Hello,

I ran into some trouble trying to start properly a pageflow.

First of all, let me explain the situation. I'm using JBoss 4.0.4GA with Seam 1.1.0GA

I have a SFSB that is responsible for choosing a flow and start it.

@Begin
public void init() {
 ...
 Pageflow.instance().begin(this.getPageflow());
}

The pageflow is defined as followed:

<?xml version="1.0"?>

<pageflow-definition name="test">

 <start-page name="start">
 <transition to="isUserLoggedIn"/>
 </start-page>

 <decision name="isUserLoggedIn" expression="#{loginAction.isUserLoggedIn}">
 <transition name="true" to="page1" />
 <transition name="false" to="page2" />
 </decision>
...
</pageflow-definition>

The flow is started in the RENDER_RESPONSE phase, so I can't use <start-state>
The issue I had is that the flow didn't start properly (I was redirected to an error page) but could not see anything wrong in the logs.

So I looked into the code, more exactly at the begin method of Pageflow.java.

public void begin(String pageflowDefinitionName)
{
 if ( log.isDebugEnabled() )
 {
 log.debug("beginning pageflow: " + pageflowDefinitionName);
 }

 processInstance = PageflowHelper.newPageflowInstance( getPageflowProcessDefinition(pageflowDefinitionName) );

 //if ( Lifecycle.getPhaseId().equals(PhaseId.RENDER_RESPONSE) )
 //{
 //if a pageflow starts during the render response phase
 //(as a result of a @Create method), we know the navigation
 //handler will not get called, so we should force the
 //pageflow out of the start state immediately
 //TODO: this is not actually completely true, what about <s:actionLink/>
 //pi.signal();
 //}

 setDirty();

 Events.instance().raiseEvent("org.jboss.seam.beginPageflow." + pageflowDefinitionName);

 storePageflowToViewRootIfNecessary();

}

There is a comment about what I believe is my case. I then solved the problem by adding the following line at the end of the SFSB init method:

Pageflow.instance().navigate(facesContext, null);

Now everything is fine but I believe this should be fixed in Seam. It seems to me that you guys know about it already, so any plan yet?

Regards,

Richard