faces messages in entity class causes validation failure???
Okay spent some more time trying to figure what was wrong in my code and observed that putting a faces messages togteher in an entity object caused my code to fail validation on a facelets form. Remove the faces message and it works fine
not sure if this is a bug but it doesnt feel right.
first off i have a form (its used as an embedded <a4j:include in a <rich:tapPanel in my home.xhtml.
here is the ui element included within a form in the home page. This is called as part of a wizard - i include a listing page which triggers this person.xhtml
page on a new
return from a button on the listing page
note the <s:decorate tags.
<!DOCTYPE composition PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<ui:composition xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
xmlns:s="http://jboss.com/products/seam/taglib"
xmlns:ui="http://java.sun.com/jsf/facelets"
xmlns:f="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core"
xmlns:h="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html"
xmlns:rich="http://richfaces.org/rich"
xmlns:a4j="http://richfaces.org/a4j"
template="layout/template.xhtml">
<ui:define name="body">
<a4j:outputPanel ajaxRendered="true">
<h:messages globalOnly="true" styleClass="message"/>
<rich:panel id="personDetail">
<f:facet name="header">person</f:facet>
<s:decorate id="firstNameDecoration" template="layout/edit.xhtml">
<ui:define name="label">First Name</ui:define>
<h:inputText id="firstName" required="true"
value="#{person.firstName}"/>
</s:decorate>
<s:decorate id="lastNameDecoration" template="layout/edit.xhtml">
<ui:define name="label">Last Name</ui:define>
<h:inputText id="lastName" required="true"
value="#{person.lastName}"/>
</s:decorate>
<s:decorate id="middleNameDecoration" template="layout/edit.xhtml">
<ui:define name="label">Middle Name</ui:define>
<h:inputText id="middleName"
value="#{person.middleName}"/>
</s:decorate>
<s:decorate id="nicknameDecoration" template="layout/edit.xhtml">
<ui:define name="label">Nickname</ui:define>
<h:inputText id="nickname"
value="#{person.nickName}"/>
</s:decorate>
<s:decorate id="sexDecoration" template="layout/edit.xhtml">
<ui:define name="label">Sex</ui:define>
<h:selectOneMenu value="#{person.sex}" id="personSex" >
<f:selectItem itemLabel="unspecified" itemValue="unspecified"/>
<f:selectItem itemLabel="female" itemValue="female"/>
<f:selectItem itemLabel="male" itemValue="male"/>
</h:selectOneMenu>
</s:decorate>
<s:decorate id="dateOfBirthDecoration" template="layout/edit.xhtml">
<ui:define name="label">Date Of Birth</ui:define>
<h:inputText id="dateOfBirth"
value="#{person.dateOfBirth}">
<s:convertDateTime type="date" dateStyle="medium" pattern="dd/mm/yyyy" />
</h:inputText>
</s:decorate>
<s:decorate id="dateOfMarriageDecoration" template="layout/edit.xhtml">
<ui:define name="label">Date Of Birth</ui:define>
<h:inputText id="dateOfMarriage"
value="#{person.dateOfMarriage }">
<s:convertDateTime type="date" dateStyle="medium" pattern="dd/mm/yyyy"/>
</h:inputText>
</s:decorate>
<s:decorate id="dateOfDeathDecoration" template="layout/edit.xhtml">
<ui:define name="label">Date Of Death</ui:define>
<h:inputText id="dateOfDeath"
value="#{person.dateOfDeath}">
<s:convertDateTime type="date" dateStyle="short" pattern="dd/mm/yyyy"/>
</h:inputText>
</s:decorate>
<s:decorate id="descriptionDecoration" template="layout/edit.xhtml">
<ui:define name="label">Description</ui:define>
<h:inputText id="description"
value="#{person.description}">
</h:inputText>
</s:decorate>
<div style="clear:both"/>
</rich:panel>
<div class="actionButtons">
<a4j:commandButton id="save"
value="Save"
action="#{personHome.persist}"
rendered="#{!personHome.managed}">
</a4j:commandButton>
<a4j:commandButton id="update"
value="Update"
action="#{personHome.update}"
rendered="#{personHome.managed}">
</a4j:commandButton>
<a4j:commandButton id="delete"
value="Delete"
action="#{personHome.remove}"
rendered="#{personHome.managed}">
</a4j:commandButton>
<a4j:commandButton view="/personList.xhtml"
action="#{personHome.clear}"
id="done"
value="Done">
</a4j:commandButton>
</div>
</a4j:outputPanel>
</ui:define>
</ui:composition>
lets take the first one - if we look at the backing entity (i have an @Factory method on the EntityHome class that returns the entity bean)
@Entity
...
@Transient
@In FacesMessages facesMessages;
...
public String getFirstName()
{
return (firstName == null) ? "<null>" : firstName;
}
public void setFirstName(String firstName)
{
//facesMessages.add("called person set first name #0", (firstName != null) ? firstName : "<null>");
this.firstName = (firstName != null) ? firstName : "<null>";
if (getName().contains("generic node:"))
setName (firstName);
else if (!getName().contains (firstName))
setName (firstName + " " + getLastName());
}
if i remove the comments on the faces messages then the web UI just errors when i submit the .persist method on the EntityHome object.
if i comment out the facesMessages as shown the code works fine. Leave it in and it errors with a validation failure in the .xhtml form saying it cant call the person.firstName method
can someone explain this??
there is a note in the seam documentation that the logger reference must be static for an entity object. is this true for facesMessages reference ?? If so why?
