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Reputation: 1388

@ManagedProperty null after @PostConstruct in JSF 2.2

My specs:

Please, note that I have researched this topic and found several related posts.

e.g.

@ManagedProperty + @PostConstruct + init() = Nullpointer

@ManagedProperty injected AFTER @PostConstruct

But neither of the proposed solutions worked for me or applied to my situation. I don't mix CDI and/or JSF and/or Spring. It's JSF 2.2 annotations only.

I inject @ManagedProperty("#{country}") Country country; to my ChangeCountrySystemEventListener but the value of the @ManagedProperty country is null. I don't really see where the issue is. The Country constructor does get invoked.

Any tips where the issues is?

Here's my full code:

index.xhtml

    <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" 
        "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

    <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
        xmlns:ui="http://xmlns.jcp.org/jsf/facelets"
        xmlns:h="http://xmlns.jcp.org/jsf/html"
        xmlns:f="http://xmlns.jcp.org/jsf/core">
    <h:head>
        <title>Title</title>
    </h:head>
    <h:body>

        <h3><h:outputText value="#{country.name}" /> </h3>
        <h:form>

            <h:commandButton
                id="changeCountryNameBtn"
                value="Change"
                action="result"
                actionListener="#{appBean.changeCountryName}"
             />

        </h:form>
    </h:body>
    </html>

AppBean.java 

    package com.test.beans;

    import javax.faces.application.Application;
    import javax.faces.bean.ManagedBean;
    import javax.faces.bean.SessionScoped;
    import javax.faces.context.FacesContext;
    import javax.faces.event.ActionEvent;

    @ManagedBean
    @SessionScoped
    public class AppBean {

        public void changeCountryName(ActionEvent ev) {

            FacesContext context = FacesContext.getCurrentInstance();
            Application app = context.getApplication();
            app.publishEvent(context, ChangeCountrySystemEvent.class, ev.getSource());
            System.out.println(">>>> AppBean.publishEvent(ChangeCountrySystemEvent) fired... " + ev.getSource());

        }

    }

ChangeCountrySystemEvent.java 

    package com.test.beans;
    import javax.faces.event.SystemEvent;

    public class ChangeCountrySystemEvent extends SystemEvent {

        private static final long serialVersionUID = -1587717461942271611L;

        public ChangeCountrySystemEvent(Object source) {
            super(source);
            System.out.println(">>>> ChangeCountrySystemEvent.class :: constructor invoked!");
        }

    }

ChangeCountrySystemEventListener.java

    package com.test.beans;

    import javax.faces.bean.ManagedProperty;
    import javax.faces.context.FacesContext;
    import javax.faces.event.SystemEvent;
    import javax.faces.event.SystemEventListener;

    public class ChangeCountrySystemEventListener implements SystemEventListener {

        @ManagedProperty("#{country}")
        Country country;

        // getters and setters
        public Country getCountry() {
            return country;
        }

        public void setCountry(Country country) {
            this.country = country;
        }

        public ChangeCountrySystemEventListener(FacesContext fc) {
            super();
            System.out.println(">>>> ChangeCountrySystemEventListener.class :: Listener constructor invoked!!!");
        }

        @Override
        public void processEvent(SystemEvent se) {

            if (country != null) {
                country.setName("Sweden");
                System.out.println(">>>> ChangeCountrySystemEventListener.class :: SYSTEM EVENT PROCESSED... <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< ");
            } else if (country == null) {
                System.out.println(">>>> ChangeCountrySystemEventListener.class :: processEvent() > country managed property is EMPTY !!!!");
            }
        }

        @Override
        public boolean isListenerForSource(Object source) {
            return true; // needs to be set to true, otherwise "processEvent" won't be called...
        }

    }

Country.java

    package com.test.beans;

    import javax.annotation.PostConstruct;
    import javax.faces.application.Application;
    import javax.faces.bean.ManagedBean;
    import javax.faces.bean.SessionScoped;
    import javax.faces.context.FacesContext;

    @ManagedBean(name = "country", eager = true)
    @SessionScoped
    public class Country {

        private String name = "Norway";

        public Country() {
            System.out.println(">>>> Country constructor called...");
        }

        public String getName() {
            return name;
        }

        public void setName(String name) {
            this.name = name;
        }

        @PostConstruct
        public void init() {
            FacesContext fc = FacesContext.getCurrentInstance();
            Application app = fc.getApplication();
            app.subscribeToEvent(ChangeCountrySystemEvent.class, new ChangeCountrySystemEventListener(fc));
            System.out.println(">>>> Country.class :: app.subscribeToEvent() called... ");
        }
    }

Console output: 

2017-04-02T21:49:51.392-0300|Info: JSF_TestProject was successfully deployed in 579 milliseconds.
2017-04-02T21:49:52.251-0300|Info: >>>> Country constructor called...
2017-04-02T21:49:52.277-0300|Info: >>>> ChangeCountrySystemEventListener.class :: Listener constructor invoked!!!
2017-04-02T21:49:52.277-0300|Info: >>>> Country.class :: app.subscribeToEvent() called...
2017-04-02T21:50:16.572-0300|Info: >>>> ChangeCountrySystemEvent.class :: constructor invoked!
2017-04-02T21:50:16.572-0300|Info: >>>> ChangeCountrySystemEventListener.class :: processEvent() > country managed property is EMPTY !!!!
2017-04-02T21:50:16.572-0300|Info: >>>> AppBean.publishEvent(ChangeCountrySystemEvent) fired... javax.faces.component.html.HtmlCommandButton@424c250c

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1350

Answers (1)

OTM
OTM

Reputation: 656

The ManagedProperty can be used on a field of a class annotated with ManagedBean to inject a value into this property.

If this annotation is present on a class that does not have the ManagedBean annotation, the implementation must take no action on this annotation.

Please see http://docs.oracle.com/javaee/6/api/javax/faces/bean/ManagedProperty.html

Since the class ChangeCountrySystemEventListener is not annotated with ManagedBean, no action is taken on the ManagedProperty field country and its null.

Upvotes: 1

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