplete="#{rich:component('pbec')}.hide();" render="#{render}">

                                                            <f:setPropertyActionListener target="#{ppEmpleado.dummy}"

                                                                      value="#{r.codigo}" />

                                                  </a4j:commandLink>

The backing bean selecionar() method is just a dummy method which should force post but this later commandLink doesnt invoke the method just executes the javascript attached to oncomplete event. BTW, I inspected the response from server and the expected render element came in the ajax response but the method seleccionar() in the backign bean was never executed. popupPanel has its own form and I'm sure that isn't wrongly defined inside other form.

Weird since first commandLink executes backing bean method then show the panel but second commandLink doesn't.

Has someone experienced this problem?

Regards.

[ssamayoagt]

Never mind.

After trial and error y found that <rich:componentControl> did the trick.

Regards.

[ilya_shaikovsky]

I'm not sure that component control versus rich:component could make a difference if talking about action excution on parent command component. It most probably related with some server side problem during the lifecycle.

working sample without component controls - http://richfaces-showcase.appspot.com/richfaces/component-sample.jsf?demo=dataTable&sample=dataTableEdit&skin=blueSky

and the real reason could be in failed validation/conversion during the open link click. use phaseTracker/messages to check it.

[ssamayoagt]

Little late but there is no validation error, pretty sure about that.

View and backing bean worked well with RF 3.3 but not with RF 4 until I changed oncomplete by componentControl to show the popup.

Regards.