From a logical standpoint you cannot avoid to send the entire abslute
(html) id
because otherwise on the server side you cannot
identify the component properly.
If you take the relative id, a proper identification within the
component tree is impossible.
So the id sent down has to be the absolute id otherwise we do not have a
chance of identifying the affected components properly!
Werner
Ganesh schrieb:
Hi everybody who is involved with MyFaces 2.0,
have you seen this?
From this:
<h:selectOneMenu id="menu"
value="#{place.zoomIndex}"
valueChangeListener="#{place.zoomChanged}"
style="font-size:13px;font-family:Palatino">
<f:selectItems value="#{places.zoomLevelItems}"/>
*<f:ajax execute="@this" render="image"/>
*
</h:selectOneMenu>
,nested inside a ui:repeat and a composition, Mojarra creates this AJAX
request:
form form
j_id-939329235_16ef8569:0:j_id-939329235_16ef8513:j_id1608935764_5fe6690f:menu
3
javax.faces.ViewState -1363564553004911965:-1863826268811277742
javax.faces.behavior.event valueChange
javax.faces.partial.ajax true
javax.faces.partial.event change
javax.faces.partial.execute
j_id-939329235_16ef8569:0:j_id-939329235_16ef8513:j_id1608935764_5fe6690f:menu
javax.faces.partial.render
j_id-939329235_16ef8569:0:j_id-939329235_16ef8513:j_id1608935764_5fe6690f:image
javax.faces.source
j_id-939329235_16ef8569:0:j_id-939329235_16ef8513:j_id1608935764_5fe6690f:menu
In the JSR-314 spec it says in table 14-1:
>>render - A space delimited list of client identifiers or one of the
keywords (Section 14.2.2 “Keywords”). These reference the components
that will be processed during the “render” phase of the request
processing lifecycle.<<
now, 'image' is definitely not a client identifier, but a component
identifier. And there is more! Andy Schwarz comments on this:
>>When specifying execute/render ids for <f:ajax>, the id resolution
behavior is similar to findComponent(). So, if you specify a relative
id, eg. "image", this should be resolved relative to the nearest naming
container. In your case, that would be the composite component. In order
to specify an absolute id, you would prefix the id with ":", eg.
":foo:mycompositecomp:image".<<
Both kinds of behaviour - resolving ids either relative to the nearest
naming container or prepending them with a ":" to mark them absolute -
cannot be found in the spec.
So, what do we do? Shall we follow Mojarras paths even if not covered by
the specs words? Or do purposely break application portability to adhere
to the specs?
Please comment on this.
Best regards,
Ganesh
P.S.: For the curious ones: The reason why Davids code doesn't work
because there is some bug in the decode processing of ui:repeat that
Ryan is currently fixing ...
-------- Original-Nachricht --------
Betreff: Re: f:ajax not working inside composite components?
Datum: Tue, 12 May 2009 14:39:58 -0700
Von: Ryan Lubke <ryan.lu...@sun.com>
Antwort an: JSR 314 Open Mailing list <jsr-314-o...@jcp.org>
An: jsr-314-o...@jcp.org
Referenzen:
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On 5/12/09 2:17 PM, David Geary wrote:
2009/5/12 Andy Schwartz <andy.schwa...@oracle.com
<mailto:andy.schwa...@oracle.com>>
Hi David -
Hi Andy,
Thanks for responding.
David Geary wrote On 5/12/2009 12:36 PM ET:
<h:selectOneMenu id="menu"
value="#{place.zoomIndex}"
valueChangeListener="#{place.zoomChanged}"
style="font-size:13px;font-family:Palatino">
<f:selectItems value="#{places.zoomLevelItems}"/>
*<f:ajax execute="@this" render="image"/>
*
</h:selectOneMenu>
This looks good to me.
Yup. I thought that perhaps I was failing validation for some reason,
so I added immediate="true" to the f:ajax tag, but it didn't fix the
problem. :(
With FireBug, I've verified that a POST request is indeed executed
when I change the zoom level, and it appears that everything is in
order:
form form
j_id-939329235_16ef8569:0:j_id-939329235_16ef8513:j_id1608935764_5fe6690f:menu
3
javax.faces.ViewState -1363564553004911965:-1863826268811277742
javax.faces.behavior.event valueChange
javax.faces.partial.ajax true
javax.faces.partial.event change
javax.faces.partial.execute
j_id-939329235_16ef8569:0:j_id-939329235_16ef8513:j_id1608935764_5fe6690f:menu
javax.faces.partial.render
j_id-939329235_16ef8569:0:j_id-939329235_16ef8513:j_id1608935764_5fe6690f:image
javax.faces.source
j_id-939329235_16ef8569:0:j_id-939329235_16ef8513:j_id1608935764_5fe6690f:menu
And the request payload looks right - seems like all of the
necessary information is present. (Though, man, those
auto-generated client ids sure are huge!)
Yes, it looks right to me too.
I get a response back that looks like this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<partial-response><changes><update
id="javax.faces.ViewState"><![CDATA[1747337848471748955:2683565346534242854
]]></update></changes></partial-response>
However, with f:ajax, my value change listener is never invoked on
the server, so the menu doesn't update, even though I've specified
that the menu should go through the execute phase of the lifecycle.
Does anyone know why my value change listener is not invoked? Am I
doing something wrong, or is this a bug?
Seems like the execute portion of the lifecycle is not being
invoked properly. I don't see anything wrong in your code - so I
suspect there is a bug here.
I put a phase listener in the app to monitor the lifecycle, and all
six phases of the lifecycle are invoked, in the correct order when the
ajax request is made, but my value change listener is still not
invoked. It's interesting to note that when I remove the f:ajax tag,
and add an onchange="submit()" attribute to the menu, my value change
listener does get invoked, so it definitely seems like a bug to me. I
can't think of any good reason for the difference in behavior between
the Ajax and non-Ajax versions.
It seems to me that the lifecycle is executing properly, but it's not
processing my menu, even though I've got execute="@this", and that
information is apparently correctly passed to the server.
Is anyone from the RI team listening? Ryan? I can JAR up the app, and
send it to interested parties. I'd really like to get this fixed so I
can nail down this demo for JavaOne. It's a pretty cool demo, but it
looses much of its appeal when it doesn't work.
Feel free to send it my way.
Help!!
btw, here are a couple of interesting datapoints:
1. I have breakpoints in jsf.ajax.request and jsf.ajax.response. The
request breakpoint is hit, but the response is not. The return status
for the response is 200, so there are apparently no errors.
2. I thought, from Jim Driscoll's blog about f:ajax, that we had to
specify client ids for execute and render, so I originally had this:
<f:ajax execute="@this" render="#{cc.clientId}:image"/>
But when I do that, I get this error...
<f:ajax> contains an unknown id
'j_id-939329235_16ef8569:0:j_id-939329235_16ef8513:j_id1608935764_5fe6690f:image'
...when I load the page, even though that is the correct client id
(as evidenced from the request data above). Evidently, we're supposed
to use the component id and not the client id?
When specifying execute/render ids for <f:ajax>, the id resolution
behavior is similar to findComponent(). So, if you specify a
relative id, eg. "image", this should be resolved relative to the
nearest naming container. In your case, that would be the
composite component. In order to specify an absolute id, you would
prefix the id with ":", eg. ":foo:mycompositecomp:image".
Ah, okay, I missed that in the docs. Thanks for the explanation.
david