ValueChangeListener problem - jsf

While calling the ValueChangeListener in JSF based on value change in dropdown, it is calling all the ValueChangeListner that are on that page.
There are two valueChangeListener in DataTable, while changing value in one dropdwon the 2nd one also executing.
<t:column id="avlId" styleClass="coltextcenteralign">
<f:facet name="header">
<h:panelGroup>
<h:outputText value="#{bundle['travelLocalAccommodation.title.availability']}" />
<h:outputText value="*" style="color:red" />
</h:panelGroup>
</f:facet>
<t:selectOneMenu value="#{accomDtls.availability}" immediate="true"
valueChangeListener="#{TravelProcessingBB.localAccommodationBB.setAvailableFlag}" forceid="true" id="avl"
onchange="return availabilityAlert('#{accomDtls.prepopulatedFlag}','avl[#{table_count}]')"
styleClass="dropDownStyle" style="width:50">
<f:selectItem itemValue="Y" itemLabel="Yes" />
<f:selectItem itemValue="N" itemLabel="No" />
</t:selectOneMenu>
</t:column>

The value change alone won't automatically call the valueChangeListener. You need to submit the form as well. A commonly used "hack" is to call form.submit() using JavaScript during the onchange event. This will however submit the entire form. Truly the valueChangeListener will be triggered for all changed fields of the form.
To fix this in JSF 1.x, you need to hassle somewhat with the immediate attribute to skip all other form components from validating and with component binding so that you can properly get/set the other component's value. Long story short, I ever wrote an article about that: populate child menus in JSF 1.2.
In JSF 2.0, this is however easier to achieve with help of <f:ajax> tag. If you're really using JSF 2.0 (your current question doesn't indicate that), then let me know if you need an example.

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JSF action not called OR selectbox value is null

i have another strange JSF problem here... I don´t really know why, but what ever i try to do, i have one out of two problems. Either the action method inside my popupPanel is not (means never) called or it is called, but the value from my selectBox is (always) null. Can´t figure out, what the problem is, but it seems to me, like it´s a XHTML property problem.
Already tried to put the popupPanel outside my h:form (helped me at some other locations...), i also tried to put it outside and put another form into my popup. Beyond that i was trying to change the attachment to parent/form and i changed the execute of the commandButton inside my popup to form/form-id/popuppanel-id and i guess there were some more things i did... but nothing helped.
The Bean is session scoped and i am using Richface 4.0 Final if it does matter at all.
What ever, the XHTML looks like this:
<rich:popupPanel
header="#{label['edit.title']} #{mandateAction.ccService.mandateList[mandateAction.currentIndex].id}"
id="addExternalSystem"
onmaskclick="#{rich:component('addExternalSystem')}.hide()"
domElementAttachment="form" autosized="true" layout="block">
<h:panelGrid columns="2">
<h:outputText value="#{label['login.username']}" />
<h:inputText
value="#{mandateAction.newExternalSystem.username}" />
<h:outputText value="#{label['login.password']}" />
<h:inputSecret
value="#{mandateAction.newExternalSystem.password}" />
<h:outputText value="#{label['mandate.externalSystem']}" />
<h:selectOneMenu
value="#{mandateAction.newExternalSystem.externalSystem}">
<f:selectItems
value="#{creditcardConfigurationService.externalSystems}"
itemLabel="#{system.name}" itemValue="#{system}"
var="system" />
<f:converter binding="#{externalSystemConverter}" />
</h:selectOneMenu>
....
<a4j:commandButton value="#{label['insert.save']}"
action="#{mandateAction.insertNewSystem}"
render="mandate_table" execute="#form"
oncomplete="if (#{facesContext.maximumSeverity==null}) {#{rich:component('addExternalSystem')}.hide();}" />
If your page have any of the required fields kept as empty the submit from the popup panel will not work. In that case include the popup panel inside a form and domElementAttachment="form" , and perform the submit.

