JSF2 - Why does render response not rerender component setting?
- by fekete-kamosh
From the tutorial: "If the request is a postback and errors were encountered during the apply request values phase, process validations phase, or update model values phase, the original page is rendered during Render response phase" (http://java.sun.com/javaee/5/docs/tutorial/doc/bnaqq.html)
Does it mean that if view is restored in "Restore View" phase and then any apply request/validation/update model phase fails and skips to "Render response" that Render response only passes restored view without any changes to client?
Managed Bean:
package cz.test;
import javax.faces.bean.ManagedBean;
import javax.faces.bean.RequestScoped;
@ManagedBean
@RequestScoped
public class TesterBean {
// Simple DataStore (in real world EJB)
private static String storedSomeValue = null;
private String someValue;
public TesterBean() {
}
public String storeValue() {
storedSomeValue = someValue;
return "index";
}
public String eraseValue() {
storedSomeValue = null;
return "index";
}
public String getSomeValue() {
someValue = storedSomeValue;
return someValue;
}
public void setSomeValue(String someValue) {
this.someValue = someValue;
}
}
Composite component:
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='ISO-8859-1' ?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
xmlns:h="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html"
xmlns:f="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core"
xmlns:composite="http://java.sun.com/jsf/composite"
xmlns:c="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core">
<!-- INTERFACE -->
<composite:interface>
<composite:attribute name="currentBehaviour" type="java.lang.String" required="true"/>
<composite:attribute name="fieldValue" required="true"/>
</composite:interface>
<!-- IMPLEMENTATION -->
<composite:implementation>
<h:panelGrid columns="3">
<c:choose>
<c:when test="#{cc.attrs.currentBehaviour == 'READONLY'}" >
<h:outputText id="fieldValue" value="#{cc.attrs.fieldValue}">
</h:outputText>
</c:when>
<c:when test="#{cc.attrs.currentBehaviour == 'MANDATORY'}" >
<h:inputText id="fieldValue" value="#{cc.attrs.fieldValue}" required="true">
<f:attribute name="requiredMessage" value="Field is mandatory"/>
<c:if test="#{empty cc.attrs.fieldValue}">
<f:attribute name="style" value="background-color: yellow;"/>
</c:if>
</h:inputText> *
</c:when>
<c:when test="#{cc.attrs.currentBehaviour == 'OPTIONAL'}" >
<h:inputText id="fieldValue" value="#{cc.attrs.fieldValue}">
</h:inputText>
</c:when>
</c:choose>
<h:message for="fieldValue" style="color:red;" />
</h:panelGrid>
</composite:implementation>
Page:
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8' ?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
xmlns:h="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html"
xmlns:ez="http://java.sun.com/jsf/composite/components">
<h:head>
<title>Testing page</title>
</h:head>
<h:body>
<h:form>
<h:outputText value="Some value:"/>
<ez:field-component currentBehaviour="MANDATORY" fieldValue="#{testerBean.someValue}"/>
<h:commandButton value="Store" action="#{testerBean.storeValue}"/>
<h:commandButton value="Erase" action="#{testerBean.eraseValue}" immediate="true"/>
</h:form>
<br/><br/>
<b>Why is field's background color not set to yellow?</b>
<ol>
<li>NOTICE: Field has yellow background color (mandatory field with no value)</li>
<li>Fill in any value (eg. "Hello") and press Store</li>
<li>NOTICE: Yellow background disappeared (as mandatory field has value)</li>
<li>Clear text in the field and press Store</li>
<li><b>QUESTION: Why is field's background color not set to yellow?</b></li>
<li>Press Erase</li>
<li>NOTICE: Field has yellow background color (mandatory field with no value)</li>
</ol>
</h:body>
