BUG!!! in dialog framework

Question

Dialog within a dialog return listener on the originating page not triggered after opening the second dialog window more that 4 times. Return listener on the originating page is triggered if the second dialog window is opened less than 4 times... try it out!!!
Scenario:
1. page 1 calls a dialog using:
public String popUp(){
return "dialog:page2";
code of command button on page 1:
<af:commandButton text="..." action="#{backing_bean.popUp}"
returnListener="#{backing_bean.handleReturn}"
useWindow="true" id="popUp" partialSubmit="true"
windowHeight="300" windowWidth="500"
launchListener="#{backing_bean.launchListener}"
binding="#{backing_bean.button1}">
</af:commandButton>
2. page2: contains multiple command buttons which also calls another dialog page 3
code of command button on page 2:
<af:commandButton action="#{backing_bean2.popUp}"
launchListener="#{backing_bean2.handleLaunch}"
returnListener="#{backing_bean2.handleReturn}"
text="..." partialSubmit="true" useWindow="true"
windowHeight="400" windowWidth="500"
immediate="false" id="segBtn1">
<af:setActionListener from="#{bindings.text1.inputValue}"
to="#{processScope.text1}"/>
<af:setActionListener from="#{\'1\'}"
to="#{processScope.inputNum}"/>
</af:commandButton>
public String popUp(){
return "dialog:page3";
3. page 3 basically is an LOV page (filtered based of parameters set in processScope) which returns a value which populates certain fields in page 2.
to close page 3:
afContext.returnFromDialog(row, null);
I didn't encounter any problem with the return value from page 3 to page 2. But
when I open page 3 more than 4 times (at this time only page 1 and page 2 are open), when I close page 2 using:
afContext.returnFromDialog(row, null);
The returnListener set in the command button in page 1 is not triggered. (No error is returned)
code in backingBean1:
public void handleReturn(ReturnEvent returnEvent) {
System.out.println("handleReturn Triggered");
However the thing that is really odd is that when I open page3 less than 5 times, the returnListener on page1 is being called upon calling the returnFromDialog(...) from page2. Can somebody explain to me why the returnListener is not being triggered after calling page 3 more than 4 times?
Message was edited by:
user514269

Answer 1

I finally accepted that the eratic behavior of the return listener is definitely a bug!
so I decided to find a work-around insted.
THE WORK-AROUND:
1. I threw away the returnHandler of the originating page.
2. All the manipulation for the view object of the originating page I placed in the return action of the 1st pop-up window.
3. I removed the afContext.returnFromDialog(obj, null) from the actionMethod of the 1st dialog. Then set a processScope variable to true afContext.getProcessScope().put("closeWindow",true);
4. I remove the afContext.returnFromDialog(row, null) so that this dialog window will just reload instead of closing.
5. I placed this pc of code in the header of my dialog page
<afh:script text='var closeWindow="#{processScope.closeWindow}"' />
function closeAndReloadParentWindow(closeWindow){   
if(closeWindow){
window.parent.opener.location.reload();
self.parent.close();
and in the body tag I placed this onload function:
<afh:body onload="closeAndReloadParentWindow(closeWindow);">
This will reload the parent/originating page and close the dialog.