I have a drill down menu with top level categegories which contain a variable number of options, and I am using a conversation scoped stateful session bean to manage the menu's state. Because opening any of the top level categories may begin the conversation each corresponds to a toggleCategoryName() method annotated with @Begin(join=true). The problem is if a user begins to interact with the menu and updates it as so:
| Category 1 | -Option | -Option | Category 2 | Category 3 | -Option | -Option | In other words, two categories are open and one is closed. Now if the user leaves to get a cup of coffee and comes back to an expired conversation, then clicks Category 2 to toggle it open they will end up with: | Category 1 | Category 2 | -Option | -Option | Category 3 | This is a problem. What they would expect is to have all three categories open and what they get is a brand new conversation where only the second category has been toggled open. To make matters worse I don't see a way to catch this situation so that I can display some message indicating a conversation timeout occured. In this situation I can't use @Conversational(ifNotBegunOutcome="timeout") because the toggle methods all might be the first action called and therefore must be able to begin a new conversation. I can see some possible hacks to this but what I'd really like is the ability to detect if the action was requested along with a non-valid conversation id. Maybe something along the lines of @Conversational(ifInvalidConverationRequestedOutcome="timeout"). Ok, that's maybe a bit verbose, but you get the picture. Even better would be a way to define an interceptor that could check if an invalid/expired conversation was requested and act appropriately (perhaps setting a message in the facesContext and returning to the last view). Is there a way to do this that I'm missing? I guess the real trick would be picking out the requested conversation id from within the action method, but I've looked the API doc over and I'm coming up short. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3941349#3941349 Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&p=3941349 ------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ JBoss-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jboss-user
