Why Richface so many BUGS

[huyang]

Rencently,I want to use RF in my projects,But I entercounted so many bugs.

I spent 100+ hours on configuring it,but failed.My project use Myfaces(2.2.5),Primefaces(5.1) and PrettyFaces.

Bug1.Tracker Service not initialized. in some version(some 4s and 5), this bug existed. Resolve it by adding system-event-listener in faces-config.xml.

<system-event-listener>

            <system-event-listener-class>org.richfaces.services.InitializationListener</system-event-listener-class>

            <system-event-class>javax.faces.event.PostConstructApplicationEvent</system-event-class>

        </system-event-listener>

Bug2.There is NO org.richfaces.Scripts(some 4 versions),org.richfaces.ui.Scripts(5 version).

javax.faces.FacesException: Undefined component type org.richfaces.ui.Scripts
at org.apache.myfaces.application.ApplicationImpl.createComponent(ApplicationImpl.java:1464)
at javax.faces.application.ApplicationWrapper.createComponent(ApplicationWrapper.java:129)
at org.richfaces.javascript.JavaScriptServiceImpl.getOrCreateScriptResource(JavaScriptServiceImpl.java:107)
at org.richfaces.javascript.JavaScriptServiceImpl.addScript(JavaScriptServiceImpl.java:64)
at org.richfaces.ui.common.DivPanelRenderer.writeJavaScript(DivPanelRenderer.java:135)
at org.richfaces.ui.toggle.panelMenu.PanelMenuRenderer.doEncodeBegin(PanelMenuRenderer.java:86)



Lack Scripts class.

Bug3.Wrong generated resources links.the links generated start with /org.richfaces.resources/javax.faces.resouce/org.richfaces.staticResources/.

if u use

<servlet>

        <servlet-class>org.richfaces.webapp.ResourceServlet</servlet-class>

        <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>

    </servlet>

    <servlet-mapping>

        <servlet-name>Resource Servlet</servlet-name>

        <url-pattern>/org.richfaces.resources/*</url-pattern>

    </servlet-mapping>

So bad,you'll get fatal error,myfaces's FlashImpl throw NULLPOINTEREXCEPTION in isKeepMessages method.

  @Override

    public boolean isKeepMessages()

    {

        FacesContext facesContext = FacesContext.getCurrentInstance();

        log.info("facesContext:"+facesContext);

        ExternalContext externalContext = facesContext.getExternalContext();

        log.info("externalContext:"+externalContext);

        Map<String, Object> requestMap = externalContext.getRequestMap();

        log.info("requestMap:"+requestMap);

        Boolean keepMessages = (Boolean) requestMap.get(FLASH_KEEP_MESSAGES);

        log.info("keepMessages:"+keepMessages);

        return (keepMessages == null ? Boolean.FALSE : keepMessages);

    }

the first log output is NULL.

I've tried serveral versions,but there were some bugs as above.

I want to use the newest version 5.0.0.Alpha3 in projects.

Please help me.

[liuliu]

hi,

As far as i know,  you can not use RF with all this libs together without conflict. There is a bug in using with other libs like myfaces or primefaces. RF teams say they fixed this bug in last 4.5 release. I don't test yet.

[michpetrov]

Hi,

first of all the newest version of RichFaces is 4.5.0.Final, there will be no RichFaces 5. I'd think the bugs are caused by incompatibility between the various *Faces, we cannot guarantee those will run well together. But try running the app with RF 4.5 first.

[huyang]

I have remove all Primefaces packages and tags, there still have errors.

[huyang]

here is 5 version.http://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.richfaces/richfaces/5.0.0.Alpha3

[liuliu]

hi,

RF5 project is stopped for the moment AFAIK. for your project, you should start with mojarra and RF4.

[huyang]

It does not work(use mojarra & RF4.5.0.Final). ERRORS: Undefined component type org.richfaces.Scripts viewId=/jsfpages/main.xhtml location=C:\apache-tomee-webprofile-1.7.1\webapps\samples\jsfpages\main.xhtml phaseId=RENDER_RESPONSE(6) Caused by: javax.faces.FacesException - Undefined component type org.richfaces.Scripts at org.apache.myfaces.application.ApplicationImpl.createComponent(ApplicationImpl.java:1464)

[huyang]

Can you help me?

[liuliu]

hi,

you need show more detail of your code, the server, the libs etc.

[huyang]

Can you tell me u email or QQ number？

[liuliu]

there is my email in my profile.