Can you please post either of these stack traces?
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Laurie Harper [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Sent: Thursday, January 5, 2006 11:57 PM
>To: users@myfaces.apache.org
>Subject: Managing List properties: MyFaces vs. RI
>
>I seem to have stumbled into a mini-constellation of inter-related and
>conflicting bugs between MyFaces (1.1.1) and the RI (1.1_01) around
>configuring managed List properties. Perhaps someone can help me figure
>out what the correct behaviour(s) should be so I can identify which are
>bugs in each implementation :-)
>
>So, given a managed bean with the following declaration:
>
> <managed-property>
> <property-name>listInstance</property-name>
> <!--<property-name>instance</property-name>-->
> <list-entries>
> <value-class>...</value-class>
> <value>#{bean1}</value>
> <value>#{bean2}</value>
> <value>#{bean3}</value>
> </list-entries>
> </managed-property>
>
>where the bean has the following accessors/setters defined:
>
> public Object getInstance() { ... }
> public void setInstance(Object instance) { ... }
> public void setListInstance(List instance) {
> setInstance(instance);
> }
>
>I have to change the managed property name according to which impl. I
>deploy: with MyFaces, I have to set the 'instance' property. If I try
>and set 'listInstance' it behaves as though the setListInstance method
>weren't defined.
>
>With the RI, on the other hand, I have to set 'listInstance'. It throws
>an exception if I try to set 'instance'. (I'm assuming that's why the
>setListInstance setter alias was added in the first place).
>
>MyFaces has the additional behaviour that, after throwing the exception,
>it appears to instantiate and configure this bean a bunch more times,
>but without attempting to set the 'listInstance' property again -- as if
>it's marking the property invalid and ignoring it on subsequent requests
>for the bean? I'm really confused about that. The bean has scope 'none'
>but is only referenced by one other bean, as an injected dependency, and
>that bean has session scope.
>
>So, what is the correct method signature for a setter for a managed
>property that takes a List, and why do the two impls behave so
>differently? Which one is correct? (I'm fully willing to believe I'm
>doing something invalid, I just can't find a combination that works in
>both MyFaces and the RI).
>
>L.
>
>
