Problem with Seam 3 application and RestEasy - FacesContext is not active

[wgaulke]

Hello,

i am facing a problem which is stressing me, maybe someone can help me out.

I want to add a REST interface to a running Seam 3 Web application. Implementing GET methods was easy until I wanted to use @Inject in the REST Interface, for example:

{code}
@ApplicationPath("/api")
public class RestApi extends Application{
}
Path("user")
public class UserApi {
    @Inject
    private PojoBean beant;
    @GET
    @Path("/test")
    public String test(){
        bean.doSomething();
        return "test";
    }
}
{code}

Without the bean.doSomething() the service works fine, but as soon as I try to use the bean I get the exception:

javax.enterprise.context.ContextNotActiveException: FacesContext is not active

    at org.jboss.seam.faces.environment.FacesContextProducer.getFacesContext(FacesContextProducer.java:53) [seam-faces-3.1.0.Final.jar:3.1.0.Final]

What I tried:

• RequestScope to API
• Adding Faces Servlet to the API path :<url-pattern>/api/*</url-pattern>
• Adding seam-rest module

My configuration

• JBoss AS 7.1.1
• Seam 3.1 (Faces Module, Solder, Persistence and Security)

Am I missing something? Any clues are appreciated!

[lightguard]

Could you paste your code for PojoBean please, also the full stack trace.

[wgaulke]

Hello Jason,

your comment opened my eyes, my Pojo code was:

{code}
@Named
@ViewScoped
public class TagList implements Serializable {
    @Inject
    private Logger log;
    @PersistenceContext
    private EntityManager em;
    ... methods ...
}
{code}

I shared it with a view, now the working code is:

{code}
@Named
@RequestScoped
public class TagList implements Serializable {
    @Inject
    private Logger log;
    @PersistenceContext
    private EntityManager em;
    ... methods ...
}
{code}

I must have been blind or something - obviously Pojos with view Scope cannot be injected in RESTeasy as the scope cannot be assembled during a REST request. I guess I have to refactor some parts

[wgaulke]

Actually I am not quite done with the topic.

During further implementation I noticed, that I got the "FacesContext is not active".

I debugged a bit and found out, that the seam-solder exception handling swallows all exceptions but is not able to invoce exception handlers as the faces context is not active -> this again rises the "FacesContext is not active" exception.

Has someone any hints for that? How can a spit out the whole stack trace?