On Wed, 2008-04-30 at 12:27 -0400, Malik, Usman wrote: > Hi, > > I have a simple form with a drop-down list (storeNum), couple of > inputCalendar fields (minDate and maxDate) and a submit button. All 3 > controls are tied to a backing bean … the drop-down list is tied to a > String variable and the 2 calendar fields are tied to Date variables > (all have getter/setter methods). All 3 controls are set to some > initial value that I set in the backing bean programmatically. I also > have a submit button in the form that has its action set to a function > in the same backing bean as above. The function returns a blank string > at the end, so after all the processing the JSF navaigation should > re-load the same page. > > I am still a newbie at JSF but I believe that when I click the submit > button, all the tied variables in the backing bean should be updated > with the latest on-screen values, and then the action function should > be executed. Inside the action function, I simply check the values of > all my tied variables (storeNum, minDate, maxDate) before returning an > empty string. The problem I am running into is that if I change any of > the dates on-screen, they are not updated in the backing bean when I > interrogate them in the action function. However, the storeNum > variable IS updated correctly when I interrogate it in the action > function. > > Is the problem just in my understanding of the JSF model or something > else is at play here? Any help would be much appreciated. Btw, I have > tried the relevant example at Irian > [http://www.irian.at/myfacesexamples/calendar.jsf] and if I add an > action function and interrogate the date values, they are having the > same problem in that example too!
Hmm.. By "submit button", I presume you mean an h:commandButton. What you are seeing would be the expected behaviour if your commandButton had immediate=true set. In that case, the action method will be invoked before the properties that the other input controls reference. A common mistake is for a page to not have an h:messages tag; then when validation fails on a field it isn't obvious. But in your case, the action for the button is running, which would not happen if validation was failing. If you definitely are not setting the immediate flag, then I suggest including the actual JSF page in your next email so we can have a look. Regards, Simon
