outPutText not being updated when a commndButton is pressed - jsf-2

im working on a JSF 2.0 project on TomEE server. i have a problem on a JSF view, im trying to update an outPutText when a button is clicked, but it is not working.
here's the form of the xhtml view:
<h:form>
<h:outputText style="width: 600px;" styleClass="infoVista" value="# {mensajes.BloqueoMaestra}" />
<p:commandButton actionListener="#{procesar.procesarPeticion()}" update="mensaje" value="Buscar Bloqueos">
<f:param name="proceso" value="bloqueo" />
</p:commandButton>
<h:outputText rendered="true" value="#{procesar.respuesta}" id="mensaje" />
</h:form>
And here is the Bean proccesing the view:
#Named("procesar")
#ViewScoped
public class procesarOpcion {
String respuesta = "";
public procesarOpcion(){
}
public String getRespuesta() {
return respuesta;
}
public String procesarPeticion(){
String proceso = FacesContext.getCurrentInstance().getExternalContext().getRequestParameterMap().get("proceso");
if (proceso.equals("bloqueo")){
respuesta = "Update this ";
}
}
Evething is working, the method procesarPeticion() is being called and the variable respuesta is filled but the view is not updating when i press the Commandbutton.
Thanks for your help.

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PrimeFaces commandButton doesn't navigate

I have this code :
Add.xhtml :
<h:form id="nouv">
<h:panelGrid columns="2">
<h:outputText value="Nom:"></h:outputText>
<p:inputText value="#{ddeBean.nom}"></p:inputText>
<p:commandButton id="save"
value="ajouter"
update=":nouv:btn"
actionListener="#{ddeBean.ajouter}">
</p:commandButton>
<p:outputPanel id="btn">
<h:outputText rendered="#{ddeBean.created}" value="#{ddeBean.message}"/>
<p:commandButton id="btn_cr" value="add" rendered="#{ddeBean.created}"
action="pool.xhtml?faces-redirect=true">
</p:commandButton>
</p:outputPanel>
</h:panelGrid>
</h:form>
ddeBean.java :
#ManagedBean(name = "ddeBean")
#RequestScoped
public class DemandeBean implements Serializable{
ddeDAO dao = new ddeDaoImpl();
private String nom;
public String message = "";
private boolean created = false;
public void test(ActionEvent event){
Demande p = new Demande();
p.setDde(this.nom);
dao.Nouveau_dde(p);
created = true;
this.setMessage("saved!");
}
}
When I click commandButton Ajouter the message an the commandbutton Add will be shown, but commandbutton Add doesn't redirect to pool.xhtml.
When you click on the button Add, the bean is recreated and the value #{ddeBean.created} then reinitialized to false so the button doesn't get rendered before action take place.
To fix that, you need to change the scope of your bean to #ViewScoped.
You should also make sure to replace
public void test(ActionEvent event){
by
public void ajouter(ActionEvent event){
if you want that your button work properly.
Another solution
Since you are using PrimeFaces, you could show your button by JavaScript :
<p:commandButton id="save"
value="ajouter"
oncomplete="panel-create.show();"
actionListener="#{ddeBean.ajouter}">
</p:commandButton>
<p:outputPanel id="btn" style="display: none;" widgetVar="panel-create">
<h:outputText value="#{ddeBean.message}"/>
<p:commandButton id="btn_cr" value="add"
action="pool.xhtml?faces-redirect=true">
</p:commandButton>
</p:outputPanel>
Note the oncomplete attribute on the p:commandButton, the widgetVar attribute on the p:panel and the rendered attributes removed.

JSF #ViewScoped Bean State is Lost

I am using #ViewScoped Bean for small CRUD application I have a edit and view page but when I click buttons (edit) it will render edit form. After edit form appears the save button or cancel button does not call the function but renders the whole page. The actionListener's function is not called at all and everthing is initialized. Is something wrong with my bean and page?? I am using JSF 2 with richfaces and facelet.
//ViewScoped Bean
/*
* To change this template, choose Tools | Templates
* and open the template in the editor.
