restrictions in JSF viewScope - jsf

Please have a look at the code below. The function generateCoupon is never invoked.
processCouponGeneration and userPageBacking are in viewScope, but headerBacking is in requestScope. tried changing primefaces p:commandButton to h:commandButton, but it does not work.
Using c:set if I copy the headerBacking.currentUser to a viewScoped variable; use this variable instead of headerBacking.currentUser, the function generateCoupon is fired. So, wanted to confirm if this is an expected behavior. These are the problems troubling me a lot in JSF and I do not know if that can be debugged.
<p:commandButton value="Correct"
action="#{processCouponGeneration.generateCoupon}">
<f:setPropertyActionListener
target="#{processCouponGeneration.bpd}"
value="#{userPageBacking.selectedPromoToDisplay.wupdBrandpromo}" />
<f:setPropertyActionListener
target="#{processCouponGeneration.bpdd}"
value="#{bpddVar}" />
<f:setPropertyActionListener
target="#{processCouponGeneration.promoter}"
value="#{userPageBacking.user}" />
<f:setPropertyActionListener
target="#{processCouponGeneration.buyer}"
value="#{headerBacking.currentUser}" />
</p:commandButton>

It should work. Make sure you have all the getters and setters in all of you managed beans.

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Why we use setPropertyActionListener in JSF?

I am working with JSF and Primefaces. I used setPropertyActionListener from a JSF demo example. It is working, but I don't understand the specific purpose of it.
<p:commandButton value="Search" ajax="false"
action="#{scmAirLiftApprovalRequestManager.search}">
<f:setPropertyActionListener value="true"
target="#{scmAirLiftApprovalRequestManager.isSearching}" />
</p:commandButton>
Can anyone explain in simple what actually it doing?
<f:setPropertyActionListener> sets directly a property in the managed bean.
In the provided snippet of yours, the #{scmAirLiftApprovalRequestManager.isSearching} property will be set to true when the <p:commandButton>'s action is invoked.
More info:
JSF's setPropertyActionListener attribute
It is used to set a value directly into the property of your backing bean before calling the action.
So, here only after setting the value true to scmAirLiftApprovalRequestManager.isSearching , a method scmAirLiftApprovalRequestManager.search is called.

Reset inputText after Button Click with JSF

Is it possible to reset the value of an inputText after clicking on the commandButton in JSF? The inputText UIElement provides the method ResetValue so I tried something like this:
<h:inputText id="measurementadd" binding="#{inputTextMeasurement}">
<f:validateRegex pattern="[a-zA-Z ]*"/>
<f:ajax event="keyup" render="measurementaddmessage submit" execute="#this"/>
<h:inputText>
<p:commandButton id="submit" action="#{Bean.addMeasurement(inputTextMeasurement.value)}"
value="submit" update="dataTable measurementadd measurementaddmessage"
disabled="#{empty inputTextMeasurement.value or facesContext.validationFailed }" >
<f:ajax event="mouseup" execute="#{inputTextMeasurement.resetValue()}" />
</p:commandButton>
<h:messages for="measurementadd" id="measurementaddmessage"/>
But after clicking the Button the inputTextMeasurement doesn't reset it's value.
Does someone know a good workaround for this?
I'm searching for a solution without JS and JAVA, so a realization in JSF would be very cool.
Your mistake is here in the execute attribute:
<f:ajax event="mouseup" execute="#{inputTextMeasurement.resetValue()}" />
The execute attribute should represent a space separated collection of client IDs to include in the process/decode of the ajax request. However, you specified a listener method there.
You need the listener attribute instead:
<f:ajax listener="#{inputTextMeasurement.resetValue()}" />
(and I omitted event as it defaults here to click which is already the right one)
Interesting detail is that the other <f:ajax> in the same piece of code used the exeucte attribute the right way.
Unrelated to the concrete problem, have you looked at <p:resetInput>? This saves an ajax listener method in the bean. Replace the whole <f:ajax> with
<p:resetInput target="measurementadd" />
Why dont we just use
<input type="Reset"/>
This one is works fine for me! ???
I have solved my problem as below
<p:commandButton id="submit" action="#{Bean.addMeasurement(inputTextMeasurement)}">
Sending back bean UIInput component. Get and Reset value in back bean.
public void addMeasurement(UIInput
String msr = (String) inputTextMeasurement.getValue()
inputTextMeasurement.resetValue();
}