Can we create textbox right next to selectonemenu component when we fire selectoneMenu valueChangeListener event

want to create textbox on the fly is it possible?
Select Report to run:
<h:selectOneMenu value="#{reportBean.selectReport}">
<f:selectItems value = "#{reportBean.allReports}" />
<f:ajax listener="#{reportBean.getReqID}" render="reqID"> </f:ajax>
</h:selectOneMenu>
Seems like you want to show/hide the <h:inputText> based on the selected value on your <h:selectOneMenu>. Yes, this can be easily achieved with plain JSF.
Note that if you use set the rendered attribute as false the component won't appear in the component tree, so there will be no way it can't be referenced for any call (not even ajax calls). In order to update it, you should wrap the component inside another component like <h:panelGroup> and render the wrapper. Basic example:
<h:form id="frmRep">
<h:selectOneMenu value="#{reportBean.selectReport}">
<f:selectItems value = "#{reportBean.allReports}" />
<!--
assuming your reportBean.getReqID method will change the value of
reportBean.showReqID attribute to render/not render it and works well
-->
<f:ajax listener="#{reportBean.getReqID}" render="pnlRepName" />
</h:selectOneMenu>
<h:panelGroup id="pnlRepName">
<h:inputText id="reqID" rendered="#{reportBean.showReqID}"
value="#{reportBean.reportName}" />
<h:panelGroup>
</h:form>
For this specific requirement instead, I won't recommend using an ajax call since it has to go to the server to only check if the component should or should not be showed to the user. I would opt for a JavaScript solution to handle this just on client side.

Trying to understand why h:commandLink submits through validation and a4j:commandLink doesn't

First of all, i'm using Jsf 1.2...
I have a problem with submitting some values in a form to validation.
Specifically this code segement:
<h:panelGrid columns="4" id="StatusPanel">
<h:outputText value="#{msg.Phone_number_to_send_SMS_to}" />
<h:inputText id="phoneNumber" value="#{general.smsPhoneNumber}" required="true"
requiredMessage="Please enter a valid phone number." />
<a4j:commandLink value="#{msg.Submit_Button}"
reRender="pinCodeDeliveryMsgText, pinCodeDeliveryMsg, pinCodeDeliveryFailedMsg, pinCodeDeliveryMainPanel, LastPinCodeMsg, SendingSMSMSG"
action="#{general.submit}" />
<h:message for="phoneNumber" fatalClass="mandatoryFieldMissing" errorClass="mandatoryFieldMissing" tooltip="true" />
</h:panelGrid>
Which looks like this in the html page:
Whenever I press the submit link, the page doesn't really go through validation, it seems to go with the last successull values instead. The result being that, if the phone number field is left empty, it does nothing and doesn't even render the <h:message> tag.
Actually, I have a workaround fix that looks like this:
<h:commandLink value="#{msg.Submit_Button}">
<a4j:support event="onclick" reRender="pinCodeDeliveryMsgText, pinCodeDeliveryMsg, pinCodeDeliveryFailedMsg, pinCodeDeliveryMainPanel, LastPinCodeMsg, SendingSMSMSG"
action="#{general.submit}"/>
</h:commandLink>
But i'm really curious to know what's the difference between a4j:commandLink and h:commandLink that makes one woirk and the other not.
TnX
Have you tried to set the process attribute of a4j:commandLink to the id of the inputText? Looks like you are just triggering rerendering of some components, so no model update is performed at all.

