We're on CF 8 and we have a CF application with a 1 hour session timeout specified.
<cfapplication sessionmanagement="yes" sessiontimeout="#CreateTimeSpan(0, 0, 60, 0)#" name="myAppName" clientmanagement="yes">
Within the CF administrator, we have a default session timeout of 1 hour, and a max session timeout of 1 day.
We're having some odd (intermittent) form timeout issues on submission of a regular form (not a flash form)...
Let's say the user hits the form page at 10:30am. (I know this because I'm appending the time to the "Action" property of the form tag). At 11:10am, the user submits the form, but none of the form struct is available to the action page, so the user gets an error.
I know that it's coming from the correct page since the CGI.referrer is defined properly.
In my custom error handler, I iterate over any form, session, or client structs -- and there is NO form struct defined at this point. All of the other Session and Client variables ARE still available.
Excerpts from Form Page:
<cfform name="chairsComment" id="chairsComment" action="library/save_chairsComment.cfm?Start=0224_153027" method="post" >
<input name="chairsCommentNumber" id="chairsCommentNumber" type="hidden" value="13" />
<textarea name="comment_13" rows="50" wrap="virtual" cols="100" id="comment_13" ></textarea>
<input name="save_answer" id="save_answer" type="submit" value="Save Response" />
</cfform>
And for the Action page, it throws an error on line 1:
<cfset whichCommentNumber = form.chairsCommentNumber>
It works during testing, but when some of our users use it, it throws the error that "Element CHAIRSCOMMENTNUMBER is undefined in FORM." We've just started looking at the specific browser that this individual is using (Safari 4.0.3) and asked him to upgrade to 5.x, but with SUCH a vanilla form, it seems an unlikely culprit.
Any Ideas?
In the midst of a discussion on Ray Camden's blog about file uploading, someone mentions a problem with Safari 4.0.5 throwing an error because the form field did not contain a file ... it's not the same problem, necessarily, but it could be related. Unfortunately, the commenter never returned with more information.
There's a post on another blog here where a commenter mentions an issue with Safari and a cfform inside a cfdiv tag. If your cfform is similarly nested, you might need to reverse the order (nest the cfdiv inside the form) to make this work.
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I'm blocked for couple of days on a JSF issue.
I have a web app where I create the page content quite dynamically from database data. Every page has several sections containing a form with h:commandButton (or a set of buttons).
Some forms work correctly and the form action method is launched as expected. Some other forms however don't work - the action method is not being called at all.
And I don't know why :-(
I know this response: action method is not called in JSF which lists conditions which must be fulfilled and I believe that everything is ok here, but it simply doesn't work for some forms...
Some points:
The problem is 100% repeatable
The same piece of XHTML is used for both successful and unsuccessful requests
The same action method (in the same bean) is being called for all forms
the console output differs in both cases
...RESTORE_VIEW phase is the same (my code logs seem to be equal)
...APPLY_REQUEST and few other phases are empty for the wrong case (only the final RENDER_RESPONSE phase is being executed
...APPLY_REQUEST and the following phases are not empty for the correct phase
(using ui:debug) Scoped variables / Request parameters contain ONLY vallues passed via f:param for the successfull case
Scoped variables / Request parameters contain however also formid, formid:action_name and an input box content for the UNsuccessfull case
the console shows absolutely no exception in any case
the correct request returns HTTP code 302 followed by another GET request with the target parameters (as build in the action method)
the incorrect request returns directly 200 (and no action is called)
when the JSF debug is switched on (javax.faces.level = ALL, com.sun.faces.level = ALL) still no exception is being shown, I see only couple of "javax.faces.component.UIComponentBase getRenderer\nFINE: No renderer-type for component j_idt171" messages and one "com.sun.faces.facelets.util.DevTools writeAttributes
FINEST: Error writing out attribute" followed by a NullPointerException - during RENDER_RESPONSE phase
So most probably there is a problem with restoring the view, but I have no idea why. The same XHTML block generates form and command button for both (successfull and unsuccessfull) cases (in a c:forEach loop).
But the strange think is also difference in the parameters in the correct case an in the wrong case...
Can anyone plase give me some directions what/where I should be looking for?
Thanks a lot in advance!
