javax.faces.application.ViewExpiredException: View could not be restored

Question

I have written simple application with container-managed security. The problem is when I log in and open another page on which I logout, then I come back to first page and I

Answer 1

I ran into this problem myself and realized that it was because of a side-effect of a Filter that I created which was filtering all requests on the appliation. As soon as I modified the filter to pick only certain requests, this problem did not occur. It maybe good to check for such filters in your application and see how they behave.

Answer 2

You coud use your own custom AjaxExceptionHandler or primefaces-extensions

Update your faces-config.xml

...
<factory>
  <exception-handler-factory>org.primefaces.extensions.component.ajaxerrorhandler.AjaxExceptionHandlerFactory</exception-handler-factory>
</factory>
...

Add following code in your jsf page

...
<pe:ajaxErrorHandler />
...

Answer 3

I was getting this error : javax.faces.application.ViewExpiredException.When I using different requests, I found those having same JsessionId, even after restarting the server. So this is due to the browser cache. Just close the browser and try, it will work.

Answer 4

First what you have to do, before changing web.xml is to make sure your ManagedBean implements Serializable:

@ManagedBean
@ViewScoped
public class Login implements Serializable {
}

Especially if you use MyFaces

Answer 5

When our page is idle for x amount of time the view will expire and throw javax.faces.application.ViewExpiredException to prevent this from happening one solution is to create CustomViewHandler that extends ViewHandler and override restoreView method all the other methods are being delegated to the Parent

import java.io.IOException;
import javax.faces.FacesException;
import javax.faces.application.ViewHandler;
import javax.faces.component.UIViewRoot;
import javax.faces.context.FacesContext;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;

public class CustomViewHandler extends ViewHandler {
    private ViewHandler parent;

    public CustomViewHandler(ViewHandler parent) {
        //System.out.println("CustomViewHandler.CustomViewHandler():Parent View Handler:"+parent.getClass());
        this.parent = parent;
    }

    @Override 
    public UIViewRoot restoreView(FacesContext facesContext, String viewId) {
    /**
     * {@link javax.faces.application.ViewExpiredException}. This happens only  when we try to logout from timed out pages.
     */
        UIViewRoot root = null;
        root = parent.restoreView(facesContext, viewId);
        if(root == null) {
            root = createView(facesContext, viewId);
        }
        return root;
    }

    @Override
    public Locale calculateLocale(FacesContext facesContext) {
        return parent.calculateLocale(facesContext);
    }

    @Override
    public String calculateRenderKitId(FacesContext facesContext) {
        String renderKitId = parent.calculateRenderKitId(facesContext);
        //System.out.println("CustomViewHandler.calculateRenderKitId():RenderKitId: "+renderKitId);
        return renderKitId;
    }

    @Override
    public UIViewRoot createView(FacesContext facesContext, String viewId) {
        return parent.createView(facesContext, viewId);
    }

    @Override
    public String getActionURL(FacesContext facesContext, String actionId) {
        return parent.getActionURL(facesContext, actionId);
    }

    @Override
    public String getResourceURL(FacesContext facesContext, String resId) {
        return parent.getResourceURL(facesContext, resId);
    }

    @Override
    public void renderView(FacesContext facesContext, UIViewRoot viewId) throws IOException, FacesException {
        parent.renderView(facesContext, viewId);
    }

    @Override
    public void writeState(FacesContext facesContext) throws IOException {
        parent.writeState(facesContext);
    }

    public ViewHandler getParent() {
        return parent;
    }

}   

Then you need to add it to your faces-config.xml

<application>
    <view-handler>com.demo.CustomViewHandler</view-handler>
</application>

Thanks for the original answer on the below link: http://www.gregbugaj.com/?p=164

Answer 6

I add the following configuration to web.xml and it got resolved.

<context-param>
    <param-name>com.sun.faces.numberOfViewsInSession</param-name>
    <param-value>500</param-value>
</context-param>
<context-param>
    <param-name>com.sun.faces.numberOfLogicalViews</param-name>
    <param-value>500</param-value>
</context-param>