[jbossseam-issues] [JBoss JIRA] Created: (JBSEAM-3296) actions in .xhtml specified without parentheses do not match equivalent pages.xml navigation rules that do have parentheses, and vice verse

[Ian Springer (JIRA)]

actions in .xhtml specified without parentheses do not match equivalent pages.xml navigation rules  that do have parentheses, and vice verse
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                 Key: JBSEAM-3296
                 URL: https://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/JBSEAM-3296
             Project: Seam
          Issue Type: Bug
          Components: Framework
    Affects Versions: 2.0.1.GA
            Reporter: Ian Springer


I was banging my head against the wall for quite a while before I figured out why my pages.xml nav rule wasn't kicking in. 

In my .xhtml file, I had:

        <h:commandButton value="#{messages['button.ok']}" action="#{operationAction.invokeOperation}"/>

which was not matching the following rule in my pages.xml:

        <navigation from-action="#{operationAction.invokeOperation()}">
            <redirect view-id="/secure/resourceInstanceOperation.xhtml"/>
        </navigation>

(Note the h:commandButton action does not have parens, but the navigation from-action does have parens.

action.foo should match action.foo(), as well action.foo, and vice verse, being as they mean the exact same thing semantically. The current behavior is not intuitive and will cost users a lot of wasted time and frustration. 

Note, this bug exists for actions on s:buttons, as well as actions on h:commandButtons.


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