ADF MenuModel: Dynamic changes to shown property

Question

Hi all,
I have been doing some testing, and not sure if this is a bug or I am doing something wrong. To set the stage, I've got a menu defined via managed beans (using the MenuItem, MenuModelAdapter, MenuTreeModelAdapter from SRDemo). I also have a session-scoped userInfo bean that tracks the usual stuff. I have exposed some boolean properties from this userInfo bean that are used in faces-config.xml to indicate whether the menu item should be shown or not.
My userInfo bean in the constructor, sets some default stuff, and the menu works correctly. However, if I make changes to the userInfo boolean properties, the menu is not picking up those changes; its as if the shown property is being set once and then not re-evaluated each time. I do not have any af:cache elements on my pages, so it's definitely not that. I know that the userInfo bean's properties are being updated, as I have other elements on the page that make use of it and are updating appropriately
Am I doing something wrong here, or are the managed properties going to be set once at the start and never changed again?
Kind regards,
John

Answer 1

Some snippets:
one of my menu item's
  <managed-bean>
    <managed-bean-name>m_directive_create</managed-bean-name>
    <managed-bean-class>view.menu.MenuItem</managed-bean-class>
    <managed-bean-scope>session</managed-bean-scope>
    <managed-property>
      <property-name>label</property-name>
      <value>Create Directives</value>
    </managed-property>
    <managed-property>
      <property-name>shown</property-name>
      <value>#{userInfo.corporateUser}</value>
    </managed-property>
    <managed-property>
      <property-name>viewId</property-name>
      <value>/directive/ICCreateDirective.jspx</value>
    </managed-property>
    <managed-property>
      <property-name>outcome</property-name>
      <value>ICCreateDirective</value>
    </managed-property>
  </managed-bean>Managed bean:
  <managed-bean>
    <managed-bean-name>userInfo</managed-bean-name>
    <managed-bean-class>view.UserInfo</managed-bean-class>
    <managed-bean-scope>session</managed-bean-scope>
  </managed-bean>In userInfo:
  public UserInfo()
   _corporateUser = true;
  public boolean isCorporateUser()
     return _corporateUser;
  public setCorporateUser(boolean b)
    _corporateUser = b;
  }For testing, I've got a menu switch element on my Page:
           <f:facet name="menuSwitch">
              <af:menuChoice>
                <af:commandMenuItem text="Corporate"
                                    actionListener="#{superBean.corporate}"
                                    selected="#{userInfo.corporateUser}"/>
                <af:commandMenuItem text="Field"
                                    actionListener="#{superBean.field}"
                                    selected="#{userInfo.fieldUser}"/>
              </af:menuChoice>
            </f:facet>My superBean:
  <managed-bean>
    <managed-bean-name>superBean</managed-bean-name>
    <managed-bean-class>view.backing.Super_backing</managed-bean-class>
    <managed-bean-scope>request</managed-bean-scope>
    <managed-property>
      <property-name>userInfo</property-name>
      <value>#{userInfo}</value>
    </managed-property>
  </managed-bean>and finally superBean:
  public void corporate(ActionEvent actionEvent)
    _userInfo.setCorporateUser(true);
  public void field(ActionEvent actionEvent)
    _userInfo.setCorporateUser(false);
  }Everything works, except that the menu (Create Directive in my example) is always shown. If I change it to false in the constructor, it is never shown.
Thanks for the help,
John