[jboss-user] [JBoss Seam] - EL enhancements inside Facelet templates - got an exception

ASavitsky do-not-reply at jboss.com
Mon Apr 9 10:11:25 EDT 2007


What I was trying to achieve was a generic sortable header for dataTable. Here's the template:

header.xhtml
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
  | 	"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
  | <ui:composition xmlns:h="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html"
  | 	xmlns:f="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core"
  | 	xmlns:ui="http://java.sun.com/jsf/facelets">
  | 	<h:column>
  | 		<f:facet name="header">
  | 			<h:commandLink action="#{bean.sort(columnName)}">
  | 				<h:outputText value="#{columnLabel}" />
  | 				<h:outputText value="#{sortAscending ? ' ASC' : ' DESC'}"
  | 					rendered="#{sortColumn == columnName}" />
  | 			</h:commandLink>
  | 		</f:facet>
  | 		<ui:insert />
  | 	</h:column>
  | </ui:composition>
  | 

This template is declared in Facelet taglib as:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
  | <!DOCTYPE facelet-taglib PUBLIC
  | 	"-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD Facelet Taglib 1.0//EN"
  | 	"https://facelets.dev.java.net/source/browse/*checkout*/facelets/src/etc/facelet-taglib_1_0.dtd">
  | <facelet-taglib>
  | 	<namespace>http://www.tdsecurities.com/jsf</namespace>
  | 	<tag>
  | 		<tag-name>header</tag-name>
  | 		<source>tags/header.xhtml</source>
  | 	</tag>
  | </facelet-taglib>
  | 

and is used as follows:

	<h:dataTable id="table" var="auditRecord" value="#{auditRecords}" rows="10">
  | 		<c:header bean="#{auditLog}" columnName="id" columnLabel="ID">
  | 			<h:commandLink value="#{auditRecord.id}" action="#{auditLog.select}" />
  | 		</c:header>
  | 	</h:dataTable>
  | 

The link renders, but clicking on it yields:

