Hello everybody,

I am now successfully using seam with pageflows for wizards :-) very nice.
I would like to be able to parameterize @Factory or what @DataModel returns from my bean dependent on the page/pageflow etc.. the bean was instantiated in.

What I am doing now is to have a bean that models the flow that is injected with one or more editors that display selectable items.
Depending on the Class the ItemEditor is injected into I would like to set members in the ItemEditor that influence the outcome of @DataModel.

Trying something like below results in (I tried to follow the debug output):
INFO [ConversationInterceptor] no long-running conversation for @Conversational bean: itemEditor
then the criteria seem to be set
and afterwards the long running conversation starts, but without criteria.

thank you very much
ido

@Conversational
class PageFlowBean ...{

 @In (create=true)
 private ItemEditor itemEditor;

 @Begin(join=false,pageflow="editFlow1")
 public void createItem() {
 itemEditor.setCriteria("car");
 }
}

@Name("itemEditor")
@Scope(ScopeType.CONVERSATION)
@Stateful
class ItemEditorBean implements ItemEditor {
 @PersistenceContext(type=PersistenceContextType.EXTENDED)
 private EntityManager em;

 String criteria;
 public void setCriteria(String criteria){
 this.criteria = criteria;
 }

 @DataModel(scope=ScopeType.PAGE)
 private List<Item> itemList;
 @DataModelSelection(value="itemList")
 private Item item;

 ......

 @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
 @Factory(value="itemList")
 public void loadItems{
 if( criteria != null){
 itemList = em.createQuery("from Item as item where item = '"+ criteria + "'" );
 }
 }

 @Create
 public void initialize() {

}