Bug in JSF 2?

Question

I'm creating a fairly simple application using Weld and JSF2, running on Glassfish v3. However I have run into a problem which I can't get my head around. On one page I have a search field, which the result populates a h:selectOneMenu. From the h:selectOneMenu it should then be possible to select one of the results. This is were I get an error (or lack thereof, so to speak). The second request never reaches my RequestScoped bean, which I find odd.
I have created a very simple example to illustrate. The behavior I would expect, is the search field to be populated in the h:selectOneMenu, and then the value selected here shown in the bottom line.
If I change the bean to return a populated list for #{imTheBean.searchResult} on the first render, I'm able to submit just fine. Which is the behavior I was expecting from my example, but doesn't seem to work because I'm dynamically populating the searchResult..
<h:messages /> outputs: "searchform:searchResult: Validation Error: Value is not valid". Nothing shows in the glassfish log..
Am I doing something wrong, or is this a bug somewhere?
JSF page:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<ui:composition xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
                xmlns:ui="http://java.sun.com/jsf/facelets"
                xmlns:f="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core"
                xmlns:h="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html">
    <h:messages/>
    <h:form id="searchform" styleClass="as_form">
        <h:inputText id="search" value="#{imTheBean.searchString}"/>
        <h:commandButton id="searchbutton" value="Search" action="#{imTheBean.doSearch}"/>
        <br/>
        <br/>
        <h:selectOneMenu id="searchResult" value="#{imTheBean.selectResult}">
            <f:selectItems value="#{imTheBean.searchResult}"/>
        </h:selectOneMenu>
        <h:commandButton id="selectButton" value="Select" action="#{imTheBean.doSelectResult}"/>
    </h:form>
    <br/>
    <br/>
    You selected #{imTheBean.selectedResult}
</ui:composition>Bean:
import java.io.Serializable;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;
import javax.enterprise.context.RequestScoped;
import javax.inject.Named;
* ImTheBean.
@RequestScoped
@Named
public class ImTheBean implements Serializable {
    private static final long serialVersionUID = -6412703392546135760L;
    private String searchString;
    private List<String> searchResult;
    private String selectResult;
    private String selectedResult;
    public void doSearch() {
        searchResult = new ArrayList<String>();
        searchResult.add(searchString);
    public void doSelectResult() {
        selectedResult = selectResult;
    public String getSearchString() {
        return searchString;
    public void setSearchString(String searchString) {
        this.searchString = searchString;
    public List<String> getSearchResult() {
        return searchResult;
    public void setSearchResult(List<String> searchResult) {
        this.searchResult = searchResult;
    public String getSelectedResult() {
        return selectedResult;
    public void setSelectedResult(String selectedResult) {
        this.selectedResult = selectedResult;
    public String getSelectResult() {
        return selectResult;
    public void setSelectResult(String selectResult) {
        this.selectResult = selectResult;
}

Answer 1

This is a vague error that has existed for a long time, also in JSF 1.x. If you search on that specific error in google you'll get many cries for help, with solutions.
Among other possibilities, it can happen when the list you use to fill the oneSelectMenu has different values on the postback; if the value that was selected in the menu does not exist in the backing list on the post back, you'll get this error.
Also check BalusC's reply in this thread:
[http://forums.sun.com/thread.jspa?forumID=427&threadID=5305443|http://forums.sun.com/thread.jspa?forumID=427&threadID=5305443]