Reset input fields of a form after successful submit

I have a form which creates a new Employee. My backing bean is @SessionScoped. When I create the first employee, everything went well. However, when I'm about to create the second employee, the form still displays the properties of the first employee in the input fields.

How do I reset them without changing the scope of the bean? The scope is mandatory for other purposes. i use a managed Bean ( controller) where i have "Create employe"

public String createEmploye()

{

    employe = new Employe();

    employe.setId(this.id);
    employe.setNom(this.nom);
    employe.setPrenom(this.prenom);
    employe.setNum_telephone(this.num_telephone);
    employe.setAdresse(this.adresse);
    employe.setNum_poste(this.num_poste);

    employeBean.addEmploye(employe);

    employe.setNom("");

    return "ListEmployes.xhtml?faces-redirect=true";
    // return ("ListEmployes.xhtml");

}

Solution

Recreate the Employee instance after saving it in the DB.

public void save() {
    service.save(employee);
    employee = new Employee(); // <--- Just add this line.
}

Unrelated to the concrete problem, I however strongly recommend to reconsider your bean design. Shouldn't it rather be split into two beans? One request/view scoped for the form itself and another session scoped one for the real session scoped data which get injected in the request/view scoped one. This way you can after the save just perform a redirect to the same view in order to start with a clean form (and have the additional benefit that the very same employee doesn't get duplicated in the DB when you refresh the page after submit).

@ManagedBean
@SessionScoped
public class Manager {

    private Employee employee = new Employee();

    @EJB
    private EmployeeService service;

    public void createEmployee() {
        service.create(employee);
        employee = new Employee();
    }

    public Employee getEmployee() {
        return employee;
    }

}

with

<h:inputText value="#{manager.employee.firstname}" />
<h:inputText value="#{manager.employee.lastname}" />
<h:inputText value="#{manager.employee.telephone}" />
<h:inputText value="#{manager.employee.street}" />
...

Reset input fields of a form after successful submit

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