JSF Primefaces row value null in Edit popup window - jsf

I am using JSF 2.0 with Primefaces 3.4.2
For some strange reason I am not able to get the value in popup dialog window when a command button of row in datatable is clicked. Not sure what am I doing wrong?
Any help is highly appreciable.
I have the following in JSF page
<p:dataTable id="dataTable" var="emp" lazy="true"
value="#{myMB.lazyModel}"
selection="#{myMB.selectedEmployee}"...>
<p:column>
<p:commandButton id="edit" update=":frmedit:editDlg" process="#this"
onmousedown="dlg.show()" icon="ui-icon-pencil"
title="Edit" >
<f:setPropertyActionListener value="#{emp}"
target="#{myMB.selectedEmployee}" />
</p:commandButton>
</p:column>
Dialog code
<h:form id="frmedit">
<p:dialog header="Employees" style="font-weight:bold"
widgetVar=Dialog" resizable="false" id="dlg"
showEffect="fade" hideEffect="fade" appendToBody="true"
modal="true" width="200" height="250">
<h:panelGrid columns="2" cellspacing="5">
<h:outputText value="Employee #" />
<h:outputText value="#{myMB.selectedEmployee.empNo}"
style="font-weight:bold" />
</h:panelGrid>
And finally in ManagedBean
#Named("myMB")
#ViewAccessScoped
private Employee selectedEmployee= new Employee();
with getters and setters
Update 1
<p:column>
<p:commandButton id="edit" update=":frmedit:display" process="#this"
title="View"
icon="ui-icon-pencil" style="border-width:0;background:none;"
onmousedown="Dialog.show()">
<f:setPropertyActionListener value="#{emp}"
target="#{myMB.selectedEmployee}" />
</p:commandButton>
</p:column>
<p:dialog header="Employees" style="font-weight:bold"
widgetVar=Dialog" resizable="false" id="dlg"
showEffect="fade" hideEffect="fade" appendToBody="true"
modal="true" width="200" height="250">
<h:form id="frmedit">
<h:panelGrid id="display" columns="2" cellspacing="5">
<h:outputText value="Employee #" />
<h:outputText value="#{myMB.selectedEmployee.empNo}"
style="font-weight:bold" />
</h:panelGrid>
</h:form>
</p:dialog>

The three main reasons why this would be the case are
The dialog was not actually ajax updated
The property listener didn't set the value. You could easily debug this by adding some logging to the setter for that property
The bean was actually recreated and the selectedEmployee property was re-initialized per your
line:
Employee selectedEmployee= new Employee();
Per your comments on the previous answer, you should not have widgetVar and id for the same dialog having the same value
My vote is on (3). You should verify that the bean is not actually being trashed and recreated (constructor or #PostConstructor logging).

Try widgetVar="dlg" instead, in <p:dialog...> , according to this Example you should call
dialog from its widgetVar attribute
so dlg.show() refers to widgetVar="dlg" not the id

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now I want to reload the datagrid after subscription or unsubscription
I load the data of the grid like that
#PostConstruct
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packages = packagehelper.getAllPackages();
getCurrentUserSubscritions();
}
and here is the xhtml file
<h:form id="form">
<p:growl id="growl" showDetail="true" sticky="false" life="8000" />
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>
<p:column>
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<h:outputText value="#{package.value} EGP for #{package.duration} Days " />
<h:outputText value="#{package.description}" />
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<f:setPropertyActionListener value="#{package.id}" target="#{packageView.packageID}" />
<f:setPropertyActionListener value="#{package.duration}" target="#{packageView.packageDuration}" />
</p:commandButton>
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<f:setPropertyActionListener value="#{package.id}" target="#{packageView.packageID}" />
<f:setPropertyActionListener value="#{package.duration}" target="#{packageView.packageDuration}" />
</p:commandButton>
</h:panelGrid>
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When an suscribe or unsuscribe action is completed, you should actualize the DataGrid trough its ID, it is, set an ID to the DataGrid and put such id in the update property of the buttons.
For example:
<p:dataGrid id="datalist" .../>
<p:commandButton action="#{packageView.Unsubscribe}" update="datalist" .../>
And when the action of the button is submited set the packages in null, so when the update action of the DataGrid update the packages they should be called again of the persistence or data base.
It is important to consider how to reference the elements in update property. You can see this answer

jsf required=true destroys setPropertyActionListener?

