Dynamic PPR and Partial Triggers

Question

Hi,
I would like to know whether adding a UIComponent for dynamic re-rendering via ADFFacesContext.addPartialTarget() also triggers re-rendering of components having it as a partialTtigger. Currently, I am seeing that such somponents are not dynamically re-rendered. For example:
<af:inputText id="testInputText" value="#{testBean.inputTextValue}" binding="#{testBean.inputText}" autoSubmit="true" clientComponent="true"/>
<af:outputText value="#{testBean.inputTextValue}" partialTriggers="testInputText" clientComponent="true"/>While autosubmission triggers the partial update of the outputText, if I dynamically partial update the inputText via some other action, the outputText does not get re-rendered. Is this a bug or is this the intended working? How do I partially update some other component which already listens on the other component for partial updates without manually specifying it everywhere in the code. I ask this because it feels wrong to have to declare the listening in XHTML and then keep on re-declaring it everywhere in the java code.
Thank you.
Vikram

Answer 1

Hi,
1. you can do this from Java easily. So instead of using the declarative efresh you can use
AdffacesContext.getCurrentInstance().addPartialTarget(outputText);
then to notify dependent listeners on the output text you use
AdffacesContext.getCurrentInstance().partialUpdateNotify(outputText);
Note that the risk of the framework parsing and refreshing all dependencies implicitly would likely cause loops of refreshes that your page never gets out of. So best is to keep this under the control of the developer.
2. To do the same declaratively: If you want to have dependent components declaratively refreshed (e.g. the output text component when the input text component is PPRed, then instead of refreshing the input text component in response to a PPR event, refresh the surrounding container e.g. panelFormLayout or panelGroup.
Frank