Question

I want to use the arquillian warp test framework for a JSF project I am developing. I understand that I need to use the CDI annotations instead of the JSF ones to get this to work. I am using @ViewScoped beans so I have included seam-faces in my project to deal with this (i am running on JBoss 7). I have modified my beans to use @Named and where I was using @PostConstruct I have put this into the constructor which all seems to be okay.

When I access a view with a selectOneMenu it never has any list items. Here is the code form the view and the bean.

View:

<h:selectOneMenu value="#{ngoBean.ngo.country}" >
    <f:selectItems value="#{ngoBean.countryValues}" />
</h:selectOneMenu>

Bean:

import com.a.Facade;
import com.a.CountryEnum;
import com.a.GoverningBody;

import javax.annotation.PostConstruct;
import javax.ejb.EJB;
import javax.faces.bean.ViewScoped;
import javax.faces.model.SelectItem;
import javax.inject.Named;
import java.io.Serializable;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;

/**
 * Created with IntelliJ IDEA.
 */
@Named("ngoBean")
@ViewScoped
public class NgoBean implements Serializable {

    private GoverningBody ngo = new GoverningBody();
    private List<GoverningBody> ngoList;
    private boolean edit;

    private List<SelectItem> countryValues;

    @EJB(beanName = "NgoFacadeImpl")
    private Facade<GoverningBody> ngoController;

    public NgoBean(){
    }

    @PostConstruct
    public void init(){
        //TODO this is a bad way of loading db data i should change it
        ngoList = ngoController.findAll();

        countryValues = initCountryValues();
    }

    public void add(){
        ngoList.add(ngoController.save(ngo));

        //reset the variable
        ngo = new GoverningBody();
    }

    public void edit(GoverningBody item) {
        this.ngo = item;
        edit = true;
    }

    public void save() {
        ngo = ngoController.update(ngo);
        edit = false;
    }

    public void delete(GoverningBody item) {
        ngoController.delete(item);
        ngoList.remove(item);
    }

    public List<GoverningBody> getNgoList() {
        return ngoList;
    }

    public GoverningBody getNgo() {
        return ngo;
    }

    public boolean isEdit() {
        return edit;
    }

    public List<SelectItem> getCountryValues() {
        return countryValues;
    }

    public void setCountryValues(List<SelectItem> countryValues) {
        this.countryValues = countryValues;
    }

    public List<SelectItem> initCountryValues() {
        List<SelectItem> items = new ArrayList<>(CountryEnum.values().length);
        int i = 0;
        for(CountryEnum g: CountryEnum.values()) {
            items.add(new SelectItem(g, g.getName()));
        }

        System.out.println("items = " + items);
        return items;
    }
}

I tried annotating the method with @Factory("countryValues") but this didn’t seem to help.

Answer 1

This problem was unrelated to the symptom. The root cause of the problem was an incorrectly located beans.xml this should have be in the WEB-INF directory of the war not the META-INF directory of the ear.

I also changed the seam-faces dependency to use apache CODI, this is not necessary but this uses @ViewAccessScoped instead of @ViewScoped the different name is less ambiguous I think.