*/
package com.legendMgr.Legend;
import java.io.Serializable;
import java.sql.SQLException;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.logging.Logger;
import javax.annotation.PostConstruct;
import javax.faces.application.FacesMessage;
import javax.faces.bean.ManagedBean;
import javax.faces.bean.ViewScoped;
import javax.faces.context.FacesContext;
/**
*
* #author kitex
*/
#ManagedBean(name = "legendbean")
#ViewScoped
public class LegendController implements Serializable {
LegendDTO legendDTO;
String selectedLegend;
List<LegendDTO> legendDTOs;
boolean edit;
public List<LegendDTO> getLegendDTOs() {
return legendDTOs;
}
public void setLegendDTOs(List<LegendDTO> legendDTOs) {
this.legendDTOs = legendDTOs;
}
#PostConstruct
void initialiseSession() {
FacesContext.getCurrentInstance().getExternalContext().getSession(true);
}
public LegendController() {
if (!edit) {
legendDTO = new LegendDTO();
legendDTO.getList().add(new Legend());
legendDTOs = getLegends();
}
}
public String getSelectedLegend() {
return selectedLegend;
}
public void setSelectedLegend(String selectedLegend) {
this.selectedLegend = selectedLegend;
}
public boolean isEdit() {
return edit;
}
public void setEdit(boolean edit) {
this.edit = edit;
}
public LegendDTO getLegendDTO() {
return legendDTO;
}
public void setLegendDTO(LegendDTO legendDTO) {
this.legendDTO = legendDTO;
}
public void addLegendRange() {
Logger.getLogger(LegendController.class.getName()).warning("List Size " + legendDTO.getList().size());
legendDTO.getList().add(new Legend());
Logger.getLogger(LegendController.class.getName()).warning("List Size " + legendDTO.getList().size());
}
public void removeLegendRange(Legend legend) {
if (legendDTO.getList().size() != 1) {
legendDTO.getList().remove(legend);
}
}
public String saveLegend() {
Logger.getLogger(LegendController.class.getName()).warning("Save Legend Edit" + edit);
LegendDAO dao = new LegendDAO();
if (dao.addLegend(legendDTO, edit)) {
edit = false;
Logger.getLogger(LegendController.class.getName()).warning("Save Legend Edit" + edit);
} else {
FacesContext.getCurrentInstance().addMessage(null, new FacesMessage("Could Not Save Confim if you have already defined Legend " + legendDTO.getLegendName() + "!"));
}
return "";
}
public String cancel() {
edit = false;
legendDTO = new LegendDTO();
legendDTO.getList().add(new Legend());
return "";
}
public List<LegendDTO> getLegends() {
LegendDAO dao = new LegendDAO();
return dao.getLegendDTO();
}
//All function from here are for legend delete
public void deleteLegendType(LegendDTO dto) {
LegendDAO dao = new LegendDAO();
if (dao.deleteLegendType(dto.getLegendName())) {
FacesContext.getCurrentInstance().addMessage(null, new FacesMessage("Deleted !"));
} else {
FacesContext.getCurrentInstance().addMessage(null, new FacesMessage("Deleted Error !"));
}
}
//All function from here is to legend edit
public void editLegendType(LegendDTO dto) {
edit = true;
Logger.getLogger(LegendController.class.getName()).warning("DTO : " + dto.legendName);
legendDTO = dto;
LegendDAO dao = new LegendDAO();
Logger.getLogger(LegendController.class.getName()).warning("Edit dto set");
try {
List<Legend> legends = dao.getDetailForEditLegend(dto.getLegendName());
if (legends == null || legends.isEmpty()) {
dto.getList().add(new Legend());
} else {
dto.setList(legends);
}
} catch (SQLException ex) {
Logger.getLogger(LegendController.class.getName()).warning("SQL EXception has occoured");
}
Logger.getLogger(LegendController.class.getName()).warning("In Edit Legend Function The size of list" + dto.getList().size());
}
}
//xhtml code
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8' ?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