f:setPropertyActionListener doesn't set the value however action is triggered

I need to set a boolean field whenever p:fieldset is toggled. I tried out following code but the field is never set by f:setPropertyActionListener although p:ajax listener is invoked on toggle. I tried out following code.
<p:fieldset legend="(Optional) Link.." toggleable="true">
<p:ajax event="toggle" listener="..">
<f:setPropertyActionListener target="#{viewScope.rendrUsrProjctsList}" value="#{true}"/>
</p:ajax>
</p:fieldset>
However when I tried modifying the code as below then field is successfully set:
<p:fieldset legend="(Optional) Link.." toggleable="true">
<p:ajax event="toggle" listener="#{view.viewMap.put('rendrUsrProjctsList', true)}" />
<p:ajax event="toggle" listener=".."/>
</p:ajax>
</p:fieldset>
I want to ask:
Why 1st way doesn't work ?
Is it bad attaching multiple p:ajax to
single parent as done in 2nd way ?
The <f:setPropertyActionListener> works as being an ActionListener implementation only on components implementing ActionSource interface, such as UICommand, i.e. <h:commandXxx>, <p:commandXxx>, etc. The <p:ajax> does not implement this interface and therefore the <f:setPropertyActionListener> is basically completely ignored.
As to your workaround, you could do so although I'd rather just use a concrete view scoped bean or wrap it in a composite with a backing component.

Pass parameter to f:ajax inside c:foreach loop

I am trying to pass a parameter to an ajax event, this is an example of what I mean:
<h:panelGrid id="pictures" columns="3">
<c:forEach items="#{createProduct.pictures}" var="picture">
<h:graphicImage value="#{picture.source}" />
<h:inputText value="#{picture.alt}" />
<p:commandButton value="Remove">
<f:ajax execute="#form"
listener="#{createProduct.removePicture(picture)}"
render="#form" />
</p:commandButton>
</c:forEach>
</h:panelGrid>
I know this code won't work because you cannot pass a parameter through the ajax listener. Though this is merely an example of what I am trying to accomplish. I have tried using <f:param id="picture" value="#{picture}" /> allong with the ajax tag, though this results in a duplicate component ID form:picture since it is in a loop.
I need this parameter inside the method in order to determine which picture to remove.
How can I solve this with ajax?
I am using a #ViewScoped CDI-bean.
First, I suggest replacing c:forEach with ui:repeat tag. Second, as you are using Primefaces, you should use all its strength. So, commandButton can be more easily written:
<p:commandButton value="Remove" process="#form" update="#form" action="#{createProduct.removePicture(picture)}"/>
and that's it. Don't complicate.
By the way, primefaces commandButton is sends AJAX request by default, you don't need (and you must not use) f:ajax tag.

<h:commandLink> not working inside a <h:dataTable>

I will try to explain myself:
I'm working on a JSF project using java, JSF 2.0 and RichFaces 4.2.1.
When I access my jsf it just loads a search filter and a commandLink. The commandLink will launch a method in my backingBean to load data that it will be displayed in a dataTable.
<h:commandLink id="btnRecords">
<f:ajax render="myCompAjax" event="click" listener="#{myBean.loadRecords}" />
<h:graphicImage value="img/ico_new.gif" alt="#{bundle['button.search']}" />
</h:commandLink>
The datatable is not visible at first, but once you click on the commandLink a flag in the backingBean will change and the table displays with data I just loaded.
<a4j:outputPanel ajaxRendered="true" id="myCompAjax">
<h:dataTable id="recordsTable" value="#{myBean.records}"
var="item" rendered="#{myBean.flagShowTable}">
<h:column headerClass="thPijama" >
<f:facet name="header">
<table><tr class="thPijama"><td></td></tr></table>
</f:facet>
<h:commandLink action="#{myBean.goNextPage}">
<h:outputText value="Go Next Page" />
<h:inputHidden value="#{item}" />
</h:commandLink>
</h:column>
</h:dataTable>
</a4j:outputPanel>
Problem is the commandLink action inside of the dataTable isn't working at all. I just want to navigate to another jsf. In fact, what it does is hiding the dataTable and leaving the filter unchanged. The action method remains unreachable.
Of course, it works if I set the same commandLink outside the dataTable.
I cannot use Session Scope Beans because the people I work for don't approve it.
Can anyone help me?
Thanks for the hint.
I cannot use Session Scope Beans because the people I work for don't approve it.
Are you implying that placing the bean in the session scope instead of the request scope actually solved the problem? If so, then just put the bean in the view scope.
#ManagedBean
#ViewScoped
public class MyBean implements Serializable {
// ...
}
This way the bean will live as long as you're interacting with the same view by ajax requests. The bean is not been shared in other browser tabs/windows in the same session (which is among the architects indeed the major reason to forbid its use in case of simple views).
See also:
How to choose the right bean scope?
commandButton/commandLink/ajax action/listener method not invoked or input value not updated - point 4 applies to you

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