tabPanel with switchType="client" rerendering all tabs on ajax events

[marweck]

Hi All,

I've googled and searched the RichFaces Jira a lot and couldn't find an answer.

I'm using richfaces 3.3.1 with myfaces 1.2.5 and facelets 1.1.14. on Tomcat 5.5 and Weblogic 9.

I have rich:tabPanels like this one:

            <rich:tabPanel width="100%" headerAlignment="left"

                switchType="client" id="tabPanel">

                <rich:tab label="A" id="tab_A" >

                    <ui:include src="page_A.xhtml"/>

                </rich:tab>

                <rich:tab label="B" id="tab_B" >

                    <ui:include src="page_B.xhtml"/>

                </rich:tab>

                 ...

They are all in client mode. All the tabs have their own h:form component.

The problem is: when I perform an ajax reRender on a4j:support or a4j:commanButton inside

one tab, all the other tabs are being rerendered no matter what I put in the reRender attribute of the

underlying ajax command.

Ex: The a4j:support below on the first selectOneMenu is causing a full reload on the other tabs.

        <h:outputLabel for="selectA" value="labelA" />

        <h:selectOneMenu id="selectA"  value="#{bean.fieldA}">

            <t:selectItems var="v" value="#{bean.queryResultA}"

                itemLabel="#{v.description}" itemValue="#{v.id}" />

            <a4j:support action="#{bean.update}"

                reRender="selectB" event="onchange" ajaxSingle="true"/>

        </h:selectOneMenu>

        <h:outputLabel for="selectB" value="labelB" />

        <h:selectOneMenu id="selectB"  value="#{bean.fieldB}">

            <t:selectItems var="v" value="#{bean.queryResultB}"

                itemLabel="#{v.description}" itemValue="#{v.id}" />

        </h:selectOneMenu>

The same happens on a different tab with a button like this:

       <a4j:commandButton value="Persist" ajaxSingle="true" process="someInputTextId"

             reRender="messagePainel" action="#{anotherBean.saveText}" />

Where there is a h:panelGroup with id="messagePanel" on the same tab and form of this

a4j:commandButton.

Do you guys know if it's an old or solved issue, or if there is a way for me to avoid this behavior?

Does it also happen to any of you?

Thanks in advance.

[ilya_shaikovsky]

I believe you talking about not actuall rendering but about getting the models by iteration components? Yup that's popular issue in the past(actually it's by design so to check for messages and outputPanels which should be rendered autocmatically). And to solve it - update to 3.3.3 Final (I jsut niot sure if the attribute works correctly in 3.3.1) and add limitToList="true" to action components which should render only components specified in reRender without additional look-ups.

Another one could be wrapping the content of the tab to region with renderRegionOnly=true,.

[marweck]

Thanks a lot.

This is what is really happening: http://www.logikdev.com/2010/03/02/limittolist-attribute-prevents-flashing/

All the <rich:> components are being rerendered no matter I ask them to do so.

Now, my application is ok.

Cheers,

[marweck]

Problem solved.

In all the a4j:support, a4j:commandLink or a4j:commandButton of my application I have put the limitToList="true" and now it's running smooth.

Thanks,