Bootsfaces checkbox - jsf

<p:selectBooleanCheckbox value="#{dropdownView.value}">
<p:ajax update="msgs" listener="#{dropdownView.add}" />
</p:selectBooleanCheckbox>
In primefaces I am able to call bean method to perform action on click of checkbox with the above code.
But I am unable to call bean method to perform action on click of selectBooleanCheckbox in Bootsfaces.
Can anyone please help regarding how to successfully call a bean method which displays message true or false onclick of selectBooleancheckbox in Bootsfaces.
I have tried this, but it's not working:
<b:selectBooleanCheckbox value="#{dropdownView.value}"
update="msgs" onchange="ajax:ajaxBean.add()" />
I am new to bootsfaces. Any help would be appreciated.Thank you

The BootsFaces showcase has an example how to use AJAX with checkboxes. Our example uses onclick instead of onchange. Other than that, everything seems to be identical. I didn't check that yet, but it's possible b:checkbox doesn't support onchange (although I don't see why not - we've implemented both events).
By the way, the other approach using f:ajax / p:ajax and a listener should work, too. But we've added this feature later, so we don't guarantee that the traditional JSF style of AJAX always works with BootsFaces.

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onchange="submit()" reloads my PrimeFaces Mobile page

I am having a problem with my JSF project, where I am using PrimeFaces Mobile. This page has several pm:views
I have a list of radio buttons, which looks like this:
<p:selectOneRadio value="#{bean.currentElement}" converter="omnifaces.SelectItemsConverter"
onchange="submit()"
valueChangeListener="#{bean.elementChanged}">
<f:selectItems value="#{bean.currentItem.elements}" var="element"
itemLabel="#{element.elementName}" itemValue="#{element}" />
</p:selectOneRadio>
My valueChangeListener looks like this:
public void elementChanged(ValueChangeEvent e) {
currentElement = (Element) e.getNewValue();
System.out.println(getCurrentElement().getElementName());
}
The problem is, whenever I click on a radio button element, my page completely reloads to the start view, which has to do with the onchange="submit()". I have also tried f:ajax elements, but this doesn't seems to be working with my radio buttons, because I can't click them when I use this.
Is there a possiblty to just submit my current form or pm:view (without the f:ajax)?
PS: I have also tried exactly this on a single PrimeFaces Mobile page, which completely worked, since the application just consisted of one page.
When using PrimeFaces components, you should be using <p:ajax> instead of <f:ajax>. Just get rid of the onchange="submit()". This indeed invokes a synchronous (non-ajax) form submit which totally explains the page reload. You also need to replace valueChangeListener by <p:ajax listener>. The valueChangeListener is the wrong tool for the job whereby you're merely interested in invoking a JSF action method when the newly selected value is being set.
All in all, the rewrite should look like this:
<p:selectOneRadio value="#{bean.currentElement}" converter="omnifaces.SelectItemsConverter">
<f:selectItems value="#{bean.currentItem.elements}" var="element"
itemLabel="#{element.elementName}" itemValue="#{element}" />
<p:ajax listener="#{bean.elementChanged}" />
</p:selectOneRadio>
Don't forget to remove the ValueChangeEvent argument from the elementChanged() method. In order to access the selected value, just access the currentElement property directly.
See also:
When to use valueChangeListener or f:ajax listener?

