MergeEntity not firing

Question

I have been experimenting with 11g ADF and Toplink and have created a simple page that displays the contents of a DB table in an af:table. Everything has been great up until today.
I seem to have an issue with using mergeEntity. persistEntity works as expected (inserting records); however, when I try to update a record with mergEntity everything appears to work, but the row does not get updated.
The table only displays 2 of 5 coulmns; I am updating the bindings of the other three values from the backing bean (the values displayed on screen are not being edited).
I am updating the bindings like so:
JSFUtils.setExpressionValue("#{bindings.inactiveDate.inputValue}", new Date());mergeEntity is being invoked like so:
BindingContainer bindings = getBindings();
OperationBinding operationBinding = bindings.getOperationBinding("mergeEntity");
operationBinding.execute();methodAction for mergeEntity within the pageDef:
<methodAction id="mergeEntity" RequiresUpdateModel="true"
    Action="invokeMethod" MethodName="mergeEntity"
    IsViewObjectMethod="false" DataControl="ODPublicFacadeLocal"
    InstanceName="ODPublicFacadeLocal.dataProvider"
    ReturnName="ODPublicFacadeLocal.methodResults.mergeEntity_ODPublicFacadeLocal_dataProvider_mergeEntity_result">
   <NamedData NDName="entity"
       NDValue="#{bindings.findAllBaseIterator.currentRow.dataProvider}"
       NDType="java.lang.Object"/>
</methodAction>The console logs show the followign when the update methods fires:
client acquired
[EL Finer]: 2010-05-18 15:14:05.221--ClientSession(24977073)--Thread(Thread[[ACTIVE] ExecuteThread: '0' for queue: 'weblogic.kernel.Default (self-tuning)',5,Pooled Threads])--acquire unit of work: 4697150
[EL Finer]: 2010-05-18 15:14:05.221--UnitOfWork(4697150)--Thread(Thread[[ACTIVE] ExecuteThread: '0' for queue: 'weblogic.kernel.Default (self-tuning)',5,Pooled Threads])--TX binding to tx mgr, status=STATUS_ACTIVE
[EL Finest]: 2010-05-18 15:14:05.221--UnitOfWork(4697150)--Thread(Thread[[ACTIVE] ExecuteThread: '0' for queue: 'weblogic.kernel.Default (self-tuning)',5,Pooled Threads])--Execute query ReadObjectQuery(referenceClass=Base )
[EL Finest]: 2010-05-18 15:14:05.221--UnitOfWork(4697150)--Thread(Thread[[ACTIVE] ExecuteThread: '0' for queue: 'weblogic.kernel.Default (self-tuning)',5,Pooled Threads])--Merge clone olvims.dispatch.datamodel.Base@10e4b63
[EL Finer]: 2010-05-18 15:14:05.221--UnitOfWork(4697150)--Thread(Thread[[ACTIVE] ExecuteThread: '0' for queue: 'weblogic.kernel.Default (self-tuning)',5,Pooled Threads])--TX beforeCompletion callback, status=STATUS_ACTIVE
[EL Finer]: 2010-05-18 15:14:05.221--UnitOfWork(4697150)--Thread(Thread[[ACTIVE] ExecuteThread: '0' for queue: 'weblogic.kernel.Default (self-tuning)',5,Pooled Threads])--begin unit of work commit
[EL Finer]: 2010-05-18 15:14:05.221--UnitOfWork(4697150)--Thread(Thread[[ACTIVE] ExecuteThread: '0' for queue: 'weblogic.kernel.Default (self-tuning)',5,Pooled Threads])--TX afterCompletion callback, status=COMMITTED
[EL Finer]: 2010-05-18 15:14:05.221--UnitOfWork(4697150)--Thread(Thread[[ACTIVE] ExecuteThread: '0' for queue: 'weblogic.kernel.Default (self-tuning)',5,Pooled Threads])--end unit of work commit
[EL Finer]: 2010-05-18 15:14:05.221--UnitOfWork(4697150)--Thread(Thread[[ACTIVE] ExecuteThread: '0' for queue: 'weblogic.kernel.Default (self-tuning)',5,Pooled Threads])--release unit of work
[EL Finer]: 2010-05-18 15:14:05.221--ClientSession(24977073)--Thread(Thread[[ACTIVE] ExecuteThread: '0' for queue: 'weblogic.kernel.Default (self-tuning)',5,Pooled Threads])--client releasedAs you can see, the update statement does not happen.
Anyone have an idea as to why?
Thanks.

