Repeat partial requests are treated as postback, because of absent/removed
client-side ViewState
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Key: TRINIDAD-1685
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TRINIDAD-1685
Project: MyFaces Trinidad
Issue Type: New Feature
Components: Components
Affects Versions: 2.0.0.1-core
Environment: Windows 7
Reporter: Pavitra Subramaniam
I noticed a change in JSF 2 related to sending the ViewState to the client and
wanted to log this issue with my findings and propose possible solutions.
1. In JSF 1.2, the viewstate (either the client token or the full client-side
state) was always sent as part of every request and this was happening in 2
places:
- In FormRenderer, as part of the _renderPostscriptElement method, a <span>
element with the postscript Id is generated and inside it a placeholder
('marker') for the JSF state is set.
- Later at the end of renderView in ViewHandler, 'writeState()' gets called
which retrieves the real state, replaces the 'marker' with this value. So that
we get something like (for the token case),
<fragment>
<![CDATA[<span id="tr_j_id_jsp_323026082_2_Postscript">
<input type="hidden" name="javax.faces.ViewState" value="!1bja7345nw">
<input type="hidden" name="source"></span>]]>
</fragment>
2. In JSF 2.0, this appears to have changed. One, we have a new
'MultiViewHandler.java', whose writeState() method does not write any state if
it's an 'ajax' request. Secondly, since we generate the postscript element for
all requests (including PPR) in the FormRenderer, we end up sending something
like this to the client,
<update>
<![CDATA[<span id="tr_j_id_jsp_323026082_2_Postscript">
<input type="hidden" name="source"></span>]]>
</update>
The above response (using the jsf.ajax.response handler), wipes out the
ViewState stored in the client. So subsequent PPR requests end up not being
treated as postbacks.
REMARKS:
a. It's not clear to me if it's ok for the ViewState (token or full) to not get
sent for partial requests on the same view.
b. If a. is true, then do we need to revisit how we send ViewState (as part of
the FormRenderer 'postscript' element)?
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