Why does @PostConstruct callback fire every time even though bean is @ViewScoped? JSF
- by Nitesh Panchal
Hello,
I am using datatable on page and using binding attribute to bind it to my backing bean. This is my code :-
<?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:p="http://primefaces.prime.com.tr/ui">
<h:head>
<title>Facelet Title</title>
</h:head>
<h:body>
<h:form prependId="false">
<h:dataTable var="item" value="#{testBean.stringCollection}" binding="#{testBean.dataTable}">
<h:column>
<h:outputText value="#{item}"/>
</h:column>
<h:column>
<h:commandButton value="Click" actionListener="#{testBean.action}"/>
</h:column>
</h:dataTable>
</h:form>
</h:body>
</html>
This is my bean :-
package managedBeans;
import java.io.Serializable;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;
import javax.annotation.PostConstruct;
import javax.faces.bean.ManagedBean;
import javax.faces.bean.ViewScoped;
import javax.faces.component.html.HtmlDataTable;
@ManagedBean(name="testBean")
@ViewScoped
public class testBean implements Serializable {
private List<String> stringCollection;
public List<String> getStringCollection() {
return stringCollection;
}
public void setStringCollection(List<String> stringCollection) {
this.stringCollection = stringCollection;
}
private HtmlDataTable dataTable;
public HtmlDataTable getDataTable() {
return dataTable;
}
public void setDataTable(HtmlDataTable dataTable) {
this.dataTable = dataTable;
}
@PostConstruct
public void init(){
System.out.println("Post Construct fired!!");
stringCollection = new ArrayList<String>();
stringCollection.add("a");
stringCollection.add("b");
stringCollection.add("c");
}
public void action(){
System.out.println("Clicked!!");
}
}
Please tell me why is the @PostConstruct firing each and every time i click on button? It should fire only once as long as i am on same page beacause my bean is @ViewScoped. Further, if i remove the binding attribute then everything works fine and @PostConstruct callback fires only once. Then why every time when i use binding attribute? I need binding attribute and want to perform initialisation tasks like fetching data from webservice, etc only once. What should i do? Where should i write my initialisation task?
