Primefaces 8.0 JSF not updating table [duplicate] - jsf

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When I click addTagButton, everything works well. It updates all three components: tags, tagId and addTagButton.
<p:commandButton id="addTagButton" icon="ui-icon-plus"
action="#{searchBean.addTag}"
update="tags, tagId, addTagButton"
disabled="#{searchBean.tagChoices.size() == 0}">
</p:commandButton>
Here's the table component:
<h:dataTable id="tags" var="tag" value="#{searchBean.tags}">
<h:column>
<div style="text-align:right;">
<h:outputLabel value="#{tag.typeName}:"/>
</div>
</h:column>
<h:column>
<p:inputText id="tag" size="25" value="#{tag.typeValue}"
disabled="#{searchBean.searchForParent}"/>
</h:column>
<h:column>
<p:commandButton id="delTagButton" icon="pi pi-trash"
action="#{searchBean.deleteTag}"
update=":contentForm:tagId, :contentForm:addTagButton, tags">
<f:setPropertyActionListener
target="#{searchBean.tagId}"
value="#{tag.typeName}" />
</p:commandButton>
</h:column>
</h:dataTable>
When i click on delTagButton that is on each row in tags table, action works fine, :contentForm:tagId and :contentForm:addTagButton update fine. But tags table which is where clicked command button exist, does not update.
When a row is deleted, change must reflect in the tags table which does not work.
Now, If I change h:dataTable to p:dataTable or any other primefaces component, it works. I am trying to make it work with h:dataTable.
Primefaces 8.0, JSF 2.5

Answer 1

Look on this simple example:
<h:form id="form">
<h:panelGroup id="wrapper" layout="block">
<h:dataTable id="table" border="1" value="#{testBean.list}" var="person">
<h:column>#{person.name}</h:column>
<h:column>#{person.surname}</h:column>
<h:column>
<p:commandButton id="delTagButton" icon="pi pi-trash"
action="#{testBean.remove(person)}" update="table">
</p:commandButton>
</h:column>
</h:dataTable>
</h:panelGroup>
</h:form>
To really find out what is being updated look in browser console.
If you're trying to update="table" nothing happens (like in your code). If you try to update a parent of the table (which is often a case), you will get an error an error:
SEVERE: Error Rendering View[/example.xhtml]
org.primefaces.expression.ComponentNotFoundException: Cannot find component for expression "wrapper" referenced from "form:table:0:delTagButton".
at org.primefaces.expression.SearchExpressionFacade.cannotFindComponent(SearchExpressionFacade.java:677)
So we could try with "older" parent and realize that update="#form" works! OK, so we want to help to find id="table\wrapper" component. Let try clientId update="form:table". Like with update="table" nothing happens. And no error from PF (so the element can be found). This could mean that h:dataTable cannot be properly re-rendered from inside itself (but I don't want to throw stones:-)). This is often a case with e.g. popups in JSF 3rd party component libraries.
In this particular example I'd say, you have to update form:wrapper (adding form: works) or just #form to get it work. With your code it would be the same. Try to update some table parent or the whole form.
All of above is tested in JSF 2.2, with last RF, an old PF and OmniFaces. But I think the same would be the case with newer versions.
BTW. I didn't know there is JSF 2.5 :-)