Form value not passed to Seam bean after a4j reRender

I'm making a webapp in Seam but ran into a problem I can't seem to fix.
I have a JSF form where the customer can select a reservation type through a combobox. Based on the selected value, other form components gets rendered.
For example: the customer selects Hours as reservation type, a panelGroup gets rendered where the customer can select a start- and an end hour. But if the customer would select 'part of the day' as reservation type, a selectOneMenu gets rendered where the customer can select a part of the day (morning, afternoon, evening)
The rerendering well but the values of the components with a rendered conditional won't get passed to the bean. They stay null values.
This is the code i'm talking about:
<s:div id="spot"
rendered="#{selectedProduct.productType.name eq 'Flex Spot'}">
<h:panelGrid columns="2">
<h:outputText value="Reservation Type" />
<h:selectOneMenu value="#{selectedPeriodPart}">
<s:selectItems
value="#{productManager.getAvailableDayPartsSpot()}"
var="daypart"
label="#{daypart.label}"></s:selectItems>
<s:convertEnum />
<a4j:support ajaxSingle="true"
event="onchange"
action="#"
reRender="spot">
</a4j:support>
</h:selectOneMenu>
<h:outputText id="date_spot" value="Date" />
<a4j:outputPanel id="calendar_spot" layout="block">
<rich:calendar value="#{reservation.reservationPeriod.startDate}"
locale="en" cellWidth="24px"
cellHeight="22px"
style="width:200px" />
</a4j:outputPanel>
<h:outputText rendered="#{selectedPeriodPart eq 'DAY_PART'}"
value="Daypart" />
<h:selectOneMenu value="#{selectedDaypart}"
rendered="#{selectedPeriodPart eq 'DAY_PART'}">
<f:selectItem id="si_morning" itemLabel="Morning (6:00 - 12:00)"
itemValue="morning" />
<f:selectItem id="si_afternoon"
itemLabel="Afternoon (12:00 - 18:00)" itemValue="afternoon" />
<f:selectItem id="si_evening" itemLabel="Evening (18:00 - 00:00)"
itemValue="evening" />
</h:selectOneMenu>
<h:outputText rendered="#{selectedPeriodPart eq 'HOURS'}"
value="Hours" />
<h:panelGroup id="hours_spot"
rendered="#{selectedPeriodPart eq 'HOURS'}">
<ui:include src="/includes/reservation/select_hours.xhtml" />
</h:panelGroup>
</h:panelGrid>
</s:div>
Note: The calendar value do get passed back to the bean but the value of this piece of code doesn't (it does if you remove the rendered conditional):
selectOneMenu value="#{selectedDaypart}" rendered="#{selectedPeriodPart eq 'DAY_PART'}"
You need to ensure that the conditionals responsible for the outcome of the rendered attribute are also the same in the subsequent request of the form submit. Because when a component isn't rendered, JSF won't apply the request values them.
In a nutshell, the property behind #{selectedPeriodPart} needs to be the same in the subsequent request. There are several solutions:
Put bean in session scope. Easiest solution, but bad for server memory and client experience (updates would be reflected in multiple tabs/windows in same session).
Pass it through using <h:inputHidden>. Not sure though how this fits in the Ajax/Richfaces picture. Better use <a4j:keepAlive> here.
Use a conversation scope. Seam offers facilities for this.
I fixed it -.- Nothing was wrong with the code I posted.
Because I wasn't able to solve this issue I continued on an other page in the same conversation. I noticed some more strange behaviour: outjection of a variable didn't work etc.
I figured the mistake was in some other part of the code which, after corrected, fixed the whole problem.
Thx for answering guys!

Sending JSF parameters within Richfaces a4j:repeat

I'm attempting to put a few drop down menus inside of an a4j:repeat. The values for the second drop down are dependent on the value selected in the first. Below is the code I am attempting to use, but it passes a blank parameter:
<a4j:repeat id="localRepeat" var="local" value="#{InstanceController.instance.locations}" rowKeyVar="row">
<h:panelGrid columns="2">
<h:outputLabel value="Theater:" />
<h:selectOneMenu id="theater" converter="#{TheaterConverter}" value="#{local.theater}">
<f:selectItems id="theaters" value="#{InstanceController.allTheaters}" />
<a4j:support event="onchange" action="#{InstanceController.getAllCountriesInTheater}" reRender="country" >
<f:param name="theater" value="#{local.theater.id}"/>
</a4j:support>
</h:selectOneMenu>
<h:outputLabel value="Country:" />
<h:selectOneMenu immediate="true" id="country" converter="#{CountryConverter}" value="#{local.country}">
<f:selectItems value="#{InstanceController.allCountriesInTheater}" />
<a4j:support event="onchange" reRender="state" />
</h:selectOneMenu>
</h:panelGrid>
<rich:spacer height="10px" />
</a4j:repeat>
If I change the f:param to send "1" instead of "#{local.theater.id}" it works as expected.
Is there a way to get the selected value of the first drop down and send it as a parameter?
This reason this doesn't work is that when the f:param tag is rendered, the current value of local.theater.id is already assigned to the parameter. So the theater param will contain the id of the theater that was selected when the page was rendered - probably null because no theater has been selected yet.
What you are trying to do is far more easy:
Just remove the f:param and use the property directly. When the a4j:support tag triggers because the selectbox value was changed, jsf will validate your form tags and assign the appropriate model values. So, when the getAllCountriesInTheater action gets executed, the local.theater property will already contain the selected theater.
Depending on how your backing beans are designed, you will probably need a parameter to identify the location for which the selectbox was changed, so the getAllCountriesInTheater action will know in which of the locations to look for the selected theater.

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