After a little debugging, I discovered that the DefaultFormManager instantiates a SimpleComponentSelector directly but does not contextualize it. So, the SimpleComponentSelector cannot contextualize the widget builders that it creates in turn.
OK, to make it short, I locally did a quick fix (against 2.1.8-dev):
Index: src/blocks/forms/java/org/apache/cocoon/forms/DefaultFormManager.java
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--- src/blocks/forms/java/org/apache/cocoon/forms/DefaultFormManager.java (revision 170351)
+++ src/blocks/forms/java/org/apache/cocoon/forms/DefaultFormManager.java (working copy)
@@ -104,6 +104,7 @@
manager.release(service);
}
});
+ widgetDefinitionBuilderSelector.contextualize(avalonContext);
widgetDefinitionBuilderSelector.configure(configuration.getChild("widgets")); }
I'm not sure this is the right thing to do. Would someone who is more knowledgeable of CForms internals please review this, so that I can apply it?
Thanks a lot,
Ugo