xmlns:h="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html"
xmlns:rich="http://richfaces.org/rich"
xmlns:a4j="http://richfaces.org/a4j"
xmlns:f="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core"
xmlns:ui="http://java.sun.com/jsf/facelets">
<h:head>
<title>Facelet Title</title>
</h:head>
<h:body>
<ui:composition template="/legendTemplate.xhtml">
<ui:define name="windowTitle">Change Legend</ui:define>
<ui:define name="content">
<h:messages globalOnly="true"/>
<rich:panel id="firstPanel">
<h:form id="nis_viewLegend">
<rich:dataTable id="data_tbl" value="#{legendbean.legendDTOs}" var="legendDTOvar" style="width:100%" rendered="#{!legendbean.edit and not empty legendbean.legendDTOs}">
<rich:column>
<f:facet name="header">
<h:outputText value="Description"/>
</f:facet>
<h:outputText value="#{legendDTOvar.desc}"/>
</rich:column>
<rich:column>
<f:facet name="header">
<h:outputText value="Legend Type"/>
</f:facet>
<h:outputText value="#{legendDTOvar.legendName}"/>
</rich:column>
<rich:column>
<f:facet name="header">
<h:outputText value="Legend Type"/>
</f:facet>
<h:outputText value="#{legendDTOvar.legendFor}"/>
</rich:column>
<rich:column>
<a4j:commandLink value="Delete" actionListener="#{legendbean.deleteLegendType(legendDTOvar)}" render=":firstPanel"/>
<h:outputText value="/"/>
<a4j:commandLink value="Edit" actionListener="#{legendbean.editLegendType(legendDTOvar)}" render=":secondPanel :editLegendForm :nis_viewLegend"/>
</rich:column>
</rich:dataTable>
</h:form>
</rich:panel>
<rich:panel id="secondPanel">
<h:form id="editLegendForm" rendered="#{legendbean.edit}">
<h:outputText value="Legend Name"/><br/>
<h:inputText value="#{legendbean.legendDTO.legendName}" readonly="true"/><br/>
<h:outputText value="Description"/><br/>
<h:inputText value="#{legendbean.legendDTO.desc}"/><br/>
<h:outputText value="Legend For"/><br/>
<h:inputText value="#{legendbean.legendDTO.legendFor}"/><br/>
<br/>
<h:outputText value="Range" />
<rich:dataTable id="editDataPnl" value="#{legendbean.legendDTO.list}" var="legend" style="width:100%">
<rich:column>
<f:facet name="header">
<h:outputText value="SN"/>
</f:facet>
<h:inputText value="#{legend.sn}"/>
</rich:column>
<rich:column>
<f:facet name="header">
<h:outputText value="Description"/>
</f:facet>
<h:inputText value="#{legend.desc}"/>
</rich:column>
<rich:column>
<f:facet name="header">
<h:outputText value="Lower Range"/>
</f:facet>
<h:inputText value="#{legend.lowerRange}"/>
</rich:column>
<rich:column>
<f:facet name="header">
<h:outputText value="Upper Range"/>
</f:facet>
<h:inputText value="#{legend.upperRange}"/>
</rich:column>
<rich:column>
<f:facet name="header">
<h:outputText value="Color"/>
</f:facet>
<h:inputText value="#{legend.color}"/>
</rich:column>
<rich:column>
<a4j:commandLink value="Add" actionListener="#{legendbean.addLegendRange}" render=":secondPanel"/>
<h:outputText value=" / "/>
<a4j:commandLink value="Remove" actionListener="#{legendbean.removeLegendRange(legend)}" render=":secondPanel"/>
</rich:column>
</rich:dataTable>
<br/>
<center>
<a4j:commandButton value="SAVE" action="#{legendbean.saveLegend()}" render=":firstPanel :secondPanel"/>
<a4j:commandButton value="CANCEL" action="#{legendbean.cancel()}" render=":firstPanel :secondPanel"/>
</center>
</h:form>
</rich:panel>
</ui:define>
</ui:composition>
</h:body>
</html>
In ViewScope, once the view is built, for example form.xhtml, its data will last as long you do not go away from this view. To stay in the same view you should call methods that has return type void (which are usually used in actionListener property) or return null, in case of returning an outcome for navigation.
