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Re: Problems with DynaFaces.fireAjaxTransaction

From: Roger Kitain <Roger.Kitain_at_Sun.COM>
Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2007 08:38:08 -0400

Hi Scott -

Any chance you can provide a war (contianig jsp's, beans, etc..)
for your application (if it's not too big)?

Thanks, Roger.

Scott wrote:
> I've been quite successful in creating a JSF application (1.2) using
> the jsf extensions to dynamically call and render portions of my jsf
> pages.
>
> So far so good.
>
> But I am having trouble on one of my pages. My navigation bar works
> just as it should, bringing me to various places in my application.
> Each link refreshes the entire page.
>
> I have narrowed my issue to the moment after I fire a dynamic ajax
> transaction, that thereafter, my navigation renders a only a portion
> of the page I am leaving from. The page renders a Dojo notebook, and
> the DynaFaces transaction updates a portion of the notebook page.
> When I try to navigate away from the whole page althogether, instead
> of going away, the JSF servlet returns the notebook page as the whole
> page without the surrounding notebook, and the page elements
> surrounding the notebook. Something in the DynaFaces request has
> caused the servlet to go into a partial state.
>
> This is an example of a control that causes this problem. I have two
> other examples from other tab panes that cause the exact same problem
> to occur, but this is just one:
>
> <h:selectOneListbox id="groupListBox"
> value="#{groupsBean.selectedGroup}"
> style="width:275px;height:309px"
> valueChangeListener="#{groupsBean.groupSelected}"
> onchange="DynaFaces.fireAjaxTransaction(this, {
> execute: 'groupListBox',
> render: 'selectedGroupName',
> immediate: true}); return false;"
> <f:selectItems value="#{groupsBean.groupItems}" />
> </h:selectOneListbox>
>
> This is calling a ValueChangeListener in the groupsBean, then
> rendering a portion of the page in response. It works too, only that
> after calling this once, my navigation is ruined.
>
> This even has its own form. The form I'm posting with for navigation
> is a different one, but I feel that this call must be affecting what
> is posted and how by the other form. I've looked at the http headers
> when navigation works and after the DynaFaces call when it no longer
> works. I can't see any difference.
>
> This is a pretty major bug ( in my code I'm assuming, of course ).
>
> Thanks in advance for any help you can give,
>
> Scott