[jboss-user] [Beginners Corner] - How to use the @Factory annotation?

[mavoine]

Hi,

I'm new to Seam and I'm trying to use the @Factory annotation to initialize the properties of a Managed Bean upon request of a jsf page, no matter if the request comes from a JSF context or not (ex. from another servlet).

My bean is super simple (see included code below), it only has 2 properties (postDate and postText) which need to be initialized to a value fetched from the database. I'd like to make the initialization take place when the page is requested using a Factory method (myFactory). The page gets displayed but the method myFactory is never called. What am I doing wrong?

Thanks!
Math


  | ...
  | 
  | @Name("newsBean")
  | @Scope(ScopeType.SESSION)
  | public class NewsBean implements Serializable {
  | 	
  | 	private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
  | 	@In
  | 	ToolbarBean toolbarBean;
  | 	@In
  | 	SessionBean sessionBean;
  | 	@Out(required=false)
  | 	Date postDate;
  | 	@Out(required=false)
  | 	String postText;
  | 	
  | 	public String process(){
  | 
  | 		try {
  | 			// update toolbar
  | 			toolbarBean.setCurrentReport(ToolbarBean.CURRENT_REPORT_NOT_SET);
  | 			toolbarBean.setPrinterFriendlyPath("/dynamic/faces/dataview/newsPF.jsf");
  | 			toolbarBean.setShowExportToExcel(false);
  | 			toolbarBean.setReportName(TextResource.getTextResourceString(new TextKey("News"),null,sessionBean.getCurrentLocale()));
  | 			toolbarBean.setRefreshAction("newsBean.process");
  | 
  | 			Language language = LanguageDAO.getInstance().findByPk(sessionBean.getLanguageCode());
  | 			News news = NewsService.getInstance().findCurrentNews();
  | 			postDate = news.getNewsTime();
  | 			postText = news.getNewsDescription().getText(language);
  | 
  | 		} catch (Exception ex){
  | 			MessageHandler.handleGenericException(ex);
  | 			return "error";
  | 		}
  | 		
  | 		return "success";
  | 	}
  | 	
  | 	@Factory("postDate")
  | 	public void myFactory(){
  | 		process();
  | 	}
  | 
  | ...
  | 

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