Execution order of events when pressing PrimeFaces p:commandButton

I am trying to execute a JSF2 bean method and show a dialog box after completion of the method on click of PrimeFaces <p:commandButton>.
<p:commandButton id="viewButton" value="View"
actionlistener="#{userBean.setResultsForSelectedRow}" ajax="false"
update=":selectedRowValues"
oncomplete="PF('selectedRowValuesDlg').show()">
</p:commandButton>
<p:dialog id="selectedRowValues" widgetVar="selectedRowValuesDlg" dynamic="true">
<h:outputText value="#{userBean.selectedGroupName}" />
</p:dialog>
When I click on the command button, the bean action listener method setResultsForSelectedRow executes properly, but it does not show the dialog box when the method completes. If I remove actionlistener, it shows the dialog box. I do not know what is going wrong.
What is the execution order of events? Is it possible to execute actionlistener and oncomplete simultaneously?
It failed because you used ajax="false". This fires a full synchronous request which in turn causes a full page reload, causing the oncomplete to be never fired (note that all other ajax-related attributes like process, onstart, onsuccess, onerror and update are also never fired).
That it worked when you removed actionListener is also impossible. It should have failed the same way. Perhaps you also removed ajax="false" along it without actually understanding what you were doing. Removing ajax="false" should indeed achieve the desired requirement.
Also is it possible to execute actionlistener and oncomplete simultaneously?
No. The script can only be fired before or after the action listener. You can use onclick to fire the script at the moment of the click. You can use onstart to fire the script at the moment the ajax request is about to be sent. But they will never exactly simultaneously be fired. The sequence is as follows:
User clicks button in client
onclick JavaScript code is executed
JavaScript prepares ajax request based on process and current HTML DOM tree
onstart JavaScript code is executed
JavaScript sends ajax request from client to server
JSF retrieves ajax request
JSF processes the request lifecycle on JSF component tree based on process
actionListener JSF backing bean method is executed
action JSF backing bean method is executed
JSF prepares ajax response based on update and current JSF component tree
JSF sends ajax response from server to client
JavaScript retrieves ajax response
if HTTP response status is 200, onsuccess JavaScript code is executed
else if HTTP response status is 500, onerror JavaScript code is executed
JavaScript performs update based on ajax response and current HTML DOM tree
oncomplete JavaScript code is executed
Note that the update is performed after actionListener, so if you were using onclick or onstart to show the dialog, then it may still show old content instead of updated content, which is poor for user experience. You'd then better use oncomplete instead to show the dialog. Also note that you'd better use action instead of actionListener when you intend to execute a business action.
See also:
Understanding PrimeFaces process/update and JSF f:ajax execute/render attributes
Differences between action and actionListener
I just love getting information like BalusC gives here - and he is kind enough to help SO many people with such GOOD information that I regard his words as gospel, but I was not able to use that order of events to solve this same kind of timing issue in my project. Since BalusC put a great general reference here that I even bookmarked, I thought I would donate my solution for some advanced timing issues in the same place since it does solve the original poster's timing issues as well. I hope this code helps someone:
<p:pickList id="formPickList"
value="#{mediaDetail.availableMedia}"
converter="MediaPicklistConverter"
widgetVar="formsPicklistWidget"
var="mediaFiles"
itemLabel="#{mediaFiles.mediaTitle}"
itemValue="#{mediaFiles}" >
<f:facet name="sourceCaption">Available Media</f:facet>
<f:facet name="targetCaption">Chosen Media</f:facet>
</p:pickList>
<p:commandButton id="viewStream_btn"
value="Stream chosen media"
icon="fa fa-download"
ajax="true"
action="#{mediaDetail.prepareStreams}"
update=":streamDialogPanel"
oncomplete="PF('streamingDialog').show()"
styleClass="ui-priority-primary"
style="margin-top:5px" >
<p:ajax process="formPickList" />
</p:commandButton>
The dialog is at the top of the XHTML outside this form and it has a form of its own embedded in the dialog along with a datatable which holds additional commands for streaming the media that all needed to be primed and ready to go when the dialog is presented. You can use this same technique to do things like download customized documents that need to be prepared before they are streamed to the user's computer via fileDownload buttons in the dialog box as well.
As I said, this is a more complicated example, but it hits all the high points of your problem and mine. When the command button is clicked, the result is to first insure the backing bean is updated with the results of the pickList, then tell the backing bean to prepare streams for the user based on their selections in the pick list, then update the controls in the dynamic dialog with an update, then show the dialog box ready for the user to start streaming their content.
The trick to it was to use BalusC's order of events for the main commandButton and then to add the <p:ajax process="formPickList" /> bit to ensure it was executed first - because nothing happens correctly unless the pickList updated the backing bean first (something that was not happening for me before I added it). So, yea, that commandButton rocks because you can affect previous, pending and current components as well as the backing beans - but the timing to interrelate all of them is not easy to get a handle on sometimes.
Happy coding!

