Guy Bashan schrieb:
Hi,
Is there a way to skip validation, but still post data to bean?
For example:
I have a screen in which data can be inputted. I also have a link near
one of the drop downs: "add new". When pressing "add new" user should
go to another screen allowing to enter a new item. Then when saving
new item user is directed to previous screen while preserving the
value when screen was left.
All my beans are "request scope". So I thought to use another session
bean to preserve the data, and when user comes back to the screen,
simply copy the data from session to the member of the bean. But, I
have a problem posting the data to the bean, when validation is still
not satisfied.
Any way of dealing with this issue in JSF?
No, I don't think you can do that. At least not without a whole lot of
complex code.
I would suggest just requiring the page to be valid before a new user
can be added.
The "myfaces orchestra flow" project is actually designed to support
this sort of thing. But that is still at an alpha-quality stage, and I
would not recommend it for general use at the moment.
If you *really* want to do this, then I think you'll need to either
(a) save the whole view tree before navigating to the "add new" page,
then restore it on return (what Orchestra Flow does), or
(b) walk the view tree and extract out the submittedValue property of
each component, and restore that later, or
(c) save the raw submitted form data then reprocess that on return to
the original view (minus the data that caused the "add new" command to
execute)
I don't think any of these are very easy.
Regards, Simon
