Validation: What Am I Missing

[leesy]

Hi all,

I'm just trying to get my validation working on my page but I'm not having much luck.  I must be missing something simple so could someone have a quick look at my code below and see if you notice anything out of place.

Thanks,
Lee

The error message is created using:

getFacesMessages()
          .addToControlFromResourceBundleOrDefault(
              "customerName",
              SEVERITY_ERROR,
              "CustomerExternalIdDuplicate",
              "A customer with an external ID of {0} already exists.  Please choose another",
              getInstance().getExternalId());

My page - a modal dialog included via a4j:include. (I've tested the code out of the modal dialog though and still no luck):

<h:form id="modalForm">
      
      <h:messages globalOnly="true" />
      
      <fieldset>
      <s:validateAll>
      
      <f:facet name="aroundInvalidField">
        <s:span styleClass="errors" />
      </f:facet>
      <f:facet name="afterInvalidField">
        <s:div styleClass="errors">
          <s:message />
        </s:div>
      </f:facet>
      
      <ul class="layout form">
        <li>
          <label for="customerName">Name:</label>
          <s:decorate>
            <h:inputText id="customerName" value="#{customerHome.instance.externalId}" />
          </s:decorate>
        </li>
        <li>
            <label for="customerDisplayName">Display Name:</label>
            <s:decorate>
              <h:inputText id="customerDisplayName" value="#{customerHome.instance.displayName}" />
            </s:decorate>
          </li>
          <li>
            <label for="customerAccountManager">Account Manager</label>
            <s:decorate>
            <h:selectOneListbox id="customerAccountManager" value="#{customerHome.instance.accountManager}">
              <s:selectItems var="item" value="#{accountManagersList}" label="#{item.displayName}" hideNoSelectionLabel="true"/>
              <s:convertEntity /> 
            </h:selectOneListbox>
            </s:decorate>
          </li>
          <li>
            <label for="customerDemo">Demo Customer?</label>
            <s:decorate>
            <h:selectBooleanCheckbox id="customerDemo" value="#{customerHome.instance.demo}" />
            </s:decorate>
          </li>
          <li>
            <a4j:commandButton value="Add New Customer" action="#{customerHome.persist}" reRender="resultsTable"/>
          </li>
        </ul>
      </s:validateAll>
      </fieldset>
</h:form>

I'm just constantly getting the error

INFO: WARNING: FacesMessage(s) have been enqueued, but may not have been displayed.
sourceId=modalForm:j_id103:customerName[severity=(ERROR 2), summary=(A customer with an external ID of abc already exists.  Please choose another), detail=(A customer with an external ID of abc already exists.  Please choose another)]

The form input described in that error does exist, it just can't seem to link the message to it.  So - any suggestions?

[nimo22]

This:

INFO: WARNING: FacesMessage(s) have been enqueued, but may not have been displayed.
sourceId=modalForm:j_id103:customerName[severity=(ERROR 2),...

is okay and not a failure!

It says only, that this message which is enqueued and invisible can be shown when the validation of your specified value does not succeed.

But one thing, I cannot see: where is your validator in your form?

Do you use Hibernate-Validators? Are your validator in your entity-Bean?

[tamerg]

Add a outputPanel to h:messages and reRender it.

[leesy]

It says only, that this message which is enqueued and invisible can be shown when the validation of your
specified value does not succeed.

I used the word error in mistake.  I know it's a harmless message.  The trouble though is that the messages aren't showing when as far as I can see, they should be.  I always get this message in my log.

Do you use Hibernate-Validators? Are your validator in your entity-Bean?

Yes and Yes :)  I've got annotations like @NotEmpty and various others set in my entities.

Add a outputPanel to h:messages and reRender it.

Should I have to do that though?  I've just taken this code from the Seam documentation and some previous code, all which worked fine and had pretty much the same code as above.

[nimo22]

The only (important) thing you have missed, is to set the Tag:

required=true

in all your components which should be validated:

for example:

<h:inputText required="true" ..>

then, it should be work!

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[joblini]

Try changing

<h:messages globalOnly="true" />

to

<h:messages globalOnly="false" />