RF4.1 rich:select and valueChangeListener issue

[undermanager]

I have the following component inside <h:form>...</h:form> in a JSF page:

<rich:select defaultLabel="Please select a value"

             value="#{itemsBean.selectedItem}"

             valueChangeListener="#{itemsBean.valueChanged}" >

  <f:selectItems value="#{itemsBean.items}" />

  <a4j:ajax event="change" render="target" execute="@this" />

</rich:select>

The related bean contains a method with the following signature:

public void valueChanged(ValueChangeEvent event)

The method uses event.getNewValue() to identify and process the selected item.  The separate "target" component displays the selected item - just to show the Ajax nature of the page update.

I'm seeing two issues:

1) My IDE (NetBeans 7) is complaining about "itemsBean.valueChanged" in the JSF page.  It throws a warning stating "Unknown property: 'valueChanged'".

2) If I ignore the above warning and run the code, then there is no Ajax request sent to the server when I use the <rich:select> object in the web page.  However, as soon as I take another action - such as clicking anywhere else on the page - then the Ajax event is sent to the server, and the page behaves as expected.  (I used "<a4j:log/>" to verify this).

I have seen other people mentioning apparently similar issues - so this may be a duplicate.

Are either of these known issues?

Am I doing something obviously wrong?

Thanks in advance.

Also, in case it helps:

I get the same NetBeans warning as in (1) above if I use "valueChangeListener" in <h:selectOneMenu>.

I am using:

NetBeans 7

Mojarra 2.1.3

Glassfish 3.1

RichFaces 4.1-Final

FireFox 9

[undermanager]

UPDATE:  FYI - By adapting the work-around given in this JIRA ticket...

https://issues.jboss.org/browse/RF-11617

...I was able to get the required functionality.

[kh.ramana]

Instead of using event="change" use the event as "selectItem".  It will work fine without any isses.

<a4j:ajax event="selectItem" render="target" execute="@this" />

The problem for event="change" is the focus of the pointer is on the selected field only. once u click on the outside the focus has been changed the event is firing.

So u can use the event as "selectItem" to full fill ur requirement.

Or u can go for h:selectOneMenu with event="valueChange".

[pvito]

Hi, undermanager

Try this solution:

<a4j:ajax event="valueChange" render="target" execute="@this" />

Regards, Vitaliy

[undermanager]

Thank you @Venkataramana and @Vitaliy.  In the end, I followed @Venkataramana's advice and reverted from rich:select back to h:selectOneMenu, with an ajax event of "valueChange".  That worked.

I was not able to apply "valueChange" to rich:select.  It threw a tag library error at run time.

I'm still curious, for the other issue, why NetBeans gives an IDE warning if I use "valueChangeListener" in rich:select.