Method expression
In your case your methods are void but instead of passing it to the action listener you're calling it in the view.
Try changing similar code like this:
<a4j:commandButton value="SAVE" actionListener="#{legendbean.saveLegend()}" render="mainPnl"/>
To this:
<a4j:commandButton value="SAVE" actionListener="#{legendbean.saveLegend}" render="mainPnl"/>
As actionListener property already expects a method expression.
Form inside dataTable
Also I noticed you have a form inside your dataTable. That could lead to strange behavior because your form has an id it will be repeated in the resulting page. For that you should try placing the form outside the dataTable.
Even better you could have only one form enclosing the entire code as nested forms are invalid HTML code.
I would suggest you check your legendTemplate.xhtml against nested forms too.
Bean construction
In order to initialize your bean state it is recommended to use a #PostContruct method instead of the bean constructor.
Try changing from this:
public LegendController() {
legendDTO = new LegendDTO();
legendDTO.getList().add(new Legend());
}
To this:
#PostConstruct
public void reset() {
legendDTO = new LegendDTO();
legendDTO.getList().add(new Legend());
}
And delete your constructor.
Your bean data should be kept as long as you're in the same view (aka .xhtml page).
I hope it helps.
I am having the same problem. I don't think the answers above really address the question. He is not having a problem as a result of submitting any forms - pressing those buttons themselves results in the whole page re-rendering, which means that the reference to the view state is already gone before the button is pressed. This is what I am observing as well. For me, it only happens when there are a lot of large search results, and simply re-submitting the same search I just did re-renders the page (without executing the search). I believe the problem has to do with a limit on the amount of data that can be passed to the server in a form: in view scope, all of the data is serialized and passed around in one long hidden value as a value in the form. If that value is too long the server won't accept it and, therefore, will not remember the previous state.
I know this is not definitive, but this is only thread out there on this problem I can find so I hope it helps shed light for others or inspires better information. If you have something more definitive please let us know.
Edit: I am convinced now that this was the problem. My model bean had a reference to a file blob. Once I replaced that reference with a boolean (only needed to know if it existed) the problem went away. Try passing around references to your DTOs/DAOs instead of the objects themselves, or mark them as "transient" where you don't need them to persist. Or, if possible, lighten the objects as I did.
Did you try to return null for functions saveLegend() and cancel() instead of returning empty string?
public String saveLegend() {
---------
return null;
}
public String cancel() {
----------
return null;
}
Return can also be void for ajax request. But if I remember it correctly for richfaces returning null is the only solution. Give it a try. :)
The cancel() works as it reinitialize the bean.
As answered by Bento you cannot pass values using actionListener. Use action instead.
Further Reading:
JSF 2 ViewScope questions
JSF2 Action parameter
Differences between action and actionListener

Primefaces ajax row selection fail to update values in dialog

I have a data table that will display a detail dialog on row select event. However, the dialog does not show any values of the selected object. I can see that the selected object is properly set during debug session.
The table consists of rows of students and it is suppose to display a popup dialog showing detailed information on row selection event.
