Seam 2.3 PDF issue

[javacoryd]

We are converting a seam 2.1.1 app to Seam 2.3 and are having an issue with PDF generation.

On our page we have a cell defined as such:

<p:cell horizontalAlignment="right">

     <p:paragraph alignment="right">

        <p:text value="#{projectedTotals.someBigDecimal}">

              <f:convertNumber type="currency" currencySymbol="$"/>

        </p:text>

       </p:paragraph>

</p:cell>

It fails on the converter with this error below.  It's trying to convert the BigDecimal value.

@68,58 <f:convertNumber> Parent not an instance of ValueHolder: org.jboss.seam.pdf.ui.PdfUIDocument@6e0613b4

For some reason it's not seeing the <p:text> as the parent???

Thanks,

Cory.

[maschmid]

Mostly the same code is in the itext example in the Seam distribution and that seems to be working (see itext-web/src/main/webapp/format.xhtml ).  Can you check that the example works for you? Perhaps check if the p: namespace is the correct one. It should be xmlns:p="http://jboss.org/schema/seam/pdf" in Seam2.3

[javacoryd]

Thanks for the response,

So, after much research I found the issue to be the "sendRedirect="false"" attribute on <p:document>.  I posted the issue here:  https://community.jboss.org/thread/229030

We set this attribute so the pdf renders "inline" inside the html with a <object data="some.pdf" .... /> tag.  However, with Seam 2.3 it doesn't render anything.  I'm not sure as to what to put as the parent of <p:document> so that it renders this way.   We currently put the <p:document> in a <h:form>, but that isn't an instance of ValueHolder.

Thanks,

Cory.

[dev.hari]

Thanks for sharing the information on this.

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