Hi,

Can someone please clarify at what instant the "model" objects of view state will be added to the flowscope? I am trying to setup some default values to my model object but the object isn't there in flowcope at on-render time.

Here is what I have so far..

myflow.xml........

Code:
 <flow....>
             <on-start>
                    <evaluate expression="myFlowAction.setupFlowData"/>
             </on-start>

             <view-state id="home" view="home" model="homeModel">
                    <on-render>
                               <evaluate expression="myFlowAction.setupHomeModelDefaults"/>
                   </on-render>
                   <transition>.........</transition>
             </view-state>
  </flow>
MyFlowAction

Code:
    public class MyFlowAction extends MultiAction{

                  public void setupFlowData(RequestContext context){
                                    //setup data required through out the flow
                    }

                 public void setupHomeModelDefaults(RequestContext context){
                                     HomeModel homeModel = context.getFlowScope().get("homeModel");
                                    
                                    homeModel.setXXX();
                                    ////////////////

                 }

    }
but the homeModel object in setupHomeModelDefaults in null. I thought that the model will be added to flow scope before rendering the page. If I change the method to like the one below, it works perfectly.

Code:
 public void setupHomeModelDefaults(RequestContext context){
                                     HomeModel homeModel = new HomeModel();
                                    
                                    homeModel.setXXX();
                                    ////////////////

                                     context.getFlowScope().put("homeModel", homeModel):

                 }

Are we supposed to manually add the model object after setting the values all the time? I am sure I must be missing something here.

Thanks in advance!