hi,

i'm having a problem with bijection in conversation scope. i have two beans, one which is accessed from the first page and shows a list of categories, this bean oujects an Enum value to conversation scope:

@Name("competitionCategories")
public class CompetitionCategories {

     private List<Category> categoryList;
     @RequestParameter
     private Long competitionId;
     
     @In 
     EntityManager entityManager;
     
     @Out(required=true,scope=ScopeType.CONVERSATION)
     DemandMode mode = DemandMode.STANDARD;

        // getters and setters
}

the category display page:

<h:dataTable id="competitionCategories" var="cat"
  value="#{competitionCategories.categoryList}" 
  rendered="#{not empty competitionCategories.categoryList}">
  <h:column>
    <f:facet name="header">Name</f:facet>
      #{cat.name}
  </h:column>
  <h:column>
    <h:form>
      <f:facet name="header">Actions</f:facet>
      <s:link id="categoryResults" value="View Results"
        view="/competition/competitionResults.xhtml" propagation="join">
        <f:param name="category" value="#{cat.categoryId}" />
        <f:param name ="competitionId" value="#{competitionCategories.competitionId}"/>
      </s:link>
    </h:form>
  </h:column>
</h:dataTable>

categoryList.xhtml has #{conversation.begin} setup in pages.xml, links to competitionResults.xhtml propagate the conversation. i have the following bean referenced from competitionResults.xhtml:

@Name("competitionResults")
public class CompetitionResults {
     
     @In(required=true)
     DemandMode mode; // TODO: making required=true and resolving the dependencies of all pointing pages
     @In(required=false)
     QueryParameterList params;
     @In(required=false)
     String whereClause;
     @RequestParameter
     Long competitionId;
     @RequestParameter
     Long category;
     @Logger
     Log log;
     @In
     Session termcompSession;
     @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
     @In
     CacheProvider cacheProvider;

        // getters, setter, businessmethods
}

if i inspect the conversation in debug.seam, i can see that mode has been outjected into the conversation scope, but it is not being injected into CompetitionResults.java. if i change the declaration in CategoryList.java to @Out(scope=ScopeType.SESSION) it does get injected.

what am i doing wrong? am i doing anything wrong?

regards,
sb