I ran in some challenges while trying to create a test case for this issue.

1. When I made an inputText fail validation, it threw an exception about not finding some resource bundle, which I'd ran into before in ICE-3896. I dug into that, seeing if my browser locale was correct, and if I needed to include the locale configuration in my faces-config.xml, but then I found out it was my fault, I'd built my own JSF jars that somehow didn't include the required Messages.properties files.

2. I tried using List<String> as my data models for my test case, which didn't seem to work properly. I remembered running into this in the past, and replaced them with List<ClassWithStringField>, and changed the facelets page to use a field off of the List element instead of the List element directly, and then I started getting the expected behaviour.

3. For my test case, I made two separate forms, each with their own UISeries with required inputText child. I tried covering all of the possible input value combinations, but that wasn't useful, since the necessary test involved multiples interactions in a specific sequence, and not a single step with a given set of inputs.

I inspected the JSF RI code that I have already downloaded, and found that 1.2_04 and 1.2_05 do the slow FacesMessage approach, and 1.2_10, 1.2_11, 1.2_12 do the faster maxSeverity approach.

When compiling test scenarios, I found a case where ICEfaces failed to do what I consider the correct behaviour. Further investigation showed it to not be a flaw with the FacesMessage or MaximumSeverity approaches, but rather something intrinsic to how UIForm, UIData and UIInput/EditableValueHolder interact together. I made a stock JSF example app demonstrating this, and filed a bug with the Sun RI:

Data loss with multiple forms
https://javaserverfaces.dev.java.net/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=1236

TRUNK
Subversion 19144
icefaces\component\src\com\icesoft\faces\component\panelseries\UISeries.java

GLIMMER
Subversion 19145
compat\components\src\main\java\com\icesoft\faces\component\panelseries\UISeries.java

The test involves having two forms, a top form and a bottom form, each with their own panelSeries that contains an inputText with required validation. The panelSeries datamodel is just 2 strings, which means that each form will show an inputText on the left and on the right.

1. Type "xx" into all 4 inputTexts
2. Press both submit buttons. The order doesn't matter
3. Clear the left inputText in each of the two forms, and type "yy" into the right inputText in each form
4. Press the bottom submit button. As expected, what you types remains, and the bottom left inputText gets a FacesMessage for requiring input.
5. Press the top submit button.
OLD/WRONG: With the old code, the top inputText components retain their typed in values, but the bottom inputText components lose their values, and show the old bean values of "xx". The top left inputText gets a FacesMessage for requiring input, as one would expect
NEW/CORRECT: With the new code, all of the inputText components retain their typed in values, and the empty inputTexts get required FacesMessages.

<ice:form>
<ice:panelSeries value="#

" var="topEntry" id="topLst">
<ice:inputText value="#

" id="topIn" required="true"/>
</ice:panelSeries>
<br/>
<ice:commandButton value="Submit top form only"/>
<br/>
<ice:messages/>
</ice:form>
<ice:form>
<ice:panelSeries value="#

" var="bottomEntry" id="bottomLst">
<ice:inputText value="#

" id="bottomIn" required="true"/>
</ice:panelSeries>
<br/>
<ice:commandButton value="Submit bottom form only"/>
<br/>
<ice:messages/>
</ice:form>

import java.util.List;
import java.util.ArrayList;

public class Bean {
private List topList;
private List bottomList;

public Bean ()

public List getTopList()

public void setTopList(List top)

public List getBottomList()

public void setBottomList(List bottom)

public static class ItemHolder {
private String held;

public ItemHolder(String h)

}
}

Mark Collette,

Can you please look at my forum post about an issue with the fix applied http://www.icefaces.org/JForum/posts/list/16345.page

Thanks.

Hi Mark,

Thanks for taking time to see my forum post. I will also check your solution.