ActionEventListeners are not getting called for buttons within facets

Question

Hi,
I see some wiered issue with ADF Facet Switcher. I have the following code in a JSF page fragment (.jsff) and it has got a mixture of some client side HTML elements like p, div , h2 etc for styling ..along with these ADF components.
<af:switcher facetName="#{backingBeanScope.NavigationBean.navigationNodeType}" id="facettype" rendered="true" defaultFacet="orphan">
<f:facet name="node">
<af:panelGroupLayout layout="vertical" id="pgnode" visible="true">
<af:forEach items="#{backingBeanScope.NavigationBean.currentNode.children}"
var="childNode">
<af:commandLink text="#{childNode.title}"
inlineStyle="font-weight:#{backingBeanScope.NavigationBean.currentNode.title eq childNode.title ? 'bold' : 'normal'};"
action="pprnav"
actionListener="#{backingBeanScope.NavigationBean.handleNavigation}"
partialSubmit="true"
visible="true"
id="cmdlinknode">
<af:setActionListener from="#{childNode}"
to="#{backingBeanScope.NavigationBean.currentNode}"/>
<f:attribute name="node"
value="#{backingBeanScope.NavigationBean.currentNode}"/>
</af:commandLink>
</af:forEach>
</af:panelGroupLayout>
</f:facet>
<f:facet name="leaf">
<af:panelGroupLayout layout="vertical" id="pgleaf" visible="true">
<af:forEach items="#{backingBeanScope.NavigationBean.parentNode.children}"
var="childNode">
<af:commandLink text="#{childNode.title}"
inlineStyle="font-weight:#{backingBeanScope.NavigationBean.currentNode.title eq childNode.title ? 'bold' : 'normal'};"
action="pprnav"
actionListener="#{backingBeanScope.NavigationBean.handleNavigation}"
id="cmdlinkleaf" visible="true"
partialSubmit="true">
<af:setActionListener from="#{childNode}"
to="#{backingBeanScope.NavigationBean.currentNode}"/>
<f:attribute name="node"
value="#{backingBeanScope.NavigationBean.currentNode}"/>
</af:commandLink>
</af:forEach>
</af:panelGroupLayout>
</f:facet>
<f:facet name="orphan">
<af:panelGroupLayout layout="vertical" id="pgorphan" visible="true">
<af:goLink destination="" text="Back to previous page" id="orphanlink"></af:goLink>
</af:panelGroupLayout>
</f:facet>
</af:switcher>
But interstingly the command link or button inside these switcher or facets doesnot invoke any actionlisteners or action ....Tried many things and wasted much time to actually figure out the issue is only for the command links or buttons placed in the switcher...If i place something after the switcher...
<af:commandLink text="#{'clickme'}"
inlineStyle="bold"
action="pprnav"
actionListener="#{backingBeanScope.NavigationBean.handleNavigation}"
id="cmdlinktest" visible="true"
partialSubmit="true">
<f:attribute name="node"
value="#{backingBeanScope.NavigationBean.currentNode}"/>
</af:commandLink>
Then the action listeners or actions are getting invoked properly....Can you please tell what is wrong with the above snippet? I am using Jdeveloper 11.1.1.4 tech stack.
Regards
Prasath.C
Edited by: Prasath C on 05-Aug-2011 03:08
Edited by: Prasath C on 05-Aug-2011 03:09
Edited by: Prasath C on 05-Aug-2011 03:12

Answer 1

perhaps the XML parser doesn't like the format of your output. Is it formatted XML? I would output unformatted XML (without newlines, tabs and spaces between elements, etc.) and try again.
Perhaps the character encoding used isn't liked by the XML parser. Are you providing any character encoding to begin with? (UTF-8 for example)
It is hard to tell what could be wrong from such an ambiguous error message. The best thing you can do is try a flash forum, or poke around with the stuff until something works. You could also try putting some logging in the servlet to at least know that it is being called by the flash application.