Using primefaces 4.0 and jsf 2.2.5
stmt.xhtml has 2 includes. IncludeDetail.xhtml and IncludeDuo.xhtml. IncludeDuo also includes IncludeDetail.
In IncludeDetail.xhtml the <ui:composition> Element owns no <form>, id-Attribute or any other special elements. Only <h:panelGrid>, <h:selectOneMenu> and <h:selectOneMenu>. Nothing special.
IncludeDuo.xhtml owns <p:layout> and <p:message> as child elements of <ui:composition>. Deeper inside the <p:layout> we find this piece of code:
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</p:dialog>
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<div class="nvg-dataTable">
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scrollable="false" styleClass="nvg-mainTable" paginator="true"
paginatorAlwaysVisible="false" rows="10"
rowsPerPageTemplate="10,25,100" paginatorPosition="bottom"
currentPageReportTemplate="({startRecord}-{endRecord} von {totalRecords})"
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<f:setPropertyActionListener value="#{tVar}" target="#{stmtBean.selectedElement}" />
</p:commandButton>
<p:commandButton value="N" update=""
oncomplete="PF('newDuoDialog').show()" icon="" title="Neue Regel mit diesem Statement als Grundlage">
<f:setPropertyActionListener value="#{tVar}" target="#{stmtBean.selectedElement}" />
</p:commandButton>
[ ... ]
Is this a bug or am I misusing sth?
This is expected behaviour: As you are setting the property on submit of the form the property is only set when the form is successfully submitted, which is not the case when validation fails i.e. a required field is empty.
Use process="#this" on the p:commandButton so the form is not submitted. This should work for you as you just want to open the dialog and set the property.

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<f:setPropertyActionListener target="#{shareController.current}" value="#{status}" />
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<h:outputText value="#{shareController.current.url.url}" />
<h:panelGrid columns="3">
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<h:outputText value="#{nshare.noun}" />
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</p:dataGrid>
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<h:outputText value="#{pshare.prep}" />
</h:panelGroup>
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</h:panelGrid>
</p:dialog>
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If you are using Primefaces versions before 4.0 use dlg.show() instead of PF('dlg').show().
And try appending the dialog in body using attribute appendToBody="true", because if the Facelet is more complex and if you are using Layouts the dialog won't fire ind some browsers only model will appear.
<p:dialog appendToBody="true" >

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Unfortunately I couldn't find a way to update the bean successfully: <p:ajax> inside dataTable throws this exception:
<p:ajax> Unable to attach <p:ajax> to non-ClientBehaviorHolder parent
Using <f:setPropertyActionListener> inside the iterative element fails too because I get:
<f:setPropertyActionListener> Parent is not of type ActionSource
This is my code:
<pm:view id="instrumentsView" >
<pm:content >
<h:form id="instrumentsList" >
<p:dataList var="instrument" value="#{instrumentBean.subscribedInstruments}" >
<h:outputLink value="#newView" >#{instrument.longName}</h:outputLink>
<f:setPropertyActionListener value="#{instrument}" target="#{instrumentBean.selectedInstrument}" />
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</h:form>
</pm:content>
</pm:view>
Clearly, I am using dataList and outputLink because as far as I understand, they are the components optimized for the use in PrimeFaces mobile lists. But I am available to find other options if necessary.
I found out in the showcase (example titled News) the correct way of handling the problem:
<p:dataList var="instrument" value="#{instrumentBean.subscribedInstruments}" >
<p:column >
<p:commandLink value="#{instrument.longName}" action="pm:newView" update=":compId">
<f:setPropertyActionListener value="#{instrument}" target="#{instrumentBean.selectedInstrument}" />
</p:commandLink>
</p:column>
</p:dataList>
There is a topic explaining this in the primefaces documentation.
Selecting Data (page 124)
indexed_primefaces_users_guide_3_5.pdf
http://www.primefaces.org/documentation.html
Here is the content
<h:form id="carForm">
<p:dataGrid var="car" value="#{carBean.cars}" columns="3" rows="12">
<p:panel header="#{car.model}">
<p:commandLink update=":carForm:display" oncomplete="dlg.show()">
<f:setPropertyActionListener value="#{car}"
target="#{carBean.selectedCar}"
<h:outputText value="#{car.model}" />
</p:commandLink>
</p:panel>
</p:dataGrid>
<p:dialog modal="true" widgetVar="dlg">
<h:panelGrid id="display" columns="2">
<f:facet name="header">
<p:graphicImage value="/images/cars/#{car.manufacturer}.jpg" />
</f:facet>
<h:outputText value="Model:" />
<h:outputText value="#{carBean.selectedCar.year}" />
</h:panelGrid>
</p:dialog>
</h:form>