ERROR [org.jboss.seam.web.ExceptionFilter] - uncaught exception  
  | javax.servlet.ServletException: Error calling action method of component with id _id4:table:_id19
  | 	at javax.faces.webapp.FacesServlet.service(FacesServlet.java:154)
  | 	at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:252)
  | 	at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:173)
  | 	at org.jboss.seam.web.SeamFilter$FilterChainImpl.doFilter(SeamFilter.java:63)
  | 	at org.jboss.seam.debug.hot.HotDeployFilter.doFilter(HotDeployFilter.java:60)
  | 	at org.jboss.seam.web.SeamFilter$FilterChainImpl.doFilter(SeamFilter.java:49)
  | 	at org.jboss.seam.web.RedirectFilter.doFilter(RedirectFilter.java:45)
  | 	at org.jboss.seam.web.SeamFilter$FilterChainImpl.doFilter(SeamFilter.java:49)
  | 	at org.jboss.seam.web.ExceptionFilter.doFilter(ExceptionFilter.java:57)
  | 	at org.jboss.seam.web.SeamFilter$FilterChainImpl.doFilter(SeamFilter.java:49)
  | 	at org.jboss.seam.web.MultipartFilter.doFilter(MultipartFilter.java:79)
  | 	at org.jboss.seam.web.SeamFilter$FilterChainImpl.doFilter(SeamFilter.java:49)
  | 	at org.jboss.seam.web.SeamFilter.doFilter(SeamFilter.java:84)
  | 	at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:202)
  | 	at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:173)
  | 	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:213)
  | 	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:178)
  | 	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:126)
  | 	at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:105)
  | 	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:107)
  | 	at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:148)
  | 	at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:869)
  | 	at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11BaseProtocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.processConnection(Http11BaseProtocol.java:664)
  | 	at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.PoolTcpEndpoint.processSocket(PoolTcpEndpoint.java:527)
  | 	at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.LeaderFollowerWorkerThread.runIt(LeaderFollowerWorkerThread.java:80)
  | 	at org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadPool.java:684)
  | 	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:595)
  | ERROR [org.jboss.seam.web.ExceptionFilter] - exception root cause  
  | javax.faces.FacesException: Error calling action method of component with id _id4:table:_id19
  | 	at org.apache.myfaces.application.ActionListenerImpl.processAction(ActionListenerImpl.java:77)
  | 	at javax.faces.component.UICommand.broadcast(UICommand.java:109)
  | 	at javax.faces.component.UIData.broadcast(UIData.java:517)
  | 	at javax.faces.component.UIViewRoot._broadcastForPhase(UIViewRoot.java:97)
  | 	at javax.faces.component.UIViewRoot.processApplication(UIViewRoot.java:171)
  | 	at org.apache.myfaces.lifecycle.InvokeApplicationExecutor.execute(InvokeApplicationExecutor.java:32)
  | 	at org.apache.myfaces.lifecycle.LifecycleImpl.executePhase(LifecycleImpl.java:95)
  | 	at org.apache.myfaces.lifecycle.LifecycleImpl.execute(LifecycleImpl.java:70)
  | 	at javax.faces.webapp.FacesServlet.service(FacesServlet.java:139)
  | 	at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:252)
  | 	at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:173)
  | 	at org.jboss.seam.web.SeamFilter$FilterChainImpl.doFilter(SeamFilter.java:63)
  | 	at org.jboss.seam.debug.hot.HotDeployFilter.doFilter(HotDeployFilter.java:60)
  | 	at org.jboss.seam.web.SeamFilter$FilterChainImpl.doFilter(SeamFilter.java:49)
  | 	at org.jboss.seam.web.RedirectFilter.doFilter(RedirectFilter.java:45)
  | 	at org.jboss.seam.web.SeamFilter$FilterChainImpl.doFilter(SeamFilter.java:49)
  | 	at org.jboss.seam.web.ExceptionFilter.doFilter(ExceptionFilter.java:57)
  | 	at org.jboss.seam.web.SeamFilter$FilterChainImpl.doFilter(SeamFilter.java:49)
  | 	at org.jboss.seam.web.MultipartFilter.doFilter(MultipartFilter.java:79)
  | 	at org.jboss.seam.web.SeamFilter$FilterChainImpl.doFilter(SeamFilter.java:49)
  | 	at org.jboss.seam.web.SeamFilter.doFilter(SeamFilter.java:84)
  | 	at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:202)
  | 	at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:173)
  | 	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:213)
  | 	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:178)
  | 	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:126)
  | 	at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:105)
  | 	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:107)
  | 	at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:148)
  | 	at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:869)
  | 	at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11BaseProtocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.processConnection(Http11BaseProtocol.java:664)
  | 	at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.PoolTcpEndpoint.processSocket(PoolTcpEndpoint.java:527)
  | 	at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.LeaderFollowerWorkerThread.runIt(LeaderFollowerWorkerThread.java:80)
  | 	at org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadPool.java:684)
  | 	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:595)
  | Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
  | 	at org.jboss.seam.ui.facelet.MethodExpressionHelper.findParamTypes(MethodExpressionHelper.java:146)
  | 	at org.jboss.seam.ui.facelet.MethodExpressionHelper.invokeTheExpression(MethodExpressionHelper.java:98)
  | 	at org.jboss.seam.ui.facelet.ParamMethodExpression.invoke(ParamMethodExpression.java:62)
  | 	at com.sun.facelets.el.TagMethodExpression.invoke(TagMethodExpression.java:68)
  | 	at com.sun.facelets.el.LegacyMethodBinding.invoke(LegacyMethodBinding.java:69)
  | 	at org.apache.myfaces.application.ActionListenerImpl.processAction(ActionListenerImpl.java:61)
  | 	... 34 more

- it was supposed to execute auditLog.sort('id'), but apparently failed to evaluate the #{bean} expression, even though it was passed to the template via bean="#{auditLog}"

Am I misunderstanding the limits for EL enhancements, maybe? Is it usable in this context at all?

Thanks,

Alex

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