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How to ensure JSF aware that the particular property is of type java.lang.String?


Not sure what is happening to following code:

<h:dataTable value="{scheduler.quartzJobList}" var="q"
    styleClass="quartz-table" headerClass="quartz-table-header"
    rowClasses="quartz-table-odd-row,quartz-table-even-row">

    <h:column>
        <f:facet name="header">Job Name</f:facet>
        #{q.jobName}
    </h:column>

it just failed whenever I try to render it on Tomcat6. Here is the stack trace:

javax.el.ELException: /quartzjob.xhtml: Property 'jobName' not found on type java.lang.String
    at com.sun.faces.facelets.compiler.TextInstruction.write(TextInstruction.java:88)
    at com.sun.faces.facelets.compiler.UIInstructions.encodeBegin(UIInstructions.java:82)
    at com.sun.faces.renderkit.html_basic.HtmlBasicRenderer.encodeRecursive(HtmlBasicRenderer.java:302)
    at com.sun.faces.renderkit.html_basic.TableRenderer.renderRow(TableRenderer.java:385)
    at com.sun.faces.renderkit.html_basic.TableRenderer.encodeChildren(TableRenderer.java:162)
    at javax.faces.component.UIComponentBase.encodeChildren(UIComponentBase.java:885)
    at javax.faces.component.UIComponent.encodeAll(UIComponent.java:1779)
    at javax.faces.render.Renderer.encodeChildren(Renderer.java:168)
    at javax.faces.component.UIComponentBase.encodeChildren(UIComponentBase.java:885)
    at javax.faces.component.UIComponent.encodeAll(UIComponent.java:1779)
    at javax.faces.component.UIComponent.encodeAll(UIComponent.java:1782)
    at javax.faces.component.UIComponent.encodeAll(UIComponent.java:1782)
    at com.sun.faces.application.view.FaceletViewHandlingStrategy.renderView(FaceletViewHandlingStrategy.java:447)
    at com.sun.faces.application.view.MultiViewHandler.renderView(MultiViewHandler.java:124)
    at com.sun.faces.lifecycle.RenderResponsePhase.execute(RenderResponsePhase.java:120)
    at com.sun.faces.lifecycle.Phase.doPhase(Phase.java:101)
    at com.sun.faces.lifecycle.LifecycleImpl.render(LifecycleImpl.java:139)
    at javax.faces.webapp.FacesServlet.service(FacesServlet.java:594)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:290)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:233)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:191)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:127)
    at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:102)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:109)
    at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:298)
    at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:859)
    at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.process(Http11Protocol.java:588)
    at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.JIoEndpoint$Worker.run(JIoEndpoint.java:489)
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662)

This is how I construct the action bean:

@ManagedBean(name="scheduler")
@SessionScoped
public class SchedulerBean implements Serializable {

    private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;

    private Scheduler scheduler;

    private List<QuartzJob> quartzJobList = new ArrayList<QuartzJob>();

    public static class QuartzJob {

       private String jobName;

       // getter and setter of jobName
    }
}

If I remove the #{q.jobName} it just working fine. Following are the library being use in my project:

  • el-impl-2.2.jar
  • jsf-api-2.1.23.jar
  • jsf-impl-2.1.23.jar
  • jstl-1.2.jar
  • jsf-api-2.0.1.jar
  • jsf-impl-2.0.1.jar

Solution

  • You are missing # in

    <h:dataTable value="{scheduler.quartzJobList}" var="q"
    

    It should be,

     <h:dataTable value="#{scheduler.quartzJobList}" var="q"
    

    and make sure you have a getter of quartzJobList.