The StudentBean:
#Named(value = "studentBean")
#SessionScoped
public class StudentBean {
#Inject
private UserFacade userFacade;
private List<User> studentList;
private User selectedStudent;
public StudentBean() {
}
#PostConstruct
public void init() {
studentList = userFacade.findAll();
}
public List<User> getStudentList() {
return studentList;
}
public void setStudentList(List<User> studentList) {
this.studentList = studentList;
}
public User getSelectedStudent() {
return selectedStudent;
}
public void setSelectedStudent(User student) {
this.selectedStudent = student;
}
public void onRowSelect(SelectEvent event) {
}
public void onRowUnselect(UnselectEvent event) {
//FacesMessage msg = new FacesMessage("Student Unselected", ((User) event.getObject()).getFirstName());
//FacesContext.getCurrentInstance().addMessage("messages", msg);
}
}
The Facelet page:
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8' ?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
xmlns:ui="http://java.sun.com/jsf/facelets"
xmlns:h ="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html"
xmlns:p ="http://primefaces.org/ui">
<body>
<ui:composition template="./layout.xhtml">
<ui:define name="content">
<h:form id="studentForm">
<p:dataTable var="student" value="#{studentBean.studentList}"
selectionMode="single"
selection="#{studentBean.selectedStudent}" rowKey="#{student.id}">
<p:ajax event="rowSelect" listener="#{studentBean.onRowSelect}"
update=":studentForm:studentDetail" oncomplete="studentDialog.show()"
global="true" immediate="true"
/>
<p:ajax event="rowUnselect" listener="#{studentBean.onRowUnselect}" />
<p:column headerText="First Name">
<h:outputText value="#{student.firstName}" />
</p:column>
<p:column headerText="Last Name">
<h:outputText value="#{student.lastName}" />
</p:column>
<p:column headerText="Student ID">
<h:outputText value="#{student.studentid}" />
</p:column>
</p:dataTable>
<p:dialog id="dialog" header="Student Detail" widgetVar="studentDialog" resizable="false"
showEffect="fade" hideEffect="fade" appendToBody="true">
<h:panelGrid id="studentDetail" columns="2" cellpadding="4">
<h:outputText value="First Name: " />
<h:outputText value="#{studentBean.selectedStudent.firstName}" />
<h:outputText value="Last Name: " />
<h:outputText value="#{studentBean.selectedStudent.lastName}" />
</h:panelGrid>
</p:dialog>
</ui:define>
</ui:composition>
</body>
</html>
I'm following the Car data table example from the Primefaces Showcase page. It seems so simple there but I can't seem to display the selectedStudent information no matter what I do. The dialog shows up fine but the firstName and lastName values are empty.
I tried the following:
Putting the dialog into another form
Use process="#form"
Use process=":studentForm:studentDetail"
What am I doing wrong?
Primefaces 3.3.1,
Glassfish 3.1.2
I removed global="true" immediate="true", unused listeners
from p:ajax, synchronized rowKey="#{student.id}"
with expression from "Student ID" column and populated
studentList inside #PostConstruct init() function not knowing how yours userFacade code is, and it works.

JSF El expression retaining old value (JSF life cycle)

I have create a test project with JSF2.0 and richfaces. I am trying to plot chart. Now, I got value from database to bean and to datatable. Now when I wanted to pass this value to javascript varible and found this answer from The BalusC very userful. It works fine but the value that javascript variable gets after oncomplete="jsonDemo('#{kpilist.json}')". i.e. the value of #{kpilist.json} is not up-to-date it's last one.
I have printed the value of #{kpilist.json}. If it's printed afer datatabe the value is current. If it's printed before datatable it's last value. Any way since oncomplete attribute of a4j:ajax executes after eveything is completed why doesn't #{kpilist.json} show latest value? What is the order of execution of various listener and oncomplete attributes of richfaces and jsf component?
My Managed Bean:
#ManagedBean(name = "kpilist")
#ViewScoped
public class KPIListController implements Serializable {
private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
boolean state = true;
String selectedKPIType;
String selectKPITime = "D";
boolean renderDatatable;
String json;
public String getJson() {
return json;
}
public boolean isRenderDatatable() {
return renderDatatable;
}
public void setRenderDatatable(boolean renderDatatable) {
this.renderDatatable = renderDatatable;
}
public boolean isState() {
return state;
}
public List<String> showViewList() {
