In my JSF pagecode, I have something similar to the following:
<h:selectOneRadio value="#{pagecode.attending}" required="true" id="attendingRadio" binding="#{attendingRadio}">
<f:selectItem itemValue="Y" itemLabel="Yes"/>
<f:selectItem itemValue="N" itemLabel="No"/>
<f:ajax event="click" render="attendingDetails" execute="attendingRadio"/>
</h:selectOneRadio>
<h:panelGroup id="attendingDetails">
<h:panelGroup rendered="#{pagecode.showForm(attendingRadio.value)}">
...
</h:panelGroup>
</h:panelGroup>
In my pagecode backing bean, I have something like the following:
public class Pagecode {
protected Character attending;
public Character getAttending() {
return attending;
}
public void setAttending(Character attending) {
this.attending=attending;
}
public boolean showForm(Character c) {
if (c==null) {
return false;
}
(other stuff)...
}
}
The behavior I expect is:
- The page loads. The radio button is not defined to an initial value, so neither Yes nor No is selected. However, since required="true", the user will get a validation error if they leave it blank (and they do).
- The first time the page loads, #{pagecode.showForm(attendingRadio.value)} is called, I would expect that a null object would be passed, and showForm would return false.
After doing some troubleshooting, I determined that what is actually happening is that instead of null object being passed, i.e. equivalently showForm(null)
, I am instead getting the equivalent of showForm(new Character('\u0000'))
; it passing the Unicode character for null instead.
Is there a way to make JSF pass the Java null object instead of a null character when my h:selectOneRadio does not have a value selected? I am using Apache MyFaces JSF 2.0 on WebSphere Portal 8.0.
As a side note, I did try to add the following to my web.xml, and it unfortunately did not help:
<context-param>
<param-name>javax.faces.INTERPRET_EMPTY_STRING_SUBMITTED_VALUES_AS_NULL</param-name>
<param-value>true</param-value>
</context-param>