I am working with JSF (PrimeFaces)/EJB/JPA and a MySQL database. What I want to do is to show AT THE TOP OF THE XHTML BODY "User was successfully added to database" info message when an user is introduced successfully in the DB. I know I can use h:messages but then, also the validation error messages `are shown at the top of the body, and I want the error messages to be shown below the input fields. How could I do this?
Facelet code
<h:body>
<h:messages errorStyle="color: red" infoStyle="color: green" layout="table"/>`<!--WRONG-->
<p:inputText id="name" required="true" value="#{usersManagedBean.username}" requiredMessage="requiered field">
<f:validator validatorId="validators.NameValidator"/>
</p:inputText>
<p:watermark for="name" value="User" />
<p:message for="name" />
<p:inputText id="age" required="true" value="#{usersManagedBean.username}" requiredMessage="requiered field">
<f:validator validatorId="validators.AgeValidator"/>
</p:inputText>
<p:watermark for="age" value="Age" />
<p:message for="age" />
<p:commandButton value="Save user" action="#{usersManagedBean.saveUser}" ajax="false" />
</h:body>
Managed Bean code
//imports
@Named(value = "usersManagedBean")
@SessionScoped
public class UsersManagedBean implements Serializable
{
String username;
int userage;
@PostConstruct
public void init()
{
username="";
userage=0;
}
//Getters and Setters
public void saveUser()
{
User eUser = new Users();
eUser.setName(username);
eUser.setAge(userage);
ejbUsersDAO.create(eUser); //DAO
addSuccessMessage("User was successfully added to database");
}
public static void addSuccessMessage(String msg)
{
FacesMessage facesMsg = new FacesMessage(FacesMessage.SEVERITY_INFO, msg, msg);
FacesContext fc = FacesContext.getCurrentInstance();
fc.addMessage("successInfo", facesMsg);
}
}
Try setting globalOnly="true"
attribute in your <h:messages>
and change your addSuccessMessage to
fc.addMessage(null, facesMsg);