Logger.getLogger(KPIListController.class.getName()).warning("Show view List:");
KPIDAO kpiDAO = new KPIDAO();
try {
Logger.getLogger(KPIListController.class.getName()).info("Into show view List ---select One");
return kpiDAO.showViewList(selectKPITime);
} catch (SQLException ex) {
ex.printStackTrace();
Logger.getLogger(KPIListController.class.getName()).log(Level.SEVERE, null, ex);
return null;
}
}
public void setState(boolean state) {
this.state = state;
}
public String getSelectedKPIType() {
return selectedKPIType;
}
public void setSelectedKPIType(String selectedKPIType) {
this.selectedKPIType = selectedKPIType;
}
public String getSelectKPITime() {
return selectKPITime;
}
public void setSelectKPITime(String selectKPITime) {
this.selectKPITime = selectKPITime;
}
public List<KPI> getKPI() {
Logger.getLogger(KPIListController.class.getName()).warning("Get KPI Values:");
KPIDAO kpiDAO = new KPIDAO();
List<KPI> kpiList = new ArrayList<KPI>();
try {
kpiList = kpiDAO.getKPI(selectedKPIType);
Logger.getLogger(KPIListController.class.getName()).warning("KPI List:"+kpiList.size());
} catch (SQLException ex) {
ex.printStackTrace();
return null;
}
Gson gson = new Gson();
json= gson.toJson(kpiList);
return kpiList;
}
public void resetFormValues() {
Logger.getLogger(KPIListController.class.getName()).warning("Reset form:");
selectedKPIType = "--";
}
}
My View:
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
xmlns:h="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html"
xmlns:rich="http://richfaces.org/rich"
xmlns:f="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core"
xmlns:a4j="http://richfaces.org/a4j"
xmlns:ui="http://java.sun.com/jsf/facelets"
xmlns:c="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core">
<h:head>
</h:head>
<h:body>
<ui:composition template="/contentTemplate.xhtml">
<ui:define name="windowTitle">KPI Index</ui:define>
<ui:define name="content" >
<h:outputScript name="js/graphics/jquery.js"/>
<h:outputStylesheet name="/css/jquery-ui-1.8.22.custom.css"/>
<h:outputScript name="js/graphics/jquery-ui-1.8.22.custom.min.js"/>
<h:outputScript name="js/OpenLayers/OpenLayers.js"/>
<h:outputScript name="js/graphics/raphael-min.js"/>
<h:outputScript name="js/graphics/canvg.js"/>
<h:outputScript name="js/graphics/paths.js"/>
<h:outputScript name="js/graphics/draw.js"/>
<h:form id="ins_sel_form">
<h:outputText value="KPI TIME FRAME"/>
<h:selectOneRadio value="#{kpilist.selectKPITime}" >
<f:selectItem itemLabel="DAILY" itemValue="D" />
<f:selectItem itemLabel="WEEKLY" itemValue="W" />
<f:selectItem itemLabel="LAST WEEK" itemValue="LW" />
<a4j:ajax event="change" render="ins_sel_form:selectOnemenu dataPnl" listener="#{kpilist.resetFormValues()}" />
</h:selectOneRadio>
<h:outputText value="Major KPI Type"/>
<h:selectOneMenu id="selectOnemenu" value="#{kpilist.selectedKPIType}" >
<f:selectItem itemValue="--" itemLabel="--"></f:selectItem>
<f:selectItems itemValue="#{item.toString()}" var="item" itemLabel="#{item.toString()}" value="#{kpilist.showViewList()}"/>
<a4j:ajax event="change" render="dataPnl" oncomplete="jsonDemo('#{kpilist.json}')" />
</h:selectOneMenu>
<h:outputText value="Show / Hide Map"/>
</h:form>
<rich:panel id ="dataPnl">
<rich:dataTable id="kpiValueTable" value="#{kpilist.KPI}" var="kpi" style="width:100%" rows="20" rendered="#{kpilist.selectedKPIType!=null and kpilist.selectedKPIType !='--' }" >
<rich:column>
<f:facet name="header" >
<h:outputText value ="Value"></h:outputText>
</f:facet>
<h:outputText value="#{kpi.KPIValue}"></h:outputText>
</rich:column>
</rich:dataTable>
JSON String : <h:outputText id="json" value ="#{kpilist.json}"/>
<center><rich:dataScroller for="kpiValueTable" rendered="#{kpilist.selectedKPIType!=null and kpilist.selectedKPIType!='--'}"/></center>
</rich:panel>
<rich:panel id="map" style="display: none;">
</rich:panel>
</ui:define>
</ui:composition>
</h:body>
</html>
Javascript:
function jsonDemo(jsonString){
console.log("Chart data already retrieved: " + jsonString);
var data = $.parseJSON(jsonString);
$.each(data,function(i,val){
console.log("The value of i: "+i+" The val: "+val.NCELLCLUSTER);
});
}
The EL expression in your oncomplete is evaluated at the moment the HTML/JS code is generated by JSF (thus, on the initial HTTP request). It's not evaluated at the moment the oncomplete is executed in JS as you seem to expect. It's not the webbrowser who evaluates EL expressions, it's the webserver. The oncomplete is by the way just executed after render. With a HTTP traffic debugger and a JS debugger (press F12 in Chrome/IE9/Firebug) you can easily track it.
