h:commandButton not working within PrimeFaces p:dataTable
- by JamesB
I have a PrimeFaces datatable. For each row in this table, I want to allow the user to update/delete the row entry (a user).
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
xmlns:f="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core"
xmlns:h="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html"
xmlns:p="http://primefaces.prime.com.tr/ui">
<h:head>
<link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="themes/bluesky/skin.css" />
</h:head>
<h:body>
<center>
<h:form>
<p:panel id="viewUsersPanel" header="View Users">
<p:dataTable var="user" value="#{uController.users}"
emptyMessage="No Users Found.">
<p:column style="text-align: center;">
<f:facet name="header">
<h:outputText value="Name" />
</f:facet>
<h:outputText value="#{user.name}" />
</p:column>
<p:column style="text-align: center;">
<f:facet name="header">
<h:outputText value="Postal Address" />
</f:facet>
<h:outputText value="#{user.address}" />
</p:column>
<p:column style="text-align: center;">
<f:facet name="header">
<h:outputText value="Phone Number" />
</f:facet>
<h:outputText value="#{user.phone}" />
</p:column>
<p:column style="text-align: center;">
<f:facet name="header">
<h:outputText value="Email Address" />
</f:facet>
<h:outputText value="#{user.email}" />
</p:column>
<p:column style="text-align: center;">
<f:facet name="header">
<h:outputText value="DOB" />
</f:facet>
<h:outputText value="#{user.dob}">
<f:convertDateTime pattern="dd-MMM-yyyy" />
</h:outputText>
</p:column>
<p:column style="text-align: center;">
<f:facet name="header">
<h:outputText value="No. Memberships" />
</f:facet>
<h:outputText value="#{user.numberOfMemberships}" />
</p:column>
<p:column style="text-align: center;">
<f:facet name="header">
<h:outputText value="Actions" />
</f:facet>
<h:commandButton value="Update" action="#{uController.update}" />
<h:commandButton value="Delete" action="#{uController.delete}" />
</p:column>
</p:dataTable>
<h:panelGrid columns="2" cellpadding="2" id="footerPanelGrid"
border="0">
<h:commandButton action="#{uController.home}" value="Home Page" />
</h:panelGrid>
</p:panel>
</h:form>
</center>
</h:body>
</html>
However, neither of the buttons work. Instead they appear to simply refresh the view page. I have ran the app in debug and neither update or delete method is hit.
I suspect this may be due to using h:commandButton within a p:dataTable. However, I have also tried p:commandButton but to no avail.
For reference, here is a snippet of the UserController class:
@ManagedBean(name="uController")
public class UserController extends AbstractController {
private Collection<User> users;
...
public String update() {
System.out.println("Ready for update");
return "update-user";
}
public String delete() {
System.out.println("Ready for delete");
return "delete-user";
}
...
}
