facesMessages addToControl - message lost

08. Dec 2009, 11:00 America/New_York | Link dragos cernahoschi

On form submit some validation is performed and a validation message is enqued:

facesMessages.addToControlFromResourceBundle("username", Severity.ERROR, "user.uniqueUsername");

The view is redisplayed but no message is rendered next to the control. A warning messages is displayed instead on the console:

sourceId=null[severity=(ERROR 2), summary=(Existing username), detail=(Existing username!)]

The responsible view part is bellow:

<h:form>
...				
   <s:decorate id="usernameDecoration" template="layout/edit.xhtml">
       <ui:define name="label"><h:outputText value="#{messages['account.username']}"/>:</ui:define>
       <h:inputText id="username" value="#{register.username}" required="true"/>
       <ui:define name="errMessage">
            <rich:message for="username" styleClass="error">
                 <ui:include src="layout/valid-err.xhtml"/>
            </rich:message>
       </ui:define>							
   </s:decorate>
...
</h:form>

A rich:messages or h:messages tag displays the message. It seems that the control with the specified id is not found and the message is treated as global one. What happens?