Issue created https://issues.apache.org/struts/browse/SHALE-307
JB -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Craig McClanahan Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2006 12:56 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: ViewController.prerender() On 10/12/06, Baker,Jonathan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I currently have a page with a list of items on it. For each line, > there is a link to select one of the items. When an item is selected, > the action method bound to that link fetches the item from a database > and retruns an outcome that has a navigation rule to navigate to a > item detail page. Based on some values in that item, we would like to > display a message to the user. I initally added those methods in the > prerender method of the view controller of the item detail page. It > looks though that prerender in the case described above is not being > called on the view controller of the detail page because at the time > of beforeRenderResponse phase the ViewController for the new page has > not been added to the request scope map. > > The ViewController doesn't actually get added to the request map until > the first reference to it is found when parsing the jsp page > components which occurs sometime during the RenderResponse jsf phase. > > I must be doing something wrong here, or else the prerender plug point > is essentially useless. It will get called anytime I take an action > that stays on the current page, but when navigating from one page to > another, it will never get called. > > I am using Spring 2.0 for all of my dependency injection, not faces, > so that may also have something to do with it. No, I think your initial analysis sounds spot on ... it's important that the navigated-to view controller have been loaded (and therefore added to the request attributes) before the Render Response phase. And I can see how it is easy for this to not happen; hence, the framework needs to make sure it happens. Could you please file a bug in our issue tracking system ( http://issues.apache.org/struts) for this? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks > > > > JB Craig