Answer 1

Hi Pedja, thanks for the assist.
The immediate attribute is set to false on the command button.
Using this syntax has the same outcome as before; no change.
JSFUtils.setExpressionValue("#{bindings.findAllBaseIterator.currentRow.dataProvider.inactiveDate}", new Date());My mergEntity method with in my session facade bean is as follows:
public Object mergeEntity(Object entity) {
    UnitOfWork uow = getSessionFactory().acquireUnitOfWork();
    Object workingCopy = uow.readObject(entity);
    if (workingCopy == null)
        throw new RuntimeException("Could not find entity to update");
    Base myBase = (Base)workingCopy;
    System.out.println("uow class <\"+myBase.getInactiveDate()+\">");
    System.out.println("before deepMergeEntity**************");
    uow.deepMergeClone(entity);
    System.out.println("after deepMergeEntity**************");
    uow.commit();
    return workingCopy;
}I added some printlns to determine if the data was being passed from the backing bean; it is.
[EL Finer]: 2010-05-19 08:56:52.006--ClientSession(729393)--Thread(Thread[[ACTIVE] ExecuteThread: '1' for queue: 'weblogic.kernel.Default (self-tuning)',5,Pooled Threads])--acquire unit of work: 31643867
[EL Finer]: 2010-05-19 08:56:52.022--UnitOfWork(31643867)--Thread(Thread[[ACTIVE] ExecuteThread: '1' for queue: 'weblogic.kernel.Default (self-tuning)',5,Pooled Threads])--TX binding to tx mgr, status=STATUS_ACTIVE
[EL Finest]: 2010-05-19 08:56:52.022--UnitOfWork(31643867)--Thread(Thread[[ACTIVE] ExecuteThread: '1' for queue: 'weblogic.kernel.Default (self-tuning)',5,Pooled Threads])--Execute query ReadObjectQuery(referenceClass=Base )
uow class <Wed May 19 08:56:51 CDT 2010>
before deepMergeEntity**************
[EL Finest]: 2010-05-19 08:56:52.022--UnitOfWork(31643867)--Thread(Thread[[ACTIVE] ExecuteThread: '1' for queue: 'weblogic.kernel.Default (self-tuning)',5,Pooled Threads])--Merge clone olvims.dispatch.datamodel.Base@1efaf4
after deepMergeEntity**************
[EL Finer]: 2010-05-19 08:56:52.022--UnitOfWork(31643867)--Thread(Thread[[ACTIVE] ExecuteThread: '1' for queue: 'weblogic.kernel.Default (self-tuning)',5,Pooled Threads])--TX beforeCompletion callback, status=STATUS_ACTIVE
[EL Finer]: 2010-05-19 08:56:52.022--UnitOfWork(31643867)--Thread(Thread[[ACTIVE] ExecuteThread: '1' for queue: 'weblogic.kernel.Default (self-tuning)',5,Pooled Threads])--begin unit of work commit
[EL Finer]: 2010-05-19 08:56:52.022--UnitOfWork(31643867)--Thread(Thread[[ACTIVE] ExecuteThread: '1' for queue: 'weblogic.kernel.Default (self-tuning)',5,Pooled Threads])--TX afterCompletion callback, status=COMMITTED
[EL Finer]: 2010-05-19 08:56:52.022--UnitOfWork(31643867)--Thread(Thread[[ACTIVE] ExecuteThread: '1' for queue: 'weblogic.kernel.Default (self-tuning)',5,Pooled Threads])--end unit of work commitIt looks as if I will need to create a custom sql method and not use the mergeEntity method. Disappointing.