Richfaces Datatable loses submitted value of inputs on validation fail - validation

Question

I have two inputs - one inside a "normal" h:dataTable and one inside a rich:dataTable When I submit a wrong value, i.e. validation fails, the "normal" one keeps the value I submitted while the second one loses it. See the following code snippets (enter any value an press the button):
ManagedBean
#ManagedBean
#ViewScoped
public class TestController implements Serializable {
private static final long serialVersionUID = -484022507596298941L;
private String[] stringArray1 = {"Element 1", "Element 2"}; // + Getter
private String[] stringArray2 = {"Element A", "Element B"}; // + Getter
private Map<String, String> inputValues = new HashMap<String, String>(4); // + Getter
public TestController() {
inputValues.put(stringArray1[0], "");
inputValues.put(stringArray1[1], "");
inputValues.put(stringArray2[0], "");
inputValues.put(stringArray2[1], "");
}
public void doSomething() {
System.out.println("Did something");
}
public void validate(FacesContext facesContext, UIComponent uiComponent, Object value) {
throw new ValidatorException(new FacesMessage("This can never be valid."));
}
}
View
<h:form>
<h1>h:dataTable</h1>
<h:dataTable id="table1" value="#{testController.stringArray1}" var="string" columnClasses="inactive">
<h:column>
<h:outputText value="#{string}:"/>
<h:inputText id="someInput" value="#{testController.inputValues[string]}" validator="#{testController.validate}"/>
<h:message for="someInput" id="msg" style="color: red;"/>
</h:column>
</h:dataTable>
<h1>rich:dataTable</h1>
<rich:dataTable id="table2" value="#{testController.stringArray2}" var="string">
<rich:column>
<h:outputText value="#{string}:"/>
<h:inputText id="someInput" value="#{testController.inputValues[string]}" validator="#{testController.validate}"/>
<h:message for="someInput" id="msg" style="color: red;"/>
</rich:column>
</rich:dataTable>
<h:commandButton id="button" action="#{testController.doSomething}" value="do something"/>
</h:form>
Is this known Richfaces behaviour or a bug of some kind? Is there a way to make it behave the same way the normal JSF-DataTable does? Using h:dataTable instead is not always an option and losing your "I-was-just-about-to-correct-it" input is rather annoying.
ADDITION:
I just checked the behaviour of ui:repeat and a4j:repeat and it's just the same: ui:repeat keeps the submitted value while a4j:repeat does not.
UPDATE: Re-worked example code to rule out some possible problems as mentioned in comments (input fields now point to different values; only one form element).
Tested on Mojarra 2.1.21 with RichFaces 4.3.7 and JBoss AS 7 plus on Mojarra 2.2.7 with RichFaces 4.5.0 Alpha3 and JBoss Wildlfy - same result.

Answer 1

I just tried each form of your page separately with Richefaces 4.3.7 and Mojarra 2.2.6 and it's perfectly working! i didn't noticed any abnormal behavior, when validation fails i didn't lost any values. That means that there is no Validation issues with the Richfaces components.
However, When using the two forms in a single page, i can notice that when i submit the first form the inputText of the second form loses it's value, while if we submit the form2 the inputText of the first form don't lost it's value, in my guess its because JSF stored the state of it's HTML components in the javax.faces.ViewState and doesn't do the same for Richfaces components, using Firebug you can easily verify that the only common request parameter between those two POST requests is the javax.faces.ViewState.