help: simple pojo property not being updated (outjection and conversation)

[robertwalker]

Hi all, I am reading seam in action, and trying to use it as a tutorial for my app which has pages for a wizard.

my issue is, i am not seeing my pojo being populated as I traverse the wizard. (I have outjected the pojo that contains properties which I am not seeing populated) and made the manager bean conversation scoped.

my flow is this
1) click a link to start a converssation (debug.seam confirms my manager bean: MailboxManager is in conversation ontext)

<s:link action="#{mailboxManager.startWizard}" value="Start" />

and mailboxManager has startWizard annotated like such

// start a long running converstion
@Begin(join=true)
public String startWizard() {
        return "step1";
}

2) on the step1.xhtml page, I have a rich calendar which is mapped to my pojo's launchDate property

<h:form>
     <rich:calendar popup="false"
                       value="#{mailboxBean.launchDate}" />

3) my MailboxManager is

@Name("mailboxManager") 
@Scope(org.jboss.seam.ScopeType.CONVERSATION)
public class MailboxManager implements Serializable 
{
    @In(create=true)
    @Out
    private MailboxBean mailboxBean;

4) When I traverse to the next step in the wizard, mailboxBean is never updated with value from step1. I put a breakpoint in my MailboxBean.setLaunchDate() but it never executes  :-(

I know this is simple all, but I am struggling

[asookazian]

When you submit the form, the setLaunchDate() method will be executed prior to the action method in the h:commandButton or h:commandLink.

In step 2, the value is referencing a Seam component that should have @Name("mailboxBean").  Does that annotation exist?  And if you're using SFSB rather than JavaBean, remember that the business method must be in your @Local interface, otherwise Seam won't find it.

So if setLaunchDate() is in MailboxManager, then use mailboxManager rather than mailboxBean in step 2.

[robertwalker]

thanks for your reply, I am really excited about learning and using seam, just having some growing pains.

I do understand about the setLaunchDate() being called prior
to my action method being invoked.

my goto step 2 is a s:link like this

<s:link action="#{mailboxManager.step1}" propagation="join" value="next" />

so prior to mailboxManager.step1()  being invoked, I expect
mailboxBean.launchDate to be populated. I should not need to propagation attribute but i am trying different things to get this to work.

my pojo bean to store the data across the wizard steps (step1.xhtml, step2.xhtml, step.xhtml) is annotated like you mentioned it should be.

@Name("mailboxBean")
public class MailboxBean implements Serializable {

    // components and properties for Step 1
    private Date launchDate;

    // components and properties for Step 2
    private String exchangeMailboxName;

    public String getExchangeMailboxName() {return exchangeMailboxName;}
    public void setExchangeMailboxName(String exchangeMailboxName) {this.exchangeMailboxName = exchangeMailboxName;}

    public Date getLaunchDate() {return launchDate;}
    public void setLaunchDate(Date launchDate) {
        this.launchDate = launchDate;
    }

thanks again, any other suggestions?