Free text search problem

[cash1981]

Hello.

I am trying to have a textbox, where I want to be able to search for a Person. I want the textbox to search for firstname, lastname and ssn.

But whatever I do, I cannot retrieve the search parameter the user inputs. I have tried to put a person object with @In and @Out in my action, and bind that to the output text, but then I got a property not found exception.
My method findPersons always returns fritext is empty.

SearchRegister.xhtml:

<ui:define name="body">
    <h:messages globalOnly="true" styleClass="message" id="globalMessages"/>

     <h:form id="personSearch" styleClass="edit">
        <rich:simpleTogglePanel label="Person search parameters" switchType="ajax">
            <s:decorate template="../layout/display.xhtml">
                <ui:define name="label">Person</ui:define>
                <h:inputText id="fritekstPerson" value="" title="fritekstPerson" />
            </s:decorate>
        </rich:simpleTogglePanel>
        
        <div class="actionButtons">
            <h:commandButton id="search" value="Search" action="#{searchRegisterManager.findPersons}"/>
        </div>
    </h:form>


     <rich:panel>
        <f:facet name="header">person search results</f:facet>
    <div class="results" id="person">
    
    <h:outputText value="The person search returned no results." 
               rendered="#{empty personerList}"/>

    <rich:dataTable id="person" var="person" value="#{personerList}">
        <h:column>
            <f:facet name="header">personId</f:facet>
            #{person.personId}
        </h:column>
        <h:column>
            <f:facet name="header">lastname</f:facet>
            #{person.lastname}
        </h:column>
        <h:column>
            <f:facet name="header">firstname</f:facet>
            #{person.firstname}
        </h:column>
        <h:column>
            <f:facet name="header">ssn</f:facet>
            #{person.ssn}
        </h:column>
    </rich:dataTable>

    </div>
    </rich:panel>

</ui:define>

And my SearchRegisterManagerAction.java:

@Stateful
@Name("searchRegisterManager")
@Scope(ScopeType.SESSION)
public class SearchRegisterManagerAction implements SearchRegisterManager {

     @PersistenceContext(type = EXTENDED)
     private EntityManager em;

     @In(required = false)
     private String fritekstPerson;

     @SuppressWarnings("unused")
     @DataModel
     private List<Person> personerList;

     @Logger
     private Log log;

     @Factory("personerList")
     @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
     public void findAllPersons() {
          if (fritekstPerson == null || fritekstPerson.equals("")) {
               log.info("Søker etter alle personer");
               personerList = em.createQuery("from " + Person.class.getName() + " p order by p.etternavn").getResultList();
          } else {
               log.info("Søker etter spesifisert person");
               personerList = em.createQuery("from " + Person.class.getName() + " p " +
                         "where p.fornavn like '%" + fritekstPerson + "%' " +
                         "OR p.etternavn like '%" + fritekstPerson + "%' " +
                         "OR p.personnummer like '%" + fritekstPerson + "%' " +
                         "order by p.etternavn").getResultList();
          }

          for (Person p : personerList) {
               log.info("Personnr: " + p.getPersonnummer());
          }
     }

     public void findPersons() {
          if (fritekstPerson == null || fritekstPerson.equals("")) {
               log.info("Whut, fritext is empty");
          } else {
               log.info("Søker etter spesifisert person");
               personerList = em.createQuery("from " + Person.class.getName() + " p " +
                         "where p.fornavn like '%" + fritekstPerson + "%' " +
                         "OR p.etternavn like '%" + fritekstPerson + "%' " +
                         "OR p.personnummer like '%" + fritekstPerson + "%' " +
                         "order by p.etternavn").getResultList();
          }
     }
     
     @Destroy
     @Remove
     public void destroy() {
     }
}

Help is greatly appreciated.

[mmichalek.mmichalek.micros-retail.com]

It doesn't look like the inputText component is bound to anything.

<h:inputText id="fritekstPerson" value="" title="fritekstPerson"/>

The value attribute on the inputText needs to be bound to something. I'm not sure if you can bind directly to a string as your example indicates, though.  Usually, a value binding involves a managed object/seam component and a field on that component.  For example:

<h:inputText id="fritekstPerson" value="#{personSearchCriteria.searchText}" title="fritekstPerson" />

With something like:

@Name("personSearchCriteria")
public class PersonSearchCriteria {
   private String searchText;
   // getters/setters, etc.   
}

If binding directly to a string is possible, I'd be interested in knowing that.

[cash1981]

Yes I know I have to bind to something.
I tried to bind to a Person object with @In and @Out annotation, but I got a property not found exception when I tried to use it.

I left the value blank so I could get some help.