conversation scope

[chris.lam]

hi all, I have read about the web flow documentation
but i am not quite sure about the conversation scope...

I would like to know when exactly is a bean in conversation scope goes out of scope...
after a bindAndValidate() of the assocaited formAction?

after a form submission with that bean,
i found that subsequent form with the same formAction is populated with the previously entered value...
is it the form still associated with the same bean?
or is it required that i call resetForm() manually after every form submission?

thanks.

[Marten Deinum]

hi all, I have read about the web flow documentation

Read closer. The different scopes are clearly explained...

REQUEST - Object destroyed after request
FLASH - Object destroyed after request-response cycle
FLOW - Object destroyed when flow finishes
CONVERSATION - Object destroyed when the conversation finishes.

Request is the shortest lived, Conversation the longest...

[lfbarragan]

Hi guys, I think there is a big confusion around the scopes, I've googled around for a couple of days trying to find a spring definition , because the ones in the documentation are not clear enough.

I understand this:

CONVERSATION - Object destroyed when the conversation finishes.

But is there a Spring definition for "conversation" in the documentation?

What's the difference between this scopes and the Seam scopes?

In my case I need a different session for each browser tab, and I'm still not sure how to implement this with Spring Webflow but I've heard that it's possible with Seam.

[KDante]

Is there anything more written about it? I'm solving the same problem with session (conversation) for each panel.

[InverseFalcon]

I'm assuming you understand how flow scope works. If a flow is invoked explicitly, NOT as a subflow, then it is a top-level flow, and starts a new conversation. The conversation (and attributes in conversation scope) last for the duration of the top-level flow and any subflows it calls. When a top-level flow ends, the conversation ends and conversation scope is cleaned up.

If you do a flow-redirect in the top-level flow's end-state, then you are ending one conversation (and cleaning up conversation scope) and starting another, with a new top-level flow.

Hope this helps.