Populating an inputtext after immediate action

Question

I'm having a problem trying to implement this functionality:
I have one page on which I have a data table with (for example) cars. Underneath I have a panel grid with outputtext (labels) and inputtext fields which allow the user enter all the details necessary to add a new car.
But what I'm trying to do is have the data table entries (car names) be links, which when clicked will populate all of the inputtext fields with the values of the car details, and then allow the user to edit the details.
How I've tried to do this, is to value bind the inputtext values to a car object that is in my backing bean class. The car links are set to immediate (so that the empty inputtext fields won't validate), and the method that is called sets the car object which the fields are value bound to, to populate based on the row data of the selected row in the data table (the car).
Debugging shows that the car object IS populated correctly with all the values, but when the page re-renders, all of the inputtext fields are blank, they are not populated with the values of the car object they are bound to.
Does someone know what I'm missing, or how this is supposed to be done?
Thanks.
Edit: I should specify that I'm using JSF 2.0
Edited by: a-rex on Feb 25, 2010 6:25 AM

Answer 1

I hope this code will solve your problem
import java.io.*;
import java.util.*;
public class ReadDVDFile
    String MName;
     String Gener;
     String Actor;
     ReadDVDFile(String m, String g, String a){
          MName = m;
           Gener = g;
           Actor = a;
     public static void main(String[] args){
            ArrayList al = new ArrayList();
     try{
        File dvd = new File("e:\\DVDInfo.txt");
        BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(dvd));
        String s;
        while((s = br.readLine()) != null){
        String[] result = s.split("/");
           al.add(new ReadDVDFile(result[0],result[1],result[2]));
          }  // end of while
     catch(Exception e){
           System.out.println(e);
       Iterator i = al.iterator();
       int j = 1;
        System.out.println("printing contents of ArrayList");
        while(i.hasNext()){
             ReadDVDFile rd = (ReadDVDFile) i.next();
          System.out.println(j + " " + rd.MName + ";" + rd.Gener + ";" + rd.Actor );
           j++;
}