I think I've got the problem figured out because I am now able to get
the client side components to refresh based on the AJAX response. I had
to add an init-param to FacesServlet:
<servlet>
<servlet-name>Faces Servlet</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>javax.faces.webapp.FacesServlet</servlet-class>
<init-param>
<param-name>javax.faces.LIFECYCLE_ID</param-name>
<param-value>com.sun.faces.lifecycle.PARTIAL</param-value>
</init-param>
<load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
</servlet>
I found this solution by comparing a new Visual Web JSF project in
NetBeans 6.0.1 to my existing Visual Web project that has been around
since NB 5.5 days.
Now I have to fix some logic bugs. Also I haven't got the dojo client
side event listener stuff working yet.
Ryan
Ryan de Laplante wrote:
>
>> The Dynamic Faces life cycle also includes an XML state element
>> containing an encoded client state string (i.e., the state of the
>> entire JSF component tree). However, client state is maintained by
>> the Dynamic Faces JavaScript.
> https://woodstock.dev.java.net/docs/specs/ajax-architecture-spec.html
>
>
> Below is the captured response of a DropDown in my sample
> application, which works fine.
>
>> <partial-response><components><render
>> id="form1:prox"><markup><![CDATA[{"id":"form1:prox","widgetType"
>> :"webui.suntheme.widget.dropDown","visible":false,"tabIndex":-2147483648,"labelOnTop":true,"submitForm"
>>
>> :false,"label":{"id":"form1:prox:prox_label","valid":true,"level":2,"visible":true,"widgetType":"webui
>>
>> .suntheme.widget.label","value":"Proximity To Elevator
>> ","htmlFor":"form1:prox_list","required":false
>> },"multiple":false,"disabled":false,"options":[{"selected":false,"isTitle":false,"value":"","label":""
>>
>> ,"group":false,"escape":false,"disabled":false,"separator":false},{"selected":false,"isTitle":false,"value"
>>
>> :"beside","label":"Beside","group":false,"escape":false,"disabled":false,"separator":false},{"selected"
>>
>> :false,"isTitle":false,"value":"near","label":"Near","group":false,"escape":false,"disabled":false,"separator"
>>
>> :false},{"selected":false,"isTitle":false,"value":"far","label":"Far","group":false,"escape":false,"disabled"
>>
>> :false,"separator":false}],"size":1}]]></markup></render></components><state><![CDATA[H4sIAAAAAAAAAO0abWwcxXXu7PN3Q0gIkBaSIw0xgebO92UnZxMSx3ZycLZT20kgiDp7t2PfJnu3y
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>>
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>>
> The sample application code was designed to be copy/pasted into the
> real application once I got it working. When I make a selection in
> the real application, I see the AJAX-request being sent, the response
> coming back, but no <state> element:
>
>> <partial-response><components><render
>> id="form1:FLOORLEVEL"><markup><![CDATA[<span id="j_id124"><script
>> type="text/javascript">
>> //<![CDATA[
>> webui.suntheme.widget.common.createWidgetOnLoad("j_id124",{"id":"form1:FLOORLEVEL","widgetType":"webui
>>
>> .suntheme.widget.dropDown","visible":false,"onChange":"document.getElementById('form1:SMOKE').refresh
>>
>> ('form1:BEDTYPE,form1:ELEVATOR,form1:FLOORLEVEL,form1:SMOKE');
>> return false;","tabIndex":-2147483648
>> ,"labelOnTop":true,"submitForm":false,"label":{"fragment":"<label
>> id=\"form1:FLOORLEVEL:FLOORLEVEL_label
>> \" for=\"form1:FLOORLEVEL_list\" class=\"LblLev2Txt_sun4\">Floor
>> Level <\/label>"},"multiple":false,"disabled"
>> :false,"options":[],"size":1});
>> //]]]]><![CDATA[>
>> </script></span>]]></markup></render></components>
>
> What's more interesting is even though I get the value change events
> for each of the DropDowns, when the form is finally submitted only the
> first one has a value. The rest are stored as null.
> Firebug is able to show me the response data from my test
> application. Whenever I click on any of the request/response pairs, I
> can see the stuff I pasted above. In my real application, often it
> says "Loading..." as if the server hasn't responded yet. Sometimes it
> will show me the response for the first request but not the other two.
>
> I've spent more than a day looking at this, and will continue looking
> at it until it works. I'm just hoping someone might recognize
> something I did wrong, because this stuff is supposed to be easy.
> It's not supposed to be endless problems one after the other. I've
> spent a week trying to make 4 dynamically rendered dropdown lists work
> with AJAX!
>
>
>
> Thanks,
> Ryan
>
>
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