Hi Rebecca,
Besides sending to me, you may want to send to dev_at_jsftemplating alias
as well so you can get advice from other members.
Please see my comments inline and suggestion at the end.
Rebecca Searls wrote:
> Anissa,
>
> I need advise on how to debug the MEP admin screens. It does not
> appear my
> jsftemplate handler method is ever getting called. I'm trying to
> track down
> the problem. I've looked for advise on the jsftemplate project
> site but have
> not found any helpful information. What do you suggest?
>
> I'm using NB 6.1. I created a maven2 project. I defined a couple of
> screens using the GF jdbcConnectionPool.jsf and JdbcHandlers.java
> as the model.
Just wondering, are you using the one in V2 or V3 ?
> I created a UserHandlers.java class with a single annotated
> method, getMepUserInfo.
> As in jdbcConnectionPool.jsf right after the setResourceBundle
> stmt method
> getJDBCConnectionPoolMaps is called, I instead call
> getMepUserInfo. The code
> compiles cleanly and the war deploys and runs without exceptions
> (i.e. the defined
> screen components display successfully). I have the following
> jsftemplating files
> in my local maven repository and they get pulled into the war file.
>
>
> jsf-api-1.2_07.jar
> admin.jar jsf-impl-1.2_07.jar
> admin-en.jar jsftemplating.jar
> admin-jsf.jar jsftemplating-dt.jar
> jsftemplating-dynafaces-0.1.jar
>
>
> In my web.xml file I set com.sun.jsftemplating.DEBUG to true. I
> though I would see
> debugging information in the server.log file but didn't. I added
> print stmts to
> my method getMepUserInfo but see no output to server.log either
Another convenient method to use for debugging is to use the println()
handler in your .jsf file.
You can add
println("I am about to call getMepUserInfo");
or
println("getMepUserInfo returns $attribute{listOfRows}");
or
println("in beforeCreate");
so you know what event is processed or result from your handler etc.
>
> I found on the jsftemplating site that a UserHandlers.map file
> should get generated
> at build time but I don't see one. I looked for a
> JdbcHandlers.map file in the
> adminGUI_war but did not find one. Not sure how to interpert this.
There should be the handler map known as
META-INF/jsftemplating/Handler.map in your jar. Do you have this ?
Can you send us the build script on how your project is built, maybe you
are missing the annotation processing ?
However, normally if this map file doesn't exist and you are calling the
method, you will get an exception, but you said you don't get any error
and the page shows fine. Thats what i can't explain.
Please put the debug statement in your jsf to see how it goes.
>
>
> The only method in UserHandlers.java
>
> @Handler(id="getMepUserInfo",
> input={
> @HandlerInput(name="selectedRows", type=List.class)},
> output={
> @HandlerOutput(name="result", type=java.util.List.class)}
> )
>
> public static void getMepUserInfo(HandlerContext handlerCtx) {
> System.out.println("Entered getUserInfo");
> List<Map> selectedList =
> (List)handlerCtx.getInputValue("selectedRows");
> }
>
>
>
> The call to getMepUserInfo in userAccountsGeneral.jsf
>
> <sun:page id="page1">
> <!beforeCreate
> setResourceBundle(key="i18n"
> bundle="com.sun.enterprise.tools.admingui.resources.Strings");
> setResourceBundle(key="msg" bundle="com.sun.i18n.adminResources")
>
println("Calling getMapUserInfo ");
> getMepUserInfo(selectedRows="$attribute{selectedRows}"
> result=>$attribute{listOfRows} );
println("getMapUserInfo() returns ${listOfRows}");
Let's see how the above suggestion goes.
Anissa.
>
> setPageSessionAttribute(key="editLink"
> value="/userAccts/userEdit.jsf");
> setPageSessionAttribute(key="createLink" value="userNew.jsf");
> setPageSessionAttribute(key="listPageLink"
> value="/userAccts/userAccountsGeneral.jsf");
> setPageSessionAttribute(key="resourceType"
> value="userAccountsGeneral");
> />