ADFPhaseListener prepareRender and component binding problem

Question

I´m Using ADF Faces and using the ADFPhaseListener. My BackingBean extends from the PageController class
and so can use prepareModel(LifecycleContext context) or prepareRender(LifecycleContext context). This works fine so far. The
event handler methods are called as expected (in my example prepareRender). But I have one question.
I´m using Component binding in my JSF-Page:
<af:inputText binding="#{backing_untitled1.inputText1}" id="inputText1">
Code snippet from my ControllerClass
public class Untitled1 extends PageController{
CoreInputText inputText1;
public void setInputText1(CoreInputText inputText1) {   
System.out.println("setInputText1");
this.inputText1 = inputText1;
public void prepareRender(LifecycleContext context) {
super.prepareRender(context);
System.out.println("inside prepareRender");
I´ve written a second PhaseListener that just print´s out the JSF lifecycle phase numbers for better tracing.
The first time I call my JSF-Page the following output is generated:
07/01/03 08:32:38 Before Phase: 1 Source:com.sun.faces.lifecycle.LifecycleImpl@163
07/01/03 08:32:38 After Phase: 1
07/01/03 08:32:38 inside prepareRender
07/01/03 08:32:38 Before Phase: 6 Source:com.sun.faces.lifecycle.LifecycleImpl@163
07/01/03 08:32:39 setInputText1
07/01/03 08:32:40 After Phase: 6
I can see that the prepareRender is called before phase 6. The component binding is done in phase 6. What I would like to
do is access the component binding in my prepareRender method. But this is not possible as it is null before phase 6.
Is there a way to create event handling code after the component binding has taken place?
When I do a postback (second call to the same JSF page) this thing changes
07/01/03 08:37:23 Before Phase: 1 Source:com.sun.faces.lifecycle.LifecycleImpl@163
07/01/03 08:37:24 setInputText1
07/01/03 08:37:24 After Phase: 1
07/01/03 08:37:24 Before Phase: 2 Source:com.sun.faces.lifecycle.LifecycleImpl@163
07/01/03 08:37:24 After Phase: 2
07/01/03 08:37:24 Before Phase: 3 Source:com.sun.faces.lifecycle.LifecycleImpl@163
07/01/03 08:37:24 After Phase: 3
07/01/03 08:37:24 Before Phase: 4 Source:com.sun.faces.lifecycle.LifecycleImpl@163
07/01/03 08:37:24 After Phase: 4
07/01/03 08:37:24 Before Phase: 5 Source:com.sun.faces.lifecycle.LifecycleImpl@163
07/01/03 08:37:24 After Phase: 5
07/01/03 08:37:24 inside prepareRender
07/01/03 08:37:24 Before Phase: 6 Source:com.sun.faces.lifecycle.LifecycleImpl@163
07/01/03 08:37:24 After Phase: 6
Here in my prepareRender method I could access the component binding as it has been initialized in phase 1.
Thanks in advance
Rainer

Answer 1

hi, you can use this way to initially a value:
public void setInputText1(CoreInputText inputText1) {
this.inputText1 = inputText1;
if( !AdfFacesContext.getCurrentInstance().isPostback() ){
this.inputText1.setValue("somevalue");
in the RenderModel phase is not possible set value to a component because this one is null, as you have said.. by this way you can do this too:
public void setInputText1(CoreInputText inputText1) {
this.inputText1 = inputText1;
if( !AdfFacesContext.getCurrentInstance().isPostback() ){
DCIteratorBinding ib = (DCIteratorBinding)Utilidades.resolveExpression("#{bindings.BanksView1Iterator}");
RowIterator iter = ib.getRowSetIterator();
Row row = iter.first();
if (row != null){
this.inputText1.setValue(row.getAttribute(BanksViewRowImpl.COD));}
}