EDIT: some code...
This is the XHTML (unnecessary code cis cut)
<ui:composition xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
xmlns:h="http://xmlns.jcp.org/jsf/html"
xmlns:c="http://xmlns.jcp.org/jsp/jstl/core"
xmlns:f="http://xmlns.jcp.org/jsf/core"
xmlns:p="http://primefaces.org/ui"
xmlns:ui="http://xmlns.jcp.org/jsf/facelets"
template="/templates/base.xhtml">
<ui:define name="title">IS runtime</ui:define>
<ui:define name="menu">
<h:link value="Home" outcome="/index" /> | <h:link value="IS home"
outcome="/runtime">
<f:param name="env" value="#{param.env}" />
</h:link>
</ui:define>
<ui:define name="content">
<c:forEach var="pv" items="#{runtimeBean.pageViews}">
<div id="view_#{runtimeBean.ISViews[pv.view].code}"
class="view_#{runtimeBean.ISViews[pv.view].code}">
<h2>#{runtimeBean.ISViews[pv.view].code}</h2>
<h:form id="form_#{runtimeBean.ISViews[pv.view].code}">
<h:messages />
<c:if
test="#{runtimeBean.getEnvView(pv.view).type == 'RECORD_DETAIL'}">
<c:forEach var="item" items="#{runtimeBean.getViewItems(pv.view)}">
<h:outputText value="#{item.sqlColumn}" />:
<ui:fragment rendered="#{item.type == 'INPUT_FIELD'}">
<h:inputText id="#{item.sqlColumn}"
value="#{runtimeBean.sqlData0[item.sqlColumn]}" />
</ui:fragment>
<ui:fragment rendered="#{item.type == 'READ_ONLY'}">
<h:outputText value="#{runtimeBean.sqlData0[item.sqlColumn]}" />
</ui:fragment>
<br />
</c:forEach>
</c:if>
<c:forEach var="action"
items="#{runtimeBean.getViewActions(pv.view, 'BOTTOM_LEFT')}">
<h:commandButton id="action_BL_#{action.code}"
value="#{action.code}" action="#{runtimeBean.doPageAction}">
<f:param name="env" value="#{param.env}" />
<f:param name="view" value="#{pv.view}" />
<f:param name="action" value="#{action.id}" />
<c:forEach var="actionParam"
items="#{runtimeBean.getActionParams(pv.view)}">
<f:param name="#{actionParam}" value="#{param[actionParam]}" />
</c:forEach>
</h:commandButton>
</c:forEach>
</h:form>
</div>
</c:forEach>
<ui:debug hotkey="z"
rendered="#{facesContext.application.projectStage == 'Development'}" />
</ui:define>
</ui:composition>
This is Scoped Variables / Request Parameters for the correctly processed action:
Name Value
env 5
id 22
page 3
After the correct action the next page contains the parameters as passed:
http://localhost:8080/metais/runtime.jsf?env=5&page=3&id=22
and the same for the incorrect action:
Name Value
action 3
env 5
form_prj_detail form_prj_detail
form_prj_detail:action_BL_delete form_prj_detail:action_BL_delete
form_prj_detail:name p5
id 22
view 3
In the wrong case the next page doesn't show the arguments. Just simple:
http://localhost:8080/metais/runtime.jsf
In both cases the parameters are passed already in the HTTP (POST) request. It seems to me more as a problem of javascript part of the JSF library...
EDIT2:
I made some progress in investigating the problem and I've found the following:
The page is being generated dynamically including the forms. They are generated based on parameters passed to the page.
However when applying the form data, they are being applied to page built with missing parameter. If the particular form is NOT present on the same page rendered w/o this parameter, the JSF then doesn't know the form instance and thus its values are not applied and the rest of the page processing chain is invalid.
Using different words: if I add the problematic form to a "default page" (with missing page parameter), the form is processed also from different pages (the same XHTML but different parametrs causing showing different forms on the page).
So for some reason when the page is restored or when the form data are being applied not all page parameters are used to restore the view.
...I made one small step but still don't have a solution and I'm frustrated :-(((
BR,
Rada
So, finally I've understood the problem.
The problem is in the Restore View phase when the server reconstructs the submitted page before any form values could be set and before the form action could be performed.
