Validating components even with autosubmit and immediate

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Greetings:
I am working in a application using ADF 11g. In my page, I have a <af:selectOneRadio> with two options (selectItem). These selectItem's have both immediate and autoSubmit attributes equal to true. Next, there is a <af:panelGroupLayout> which partialTriggers attribute points to prior selectOneRadio. Inside panelGroupLayout, there are some <af:inputText>'s. All of them are required. Depending of selectOneRadio value, some inputs will have their label changed, while others will be (or not) renderized. After this panelGroupLayout, I have a <af:commandButton>, where there will be the real submission.
What I was expecting was, when I changed the select value, a partial submission would be done, without validation, and changed the labels or rederization of components inside panelGroupLayout. However, the components are being validated. The error messages are shown and the components chagings are not happening.
Googling for some solution (https://www.google.com.br/search?q=adf+not+validate+at+partial+submit) , I found some suggestions that either did not work or thought too complicated (e.g. Use a subform and configure the page definition XML (http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/developer-tools/adf/learnmore/40-ppr-subform-169182.pdf)). I think that there is a simpler solution, but I could not found it.
Below my JSF code:
   <af:form id="formCadastroUsuarioLicitacoes" usesUpload="true">
       <af:panelGroupLayout halign="end" id="pnGL1">
            <af:selectOneRadio id="radioType" value="#{viewScope.myManagedBean.type}" immediate="true" required="true"
                                    styleClass="radioType" autoSubmit="true">
               <f:selectItem itemLabel="Type A" itemValue="a" id="itemA"/>
               <f:selectItem itemLabel="Type B" itemValue="b" id="itemB"/>
            </af:selectOneRadio>
               <af:panelGroupLayout id="panelGroupForm" partialTriggers="radioType" styleClass="AFStretchWidth">
                 <af:inputText id="txfDoc" value="#{viewScope.myManagedBean.document}"
                                   label="#{(viewScope.myManagedBean.type == 'b')? 'Doc B': 'Doc A'}" required="true"
                                   />
                 <af:inputText id="txfcompany" value="#{viewScope.myManagedBean.company}" label="company"
                                   rendered="#{(viewScope.myManagedBean.type == 'b')}" required="true" />
                 <af:inputText id="txfName" value="#{viewScope.myManagedBean.name}"
                                   label="#{(viewScope.myManagedBean.type == 'b')? 'Your Name': 'Name'}" required="true" />
                 <af:inputText id="txfEmail" value="#{viewScope.myManagedBean.email}" label="Email" required="true" />
                 <af:inputText id="txfEmailConfirm" value="#{viewScope.myManagedBean.emailConfirm}" label="Confirm your Email"
                                   required="true" />
                 <af:inputText id="txfphine" value="#{viewScope.myManagedBean.phine}" label="phine"
                                   rendered="#{(viewScope.myManagedBean.type == 'b')}" required="true" />
                 <af:inputText id="txfFax" value="#{viewScope.myManagedBean.fax}" label="Fax"
                                   rendered="#{(viewScope.myManagedBean.type == 'b')}" required="true" />
               </af:panelGroupLayout>
            <af:commandButton text="Submit" id="btnsubmit" action="#{viewScope.myManagedBean.save}"/>
       </af:panelGroupLayout>
  </af:form>Thanks,
Rafael Afonso
Edited by: 993323 on 04/04/2013 13:50

Answer 1

Hey,
I hate to be the one to link Oracle docs. Have you read this part though? http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E23549_01/web.1111/b31973/af_lifecycle.htm#CIAIDFGC
I also know that one of the Oracle Ace people wrote a blog on this. I think it was Timo, but I couldn't track it down. It has been awhile since I read it.
Anyhow, my suggestion would be to look into the lifecycle methods that get skipped when the immediate value is set and see if that makes your problem any clearer to you.
I am sorry I couldn't be of more help, I have only looked a little bit into field validations and the immediate field.
Best of luck,
Dustin