JSF2 - javax.el.PropertyNotFoundException. Not working with methods

Question

when I try to render the view, browser show this error

01:46:11,371 GRAVE [javax.enterprise.resource.webcontainer.jsf.application] (http--127.0.0.1-8080-1) Error Rendering View[/index.xhtml]: javax.el.PropertyNotFoundException: /index.xhtml @15,74 value="#{actividades.getAll}": The class 'org.pfc.controller.principal.ActividadesController' does not have the property 'getAll'.
at com.sun.faces.facelets.el.TagValueExpression.getValue(TagValueExpression.java:111) [jsf-impl-2.1.5-jbossorg-1.jar:2.1.5-SNAPSHOT]

ActvidadController code

@ManagedBean(name="actividades")
@ViewScoped public class ActividadesController implements Serializable {

    private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;

    private final static Log logger=LogFactory.getLog(ActividadesController.class);

    @ManagedProperty(value="#{actividadBO}")
    private ActividadBO actividad;



    public void setActividad(ActividadBO actividad) {
        this.actividad = actividad;
    }

    public List<Actividad> getAll(){

        logger.trace("ActividadesController.getAll");

        return actividad.getAll();
    }
}

View code

    <h:body>
        <ui:composition template="/WEB-INF/templates/main-template.xhtml">
            <ui:define name="content">
                <h:dataTable value="#{actividades.getAll}" var="actividad">
                    <h:column>
                        <f:facet name="header">
                            <h:outputText>Título</h:outputText>
                        </f:facet>
                        <h:outputText value="{actividad.titulo}"></h:outputText>
                    </h:column>
                </h:dataTable>
            </ui:define>
        </ui:composition>
</h:body>

I use JBOSS 7 and my project has el-impl2.2.jar,el-api.1.1.jar and icefaces3 libraries.

I don´t understand why the render not working.

Any suggestions?

Kind regards.

Answer 1

Here,

<h:dataTable value="#{actividades.getAll}" var="actividad">

Your EL expression is invalid. It's looking for a method getGetAll(), but you only have a getAll() method representing a getter for the (fictive) property all. The property doesn't need to exist at all (it's supposed to be private anyway).

So, to fix your problem, it must be

<h:dataTable value="#{actividades.all}" var="actividad">

or, if you're using EL 2.2 (but this way is not recommended)

<h:dataTable value="#{actividades.getAll()}" var="actividad">

Either way, it will call the proper getAll() method.

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Unrelated to the concrete problem, you've by the way another design flaw in your code. A getter is invoked as many times as EL needs to resolve it. Doing business/database access job inside a getter method is a bad idea. A getter is supposed to just return bean properties. Rather move the DB job out to bean's (post)constructor.

private List<Actividad> all;

@PostConstruct
public void init() {
    all = actividad.getAll();
}

public List<Actividad> getAll(){
    logger.trace("ActividadesController.getAll");
    return all;
}

See also:

• Why JSF calls getters multiple times