Question

I have the following form in a p:outputPanel

<h:form id="someForm">
    <p:panel id="panel" header="HEADER">
        <h:panelGrid columns="5">

            <h:outputLabel value="Name:" for="name" />

            <p:inputText id="name" value="#{userBean.name}" required="true"
                requiredMessage="ASD" label="name" maxlength="15">
                <f:validateLength minimum="10"></f:validateLength>
                <p:ajax event="blur" update="inputValidationMessage" />
            </p:inputText>

            <p:message id="inputValidationMessage" showDetail="true" for="name"
                display="icon" />
            <p:watermark for="name" value="e.g Jill" />

        </h:panelGrid>

        <p:commandButton value="Save" update="panel"
            actionListener="#{userBean.doSomething}">
        </p:commandButton>
    </p:panel>
</h:form>

I expect that when the inputText element loses focus and its content has a length less than 10 characters, the message ASD is displayed right next to it. However, what happens in case validation fails is, only a red cross icon is displayed. The message ASD is missing. Changing showDetail to showSummary doesn’t work neither.

Secondly, the commandButton calls userBean.doSomething:

UserBean#doSomething:

public void doSomething(ActionEvent actionEvent) {
        RequestContext context = RequestContext.getCurrentInstance();
        FacesMessage facesMessage = new FacesMessage(FacesMessage.SEVERITY_WARN,
                                          "Summary",
                                          "Detail"));
        FacesContext.getCurrentInstance().addMessage(null, facesMessage);
        context.addCallbackParam("booleanVar", true);
}

The FacesMessage is not being displayed.

I’m using JSF2.0 with Primefaces 3.0 on Weblogic 12.1.

Any help appreciated.

Answer 1

You’ve declared the <p:message> as follows:

<p:message ... display="icon" />

Here’s a cite from the <p:message> documentation in the PrimeFaces User Guide:

Display Mode

Message component has three different display modes;

• text : Only message text is displayed.
• icon : Only message severity is displayed and message text is visible as a tooltip.
• both (default) : Both icon and text are displayed.

So the message severity is displayed as icon and message text is only displayed as tooltip of the icon. You need to remove the display="icon" so that it will show both in view.

<p:message ... />