[jbossseam-issues] [JBoss JIRA] Commented: (JBSEAM-3273) @Startup + @Create on session-scoped bean broken in Seam 2.1

[Shane Bryzak (JIRA)]

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Shane Bryzak commented on JBSEAM-3273:
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Ok I've worked out why this is happening.  Dan recently added a new filter (IdentityFilter) that provides an integration point between servlet security and Seam security.  This filter inadvertently creates a new session, before the faces request even is even handled and therefore the FacesContext is not available.  You can disable this filter by adding the following line to your components.xml:

<web:identity-filter disabled="true"/>

I would go as far to say that Seam makes no guarantee as to the availability of FacesContext or the HttpServletRequest objects during @Startup, however at this stage I can't recommend a reasonable alternative.  I do recommend though that you create a new feature request in JIRA for this (and link it to this issue).

> @Startup + @Create on session-scoped bean broken in Seam 2.1
> ------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: JBSEAM-3273
>                 URL: https://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/JBSEAM-3273
>             Project: Seam
>          Issue Type: Bug
>         Environment: clean Tomcat 6.0.16, Seam 2.1 build 281
>            Reporter: Przemyslaw Jaskierski
>            Assignee: Shane Bryzak
>            Priority: Critical
>             Fix For: 2.1.0.CR1
>
>         Attachments: issueDemo.war, src.zip
>
>
> In 1.x, 2.x and Seam 2.1 build from ~march 2008 it was possible to access, for example, cookies info or other http request attributes at session creation time. It was extremely useful to fetch f.e. user-specific data from database to create custom view etc, (described f.e. here http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3963032). It is not working anymore. Both FacesContext.getCurrentInstance() and ServletContexts.getInstance().getRequest() now return null within @Create method.
> @Name("sessionStateBacker")
> @Scope(ScopeType.SESSION)
> @Startup
> public class UserStateBacker
>     implements Serializable
> {
>     @Create
>     public void sessionCreated()
>     {
> 	FacesContext facesContext =  FacesContext.getCurrentInstance();
> 	if (facesContext == null) {
> 	    System.out.println("FacesContext is null in 2.1.0 but worked fine in 2.0.3");	
> 	}
>         //facesContext.getExternalContext().getRequestCookieMap();
>     }
> }

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