[forge-dev] faces-scaffold: generated app breaks on ambiguity of property search and method search() when Seam Faces present

[Lincoln Baxter, III]

Ooooh that's an unfortunate problem! We can certainly change this, though.
I personally like the idea of "doSearch()" because it is more descriptive
than "example". WDYT?

~Lincoln

On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 5:39 AM, Thomas Frühbeck <fruehbeck at aon.at> wrote:

>  Hi,
>
> just found a subtle problem in the generated faces application.
> The backing beans carry the property "search" for form field based dynamic
> query and the method search() to invoke the selection.
> After adding Seam3 Faces module to the project the application fails on
> "Search" because the ELResolver will take the method search() instead of
> the property "search" first:
>
> Caused by: javax.el.PropertyNotFoundException: /searchTest/search.xhtml
> @34,90 value="#{searchTestBean.search.name}": Target Unreachable,
> 'search' returned null
>
> So I see 2 possibilities for remedy:
>     1. rename method "search()" to sth. like "doSearch()"
>     2. rename property "search" to "example"
>
> I personally like second poss. more, because it matches the kinda
> "query-by-example" mechanism and the method name "search()" is most
> descriptive.
>
> Any ideas welcome!
>
> Thomas
>
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