f:setPropertyActionListener not invoked

I am trying to move a p:dialog out of a h:form, because I have read that this is the preferred way (however I'd like to understand the reason, because my p:dialog inside a form works well in my application).
The only difficulty is that the dialog title needs to be updated dynamically. The dialog is shown when a button in a p:dataTable is clicked.
Here is my old xhtml (before the changes), that's working fine:
<p:dataTable var="event" value="#{eventBean.lazyModel}" selection="#{eventBean.selectedEvent}" />
...
<p:column headerText="#{msgs.Persons}">
<p:commandButton value="#{msgs.ViewPersons}" update=":viewPersonsForm" oncomplete="viewPersonsDlg.show()">
<f:setPropertyActionListener value="#{event}" target="#{eventBean.selectedEvent}" />
</p:commandButton>
</p:column>
</p:dataTable>
<h:form id="viewPersonsForm">
<p:dialog modal="true" widgetVar="viewPersonsDlg" dynamic="true" header="#{eventBean.selectedEvent.name}" >
...
</p:dialog>
</h:form>
And here is the new xhtml, with eventBean#setSelectedEvent() that is not invoked.
<p:dataTable var="event" value="#{eventBean.lazyModel}" selection="#{eventBean.selectedEvent}" />
...
<p:column headerText="#{msgs.Persons}">
<p:commandButton value="#{msgs.ViewPersons}" update=":viewPersonsDlgId" oncomplete="jQuery('#viewPersonsDlgId .ui-dialog-title').text('#{eventBean.selectedEvent.name}');viewPersonsDlg.show()">
<f:setPropertyActionListener value="#{event}" target="#{eventBean.selectedEvent}" />
</p:commandButton>
</p:column>
</p:dataTable>
<p:dialog modal="true" id="viewPersonsDlgId" widgetVar="viewPersonsDlg" dynamic="true" >
...
</p:dialog>
So, again, why in the second scenario eventBean#setSelectedEvent() is not invoked? And, if possible, why the first scenario is not optimal?
It is not restricted to use p:dialog inside a h:form since it can work in some cases, but most of the time you will find yourself struggling with some unexpected behaviour with that, here are some explanations :
Why not to place p:dialog inside h:form 1
Why not to place p:dialog inside h:form 2
The problem in your case is that jQuery method in oncomplete is called before the value is set with f:setPropertyActionListener. To avoid this use the same solution as you used in your first case. So :
<p:dataTable var="event" value="#{eventBean.lazyModel}" selection="#{eventBean.selectedEvent}" />
...
<p:column headerText="#{msgs.Persons}">
<p:commandButton value="#{msgs.ViewPersons}" update=":viewPersonsDlgId" oncomplete="viewPersonsDlg.show()">
<f:setPropertyActionListener value="#{event}" target="#{eventBean.selectedEvent}" />
</p:commandButton>
</p:column>
</p:dataTable>
<p:dialog modal="true" id="viewPersonsDlgId" widgetVar="viewPersonsDlg" dynamic="true" header="#{eventBean.selectedEvent.name}" >
...
</p:dialog>
No need to use jQuery here.
I had the same problem (pf 3.5):
<p:tabView id="cashFlowTabContainer" style="width:100%" activeIndex="0"
widgetVar="cashFlowTabContainerVar">
<p:tab title="#{labels['cashflow_incoming']}">
<p:outputPanel id="incomingPanel">
<p:dataTable value="#{cashFlowController.incomingCashFlows}"
var="cashFlow">
<p:column headerText="#{labels.cashflow_actions}">
<p:commandButton value="Edit"
action="# {cashFlowController.editIncoming}" update="#form" oncomplete="editInputVar.show();">
<f:setPropertyActionListener value="#{cashFlow}"
target="#{cashFlowController.selectedIncoming}" />
</p:commandButton>
</p:column>
and this was my dialog:
<p:dialog id="editInput" header="Dynamic Dialog"
widgetVar="editInputVar" resizable="false" draggable="false"
modal="true">
<p:panel>
<h:panelGrid columns="2" cellpadding="5">
...
<h:outputText value="#{labels.cashflow_description}:" />
<h:inputText
value="#{cashFlowController.selectedIncoming.description}" />
So... This way the setter was NEVER called. Then I noticed that if I emptied the dialog the setter was called.
So I solved it by putting a "rendered" statement on the panel:
<p:dialog id="editInput" header="Dynamic Dialog"
widgetVar="editInputVar" resizable="false" draggable="false"
modal="true">
<p:panel **rendered="#{cashFlowController.selectedIncoming != null}"**>
<h:panelGrid columns="2" cellpadding="5">
I guess there's a null pointer that is not logged anywhere... anyway this way it works :)

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