The point is that the page is not being restored from internal JSF view state but it's restored as a "new" page - and using arguments used to build the original page.
My app. creates the forms dynamically and concrete page content depends on the page parameters (set in the HTTP GET message) and then data read from DB. Pressing a command button builds a request with parameters necessary for making the action - which however don't match with parameters necessary to reconstruct the original/previous page (I don't care of it).
This means that the Restore view is reconstructing DIFFERENT page than the one the command button is pressed from. This means that the reconstructed forms don't match with the original page forms. And this finally means that they can't be matched and thus the follow up life cycle steps are not successfull and no action method could be called.
So... this is either my misunderstanding of the JSF principles OR it's a JSF design issue.
I'd simply expect that the Restore View must be performed implicitly and automatically...
Comments welcome!
BR,
Rada
I'm trying to fill, submit, and test a web form in Play Framework, using ScalaTest and FluentLenium. It seems like it should be very straightforward, but I'm having all kinds of problems.
First, part of the web form in question:
<form class="signin" id="loginform" method="POST" action="/login">
<div class="form-group">
<label for="name">Email Address:</label>
<input type="email" class="form-control" placeholder="Enter Email Address" id="email" name="email" required />
...
This works fine from a real web browser. Now the problem comes when I try to fill in and submit the form:
#RunWith(classOf[JUnitRunner])
#SharedDriver(deleteCookies = false)
#SharedDriver(`type` = SharedDriver.SharedType.PER_CLASS)
class TestWebsiteAuthentication extends Specification {
"Application" should {
"login as an administrative user on the web site" in new WithBrowser with GPAuthenticationTestUtility {
browser.goTo(loginURL)
browser.fill("#email").`with`(prerequisiteAccounts.head.userIdentity) must equalTo(OK)
...
At that last line, I get an exception:
[info] x login as an administrative user on the web site
[error] 'org.fluentlenium.core.action.FillConstructor#1c25c183' is not equal to '200' (TestWebsiteAuthentication.scala:93)
[error] Expected: 200
[error] Actual: org.fluentlenium.core.action.FillConstructor#1c25c183
Any ideas what I'm doing wrong here?
I've tried taking out the "must equalTo(OK)" but this just causes the form to fail on submit -- unfortunately, I haven't been able to find ANY documentation on how to do this, so I'm basically piecing it together bit by bit. Pointers to relevant documentation would be appreciated -- there doesn't seem to be anything complete at Tyrpesafe... just "teasers" that get you started, but no depth. :-(
When you write browser.fill("#email").``with``("x#y.com"), all you're really doing is telling Fluentlenium to edit the template to add a value attribute inside the input tag.
On the other hand, OK is an HTTP status code, so comparing them will naturally yield false.
When you say you tried to submit the form and it failed, i am assuming you did something such as:
browser.fill("#email").`with`("x#y.com")
browser.fill("#password").`with`("myPass")
browser.click("#button") // this should submit the form and load the page after login
and then tried to make an assertion such as:
browser.title() must equalTo("next page") // fails because "next page" != "login page"
one suggestion is to try something like this, Before browser.click:
browser.pageSource() must contain("xyz") // this will fail
When the above assertion fails, it will print the content of browser.pageSource() to your terminal, and you'll be able to see the modifications the Fill function did to the HTML.
In my case, I observed that my pageSource() now contained the following:
<input type="text" id="email" name="email" value="x#y.com"/>
<input type="password" id="password" name="password"/>
Notice how the first input has a value="x#y.com", but the second input is still empty. It turns out the second one is empty because it is an input of type password, however I eventually made the form login work.
Here is a list of things you can look into:
have a database enabled in that Spec
have it populated with Users (in case your form validation connects to a DB, that is)
from what I have experienced, using browser.goTo more than once in a test will not work well with form submission (anyone can confirm?)
Hope this helps
Hello I have that form:
<h:form>
<h:selectOneRadio layout="pageDirection" value="#{votesBean.answer}">
<f:converter converterId="PollConverter"/>
<f:selectItems value="#{pollsBean.selectItems}"/>
</h:selectOneRadio>
<h:messages/>
<h:commandButton value="#{msgs.vote}" action="/profile/main.xhtml"/>
</h:form>
But when I submit this form, page no redirects to main.xhtml, but refresh current page (viewpoll.xhtml, I ‘think because there are errors in form), but not include view parameters. I use view parameter to know current poll… in result I get nullpointer exception, because I don’t have poll id.