There are several possibilities to solve this:
Just invoke a $.get() or $.getJSON() in jQuery and do the job in a normal servlet instead, or better, a JAX-RS webservice.
function jsonDemo() {
$.getJSON("servletURL", function(jsonData) {
// ...
});
}
Replace the oncomplete by some <h:outputScript> which you render/update by ajax.
<a4j:ajax ... render="json" />
...
<h:panelGroup id="json">
<h:outputScript rendered="#{not empty bean.json}">jsonDemo(#{bean.json});</h:outputScript>
</h:panelGroup>
Unrelated to the concrete problem, you've there by the way a conceptual mistake as to passing around JSON data. You're stringifying it while passing as argument like so jsonDemo('#{kpilist.json}') and then you're parsing the JSON afterwards using $.parseJSON(). This makes no sense. Remove those singlequotes around the argument like so jsonDemo(#{kpilist.json}) and then you don't need that $.parseJSON() line anymore. The data is then already in JSON format.
Try changing from a4j:ajax to f:ajax
not sure if a4j:ajax works with plain JSF components

Checkbox inside ui:repeat not refreshed by Ajax

I work with Mojarra 2.1.3.
When the user click on button "refresh don't work", it refresh the content of the ui:repeat.I expect the checkbox to be checked, just as at the initialization.
What I've found: If I remove h:head in the facelet "refresh don't work" works... Any idea ?
The facelet:
<h:head></h:head>
<h:body>
<h:form id="myForm" >
<h:panelGroup id="panelToRefreshOutsideRepeat">
<ui:repeat value="#{sandbox.columns}" var="column">
<h:panelGroup id="panelToRefreshInsideRepeat">
<h2>composite onlyCheckbox:</h2>
<trc:onlyCheckbox value="#{column.value}" />
<br />
<h2>composite onlyInputText:</h2>
<trc:onlyInputText value="#{column.value}" />
<br />
<br/>
<h:commandButton value="Refresh don't work" >
<f:ajax render="panelToRefreshInsideRepeat" />
</h:commandButton>
<h:commandButton value="Refresh work" >
<f:ajax render=":myForm:panelToRefreshOutsideRepeat" />
</h:commandButton>
</h:panelGroup>
<br/>
</ui:repeat>
</h:panelGroup>
The composite for onlyCheckbox and onlyInputText:
<composite:interface>
<composite:attribute name="value"
type="boolean"/>
</composite:interface>
<composite:implementation>
boolean: <h:selectBooleanCheckbox value="#{cc.attrs.value}" />
<!-- for onlyInputText h:inputText instead of h:selectBooleanCheckbox -->
boolean value: #{cc.attrs.value}
</composite:implementation>
and the backing bean:
#ManagedBean
#RequestScoped
public class Sandbox {
public List<Column> columns = Arrays.asList(new Column(true));
public List<Column> getColumns() {
return columns;
}
public void setColumns(List<Column> columns) {
this.columns = columns;
}
public class Column {
private boolean value;
public Column(boolean value) {
this.value = value;
}
public void setValue(boolean value) {
this.value = value;
}
public boolean getValue() {
return this.value;
}
}
}
I can reproduce your problem even on latest Mojarra 2.1.4. It works fine if the checkbox is not inside a composite. This is a bug in Mojarra's <ui:repeat>. It is totally broken in Mojarra. It works perfectly fine on MyFaces 2.1.3.
You have 2 options:
Replace Mojarra by MyFaces.
Use an UIData component instead of <ui:repeat>, e.g. <h:dataTable>, <t:dataList>, <p:dataList>, etc.

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