Controll session-scoped beans instantiation

[Victor Dolirio]

Hi ranchers,

When I'm using my backed bean in scope session, there are centain situations that I would like to create a new instance of this bean in the session. Something like to restart the "state" of my bean. There is a direct way (via jsf api) to accomplish it? I'm wondering if exists a way to do this directly in the pages or in a declarative way...

[]s,
Victor Dolirio

[Daniel Almeida]

Why get a new instance of the entire session bean? You can get new instances of the variables of your bean. Like this:

    

private UserDAO userDAO = null;
private User user = null;

private void restart(){
     this.userDAO = new userDAO;
     this.user = new user();
}

When you need to "restart the state" of your bean you only need to call the restart method.

Hope it's help,

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Daniel Almeida

[Victor Dolirio]

Daniel,

Thanks for regards. Could I call this method without an user action? i.e. When the user enter the url in browser, before it gets rendered?

[]s,
Victor Dolirio

[Daniel Almeida]

Victor Dolirio wrote:Daniel,

Thanks for regards. Could I call this method without an user action? i.e. When the user enter the url in browser, before it gets rendered?

[]s,
Victor Dolirio

Ok, you can implement a Phase Listener for intercept the life cycle render response phase, but I'm not sure this is the best option.

public class TestPhaseListener implements PhaseListener{

    @Override
    public PhaseId getPhaseId() {
        return PhaseId.RENDER_RESPONSE;
    }

    @Override
    public void beforePhase(PhaseEvent event) {
        FacesContext context = event.getFacesContext();
        
        String beanName = "myManagedBean";
        String myView = "myView.xhtml";
        String requestedView = context.getViewRoot().getViewId();
        
        if (requestedView.equals(myView)){
            MyManagedBean myBean = (MyManagedBean) context.getELContext().
                    getELResolver().getValue(context.getELContext(), null, beanName);  

            myBean.restart();
        }
    }

    @Override
    public void afterPhase(PhaseEvent event) {
    }

}

[]s

Daniel Almeida

[Tim Holloway]

You can replace an existing session object with a newly-constructed session object by obtaining the HttpSession and invoking the setAttribute method on it. But I don't recommend that.

You can also "restart" an object, which is something I do more often. For that, I usually define a method named "init()" in the session object, and invoke it when I want to (re)initialize the object. Often the constructor invokes init() as well, just to put everything in one convenient place.

JSF isn't about URLs. It's about model/view/controller interactions. In practical terms, that means that the most common need to "restart" an object is that you're about to begin using it for some sort of business workflow process. And that's generally done from an action method somewhere, often in some other bean, such as a menu-managing bean.