h:inputText not updating

[phasor]

Hi all,


I´m having an issue when i try to update an h:inputText control that loads it´s value from conversation context :

<h:inputText name="oneName" value="#{myName}"/>
       
The very same page contains a h:commandButton that simply changes the myName conversation variable

<h:commandButton actionListener="#{dummyMain.setNameConversation}" value="Update Me" />
        
And the component implementation contains the following code:

        @Out(value="myName",required=false)
        @In(value="myName",required=false)
        private String name;


public void setNameConversation(ActionEvent event)
{
                this.name="Something else";
}

After clicking the updateMe commandButton i expected to see the "something else" string in the oneName inputText, but it remains unchanged.
Shouldn´t seam outject name variable after setNameConversation invocation? What am i´m doing wrong?




Thanks in advance
Bruno

[arturfriesen]

Is setNameConversation called after you click the Button?
Do you wrap your code in a h:form tag?

[phasor]

Hi,

setconversation was called. Actually i made a change to the mentioned code including a redirect=true on the page navigation definition and also changing the listener to action instead of actionListener.
But now i ran into another issue. If i returned null from action method the input wasn´t updated. But if i returned "/mypage.xhtml" everything works as expected and inputText was reset. Navigation Handler shouldn´t treat "return null" as "navigate to the same page" and redirect to page before render, according to redirect=true expression?

Thanks in advance

[kragoth]

Returning null from your action method is a special case in JSF. I don't have time to go into all the details but essentially it will not build a new uiroot and not redirect you. Basically it will just rerender what was on the screen.

Instead just return and empty string "". (I think this works :S it's been a long time since I used standard JSF navigation).

[phasor]

Thank you all in helping me out on this issue.
That´s resolved.

Thanks
Bruno