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[solved] problem with BrowseBean in a custom Dialog

ethan — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 09:39:07 GMT

Hello I read the wiki page about Adding a Custom Dialog and I tried to use it to create my own custom Dialog to add tags to a Document node.I followed the instructions but when I test the Dialog, there's a NullPointerException in my AddTagsDialog.java class. The BrowseBean.getDocument() is null. T

Re: [solved] problem with BrowseBean in a custom Dialog

ethan — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 13:29:21 GMT

Ok I found my mistake. In the web-client-config-custom.xml file, the id of the parameter actionContext.id was set to "ref" and the BrowseBean.setupContentAction() method was waiting a parameter with the id "id".

Now that this works, I have another problem. in the AddTagsDialog class, the attribute tags is null. The class doesn't get the value from the inputText in the simpletags.jsp page

In the wiki tutorial, the inputText component in the JSP doesn't have any id or name. So how does the AddAspectDialog class know the value of this component?

Re: [solved] problem with BrowseBean in a custom Dialog

ethan — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 14:34:49 GMT

Ok, here is the solution. I just needed to write the inputText component as :

<h:inputText value="#{DialogManager.bean.tags}" />‍

I was reading the wiki page about DialogManager and I found out that bean was referring to my AddTagsDialog class and that I just needed to add tags to refer to the tags attribute of this class