Starting long running conversation in PostConstruct method and RichFaces.

[volkov.d]

Hello,
i am using weld 1.0.1, Glassfish 3.0.1, RichFaces 4.0.0M4 and have some problems. There is my bean:

@Named
@ConversationScoped
public class PartnerList implements Serializable {

    @Inject
    private PartnerManager pm;
    
    @Inject
    private Conversation conversation;
    
    private List<Partner> all;

    @PostConstruct
    private void loadPartnerList() {
        conversation.begin();
        all = pm.loadAll();
    }
    
    public List<Partner> getAll() {
     return all;
    }
}

And view:

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<h:form prependId="false">
     <rich:dataScroller id="scr" for="table"/>
     <rich:extendedDataTable value="#{partnerList.all}" frozenColumns="1"
          var="element" id="table" 
          style="height:400px; width:100%;" selectionMode="single" rows="20">
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     </rich:extendedDataTable>
        </h:form>
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The problem is: the conversation is created each time I do paging with rich:dataScroller.
I have found the solution here, and added a method to the bean:

 public void listener(ComponentSystemEvent event) {
           if (conversation.isTransient()) {
           //this code is newer executed
            conversation.begin();
           }
    }

and

<f:metadata>
         <f:event type="preRenderView" listener="#{partnerList.listener}"/>
 </f:metadata>

to the view.

conversation.begin() in beforePhase will newer executed, because conversation was already started in loadPartnerList and conversation.isTransient() always returns false, but somehow it helps. Why just conversation.begin() in PostConstruct doesn't work? Is there more elegant way to solve this problem without f:event and beforePhase?