If you would like to navigate directly without validation and conversion, use immediate="true" in h:commandButton.
Otherwise, there might be a failure in Request Processing Life Cycle, Eg. validation phase.
Finally, your URL(/profile/main.xhtml) address is incorrect.
I'm using Watir WebDriver with Firefox.
Here are two asserts for the same element. The first works, but not the second:
assert_match(/Please add user to GMT/, #browser.small(:class, "error").text)
assert_match(/Please add user to GMT/, #browser.div(:class, "eight mobile-three columns").small(:class, "error").text)
I need the second assert to work, because there are 8 error messages on the page, which are presented if the user does not populate 8 mandatory fields. All 8 errors have the identical HTML. So, I need to be able to step down from the parent.
Here is the HTML:
<div class="eight mobile-three columns">
<a id="btnAddUserToGMT" class="success radius button expand error" onclick="AddUserToGMT();" data-reveal-id="addToGMT" href="#"> … </a>
<small class="error" style="margin-top:0px;">
Please add user to GMT
</small>
</div>
Here is the error message:
Watir::Exception::UnknownObjectException: unable to locate element, using {:class=>"error", :tag_name=>"small"}
C:/Ruby193/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/watir-webdriver-0.6.4/lib/watir-webdriver/elements/element.rb:490:in `assert_exists'
C:/Ruby193/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/watir-webdriver-0.6.4/lib/watir-webdriver/elements/element.rb:85:in `text'
C:/Documents and Settings/Asserts_01.rb:22:in `testBasic'
The complaint for the second assert is:
unable to locate element, using {:class=>"error", :tag_name=>"small"}
And yet that same using was OK for the first assert.
Problem solved.
After discussion with the developer, it appears that by some unusual manipulation of automatically generated HTML, the text of the error message appears at its correct location on the page. But the assertion must be based on a different tag, which is specified at some completely different position on the page.
For example, I was trying to assert on this code at the correct position:
<small class="error" style="margin-top:0px;">
Gender is required
</small
Even unique xPath generated by FirePath failed to find this.
What I should have asserted on was a HIDDEN tag on a completely different part of the page.
<input id="errorMsgGenderID" name="errorMsgGenderID" type="hidden" value="Gender is required" />
There were several such tags for each mandatory field that was not populated, all bunched together on the same line. They were all "input" tags, which puzzled me.
So I'm getting an error:
501 Method Not Implemented
POST to /newbooks.php not supported.
The code works fine, except when I pass (via POST) new-line characters, in which case I get the above error. Here is the form
<form method="post" action="?action=addnewbooks&submit=validate">
<Textarea name="newbooklist" rows="30" cols="68"></textarea>
Password: <input type="password" name="password" size="8" maxlength="50"></input>
<button type="submit" name="Submit">Submit</button>
</form>
A sample of what I'm pasting in below.
Heartwishes : an Edilean novel / Jude Deveraux|Deveraux, Jude|2011|9781439108000 (hbk.)| Kill me if you can : a novel / by James Patterson and Marshall Karp|Patterson, James|2011|9780316097543| Murder by mocha / Cleo Coyle|Coyle, Cleo|2011|9780425241431 (hbk.)|
I can clean the data up once it's passed to the second page of the form, but I'm not sure what I can do since it's crapping out before it passes the data to the validation page. The data that is being pasted in the form is actually a huge report (full of duplicates to) that is auto-generated. Edited to add: I'm reasonably certain it's the James Patterson book that is causing the problem, but I can't see where the problem is.
EDIT: So James Patterson is a 1337 hacker. Since I know what the problem is, now it's just a matter of finding a solution. Since the list is all of the books added to the library's collection in the last week, we're sure to more titles that start with kill. Are there other words that are likely to make modsecurity think it's an SQL attack? What can I do to pre-clean the data to deal with this kind of thing?
So turns out this is triggering our server's firewall. It sees %0D%0AKill in the POST data and thinks it's a System Command Injection.