How to refresh View bind variables or is this a bug in Entity Validation?

Question

Maybe I am missing something. Here is the scenario:
1. I got a create/edit form with a field (*tfA*) that is a af:selectInputText that launches a search form pop up.
2. The form (which is tied to an Entity ADF object) has validations -both attribute specific and global (for lack of better term..) set up in the Entity Object Editor wizard.
3. I noticed that when a global validation fails, when i launch the search form from tfA, it ignores whatever search criteria I enter (ie it retrieves all rows)
Otherwise, the pop up search form works perfectly. I am wondering if I need to reset the bindVariable values somewhere or if it has something to do with a refreshCondition. What confuses me though is that it works just fine if the global (ADF Entity) validations don't fail.
The pop up search form uses the default ExecuteWithParams action listener that calls a view with bindvariables. My JDev version is 10.1.3.4
Any help is appreciated. Thank you.

Answer 1

The issue turns out to be that the Global Entity Validation continues to fire even after you click on the find button on your selectInputText component. The Entity validation is interrupting the call to the View Object in my pop up search window because somehow clicking search on the pop up is submitting the originating form.
I am still not sure if this is a bug that needs to be addressed or I was doing something odd but the solution is the following:
in your *<af:selectInputText />,* add the following: *actionListener="#{bindings.Rollback.execute}"*
This will prevent the validation from firing because it thinks that you are trying to submit the form when all you're doing is actually launching a search pop up.
Hope that helps.
Edited by: rrey on Aug 3, 2009 3:58 PM