Problem with ui:repeat and p:commandLink

[neroir]

Hi.

I'm new in JSF and PrimerFaces, and I'm having some problems trying to make p:commandLink work with ui:repeat.

I have a simple example in which I'm trying to update a h:ouputText tag using an actionListener in a commandLink, and it works as expected: when I click the link, the listener method is executed and the otuputText is updated.

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<p:commandLink update="display" actionListener="#{pprBean.savePerson}" style="margin-right:20px;">
   <h:outputText value="Ajax Submit" />
</p:commandLink>
<p:panel id="display" header="Information" style="margin-top:10px;">
   <h:outputText value="#{pprBean.userIdx}" />
</p:panel>

The problem appears when I include the same commandLink inside an ui:repeat tag. In this situation, the actionListener is executed but the outputText is not updated

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<ui:repeat value="#{pprBean.employees}" var="employee">
   <p:commandLink update="display" actionListener="#{pprBean.savePerson}" style="margin-right:20px;">
      <h:outputText value="Ajax Submit" />
   </p:commandLink>
</ui:repeat>

Does anybody know why the commandLink do not update the text when it's inside the ui repeat?

[neroir]

I've found that using <c:forEach> instead of <ui:repeat> works fine. I think i have to investigate the differences between these two tags

[rdeoliveira]

I had this problem and i used p:datatable (with no css skin) instead of ui:repeat.

You can try also to use ui:repeat but with h:commandLink instead of p:commandLink.

[SteveTaylor]

I have the problem too. I tried h:commandLink instead of p:commandLink, but with no success. In my case, I'm using nested ui:repeats, so this doesn't easily translate to a data table without some extra code in the backing bean. However, I will try that as an almost last resort (last resort is c:forEach) and see how I go.

This is obviously a shortcoming of JSF or Mojarra, not primefaces.