Re: Understanding phases and UIInput inside of UIData

[Andrew Robinson]

Well I found a hack workaround - add an error severity message to the faces context. This stops the data table from losing its data - I'm just not sure why.

-Andrew

On 6/30/06, Andrew Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

I had thought I had my problem of phases with UIData figured out, but I am still having issues.
I have a data table with input controls in it (inputText for example). Sometimes I lose data in these controls. Here are the use cases and the associated issue:

1. If action immediate set to true, I lose all my data in the data tables
2. If immediate is false my action never fires if a validation error occurs (this is not what I want in this use case, I want my action to ALWAYS fire)
3. If I change the phase ID of the action to the validations phase, and there are validation errors, everything works
4. If I chagne the phase ID of the action to the validations phase and there are no validation errors, I lose my data in the table

What I am trying to figure out is the difference between #3 and #4.

So, I have changed my action to execute during the processing of validations. This allows me to run my code regardless of validation errors. The side effect is if there are no validation errors, I still lose my data.

Why would all my submitted values re-render in the data table when there are validation errors, but not when there are not (I am skipping update model, so in either case it never fires)?

I can't see any difference in the code except that with validation errors there is at least one UI component marked as not being valid, but that doesn't seem like it should cause a behavior change with all components on the whole page. If it does how does that work (I couldn't see any such behavior in the code)?

I really need to get this sorted out, so if someone could shed some light on how UIData manages to have its child components render submitted values or not I'd really appreciate it.

Thanks,

Andrew