ui:repeat with a list sending right object to a p:dialog

I currently have a giant ui:repeat. Within this ui:repeat, some of the repeated objects have a url to a popup image associated with them. When someone clicks display under that particular object, I need the url to popup in a p:dialog.
<ui:repeat var="thing" value="#{bean.thingList}">
<p:commandLink value="details" onclick="miniImage.show();"
update=":#{p:component('chart')}"
action="#{bean.setCurrentImg(thing.imageUrl)}"
rendered="#{thing.includeImage}">
</p:commandLink>
</ui:repeat>
and at the bottom of the page:
<p:dialog id="chart" widgetVar="miniImage" >
<h:graphicImage value="#{bean.currentImg}"/>
</p:dialog>
And in the backing bean I tried using a simple setter and getter for currentImg.
I am a bit confused on this now and would like to accomplish this without having to submit the entire form as well. Any help is greatly appreciated.
If you're using PrimeFaces 3.3 or newer, you could just add partialSubmit="true" to the command component. You can then control the to-be-processed components in process attribute. In this particular case, just the current component (the command component itself) is sufficient, thus so process="#this":
<p:commandLink ... process="#this" partialSubmit="true" />
This way only the request parameters which are really necessary for the process will be sent.
Unrelated to the concrete problem, I suggest to use oncomplete instead of onclick to open the dialog. Otherwise the dialog is opened before update takes place and may cause poor user experience as the enduser would see the image instantly changing.

have to press command button twice

I'm working on building a web page and notice now that I have to press the command button twice. Any command button has the same problem, so I figured I would add and action listener on one of them to see if I could see something.
<h:form id="formP">
<p:commandButton id="temp" value="photos" actionListener="#{viewBacking.debugBreakpoint()}" action="userPhoto" />
</h:form>
The backing bean has
public void debugBreakpoint() {
int i = 0;
i++;
}
Unfortunately, this does help. It hits my breakpoint only after the second press. I suspect that some field somewhere isn't passing validation but I would like some method of detecting what exactly is going wrong - why do I need the second push? Is there some option I can turn on in Glassfish, or something else where I can look at a dump of debug information? I can ignore the dump until everything is stable and then see what exactly is happening when I press the button for the first time.
Is there any such tool which I can use?
That can happen when a parent component of the given <h:form> has been rendered/updated by another command button/link with <f:ajax>. The given form will then lose its view state which it would only get back after submitting the form for the first time. Any subsequent submits will then work the usual way. This is caused by a bug in JSF JS API as descibred in JSF issue 790 which is fixed in the upcoming JSF 2.2.
You need to fix the another command button/link with <f:ajax> to explicitly include the client ID of the given <h:form> in the render.
<f:ajax render=":somePanel :formP" />
Another way is to replace this <f:ajax> by a PrimeFaces <p:commandLink> or <p:commandButton> so that you don't need to explicitly include the client ID of all the forms. PrimeFaces's own JS API has namely already incorporated this fix.
add event="onclick" in your p:commandbutton
I guess that will sort it out.
or you can add this ajax="false" property in your commandButton
<p:commandButton ajax="false" action="#{userController.create}" value="#{bundle.CreateUserSaveLink}"></p:commandButton>
I ran into the same issue. The solution was simple, instead of having both an actionListener and an action, just convert the actionListener method to return a string to where you want to navigate to and use it as the method for the action (and don't have an actionListener).
In simple terms: only use an action (do not use an actionListener on a commandButton that is submitting a form).
Please check your binding with bean.
bean fields should be String or non primitive.

How to update a h:inputHidden with p:commandButton?

I writed an ajax request for any data. But the data don't work with h:inputHidden.
I think it's a bug of Primefaces.
But I don't know how to get the data now.
code:
<h:inputHidden id="buttonData" value="#{buttonDataBean.buttonData}" />
...
<p:commandButton id="getData" action="#{buttonAction.getButtonData}" update="buttonData" />
When I click the commandButton, the value of don't work.
But if I use the h:outputText, it worked.
My requirement:
Before click the commandButton, I have create any html buttons dynamically. I want to click the commandButton and update the name and position of html buttons. So that I must get any data and update the html buttons with Javascript.
how could I do about it?
If I want to use the JavaScript to get the ajax data, how to do it. I see the document and find two method: jsf.ajax.request() and Primefaces.ajax.AjaxRequest(). But I don't know how to use the two method. for example: Primefaces.ajax.AjaxRequest("test.xhtml",,). The "test.xhtml" how to request the method testMethod of TestAction?
use firebug to inspect html code. you can see new value
<h:form id="form">
<h:inputHidden id="buttonData" value="#{buttonDataBean.buttonData}" />
<p:commandButton id="getData" value="button"
action="#{buttonDataBean.buttonAction}" update="buttonData" />
</h:form>
If your problem does not get solved with primefaces ajax, you can use the native ajax provided by jsf have a look at it.It works, i have done many such things with it.
Instead of using a hidden input you could take advantage of JSF and use a f:param or f:attribute.
Read this really fine article, under the brand of BalusC: http://balusc.blogspot.com/2006/06/communication-in-jsf.html .

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