commandbutton action not being invoked if form contains programatically-defined selectitems

[Cedric Hurst]

I have an <h:form> which contains two <h:selectOneMenu> elements.  These
elements are being populated programatically with a <f:selectItems> tied to
a JSF managed bean which returns List<SelectItem>.  Unfortunately, when I
attempt to click the <h:commandButton> to invoke an action, the action does
not get processed.  I receive no error message, it just fails silently.  If
I remove the <h:selectOneMenu> elements from the code, the action is
processed fine.  Here are some code snippets:

JSP Code for the Form:

<h:form id="status">
        <p>Today, I'm working at
                <h:selectOneMenu value="#{event.placeId}">
                        <f:selectItem itemLabel="-- Select a location --" />
                        <f:selectItems value="#{place.placeOptions}"/>
                </h:selectOneMenu>
                 from 
                 
                 <h:selectOneMenu id="startTime" value="#{event.start}">
                        <f:selectItems value="#{event.possibleStartTimes}"/>
                 </h:selectOneMenu>
                 to 
                  <h:selectOneMenu id="endTime" value="#{event.finish}">
                        <f:selectItems value="#{event.possibleFinishTimes}"/>
                 </h:selectOneMenu>
                 
                <h:commandButton action="#{event.createEventAction}" 
value="Mowork"/>
        </p>
</h:form>

Managed Bean methods to Populate Menu Items:

private List<SelectItem> selectItemsFromTimeRange(Calendar begin, Calendar
end)
{
        List<SelectItem> items = new ArrayList<SelectItem>();
        
        while(begin.compareTo(end) < 0)
        {
                items.add(new SelectItem(
                        new Long(begin.getTimeInMillis()).toString(),
                        timeFormat.format(begin.getTime())
                ));
                
                begin.add(Calendar.MINUTE, 15);
        }
        
        return items;
}

public List<SelectItem> getPossibleStartTimes()
{
        Calendar time =
Calendar.getInstance(TimeZone.getTimeZone("America/Chicago"));
        
        List<SelectItem> items = new ArrayList<SelectItem>();
        
        items.add(new SelectItem(
                timeFormat.format(time.getTime()),
                "Right Now"
        ));
        
        Calendar begin = (Calendar)time.clone();
        begin.add(Calendar.MINUTE, 1);
        if(begin.get(Calendar.MINUTE)%15 != 0)
                begin.add(Calendar.MINUTE, 15-(begin.get(Calendar.MINUTE)%15));
        
        Calendar end = (Calendar)begin.clone();
        end.add(Calendar.HOUR, 24);
        
        items.addAll(selectItemsFromTimeRange(begin, end));
        
        return items;
}

public List<SelectItem> getPossibleFinishTimes()
{
        Calendar begin =
Calendar.getInstance(TimeZone.getTimeZone("America/Chicago"));
        begin.add(Calendar.MINUTE, 15);
        if(begin.get(Calendar.MINUTE)%15 != 0)
                begin.add(Calendar.MINUTE, 15-(begin.get(Calendar.MINUTE)%15));
        
        Calendar end = (Calendar)begin.clone();
        end.add(Calendar.HOUR, 24);
        
        return selectItemsFromTimeRange(begin, end);
}

Managed Bean method to Process Action:

public String createEventAction()
{
        System.out.println("create event action is running");
        return "createEventSuccess";
}

The full codebase for working and non-working versions can also be found
here:

http://trac.assembla.com/moworking/browser/branches/CreateEventActionWorkingWithNoSelectItems?rev=63

http://trac.assembla.com/moworking/browser/branches/CreateEventActionNotWorkingWithSelectItems?rev=65

Please let me know if you have any suggestions.

Environment
===
MyFaces Core 1.2.3
MyFaces Tomahawk 1.1.6
Apache Geronimo 2.1.2 (Tomcat)
Java HotSpot 1.5.0 64-bit Server VM
Apple Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Thanks,
- C
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