Facelets: Setter not found for property class

“Setter not found for property class” is one of the most frustrating errors you can get in a Seam / facelets project.

It usually appears late, and you spend a long time trying to solve it. The solution is so simple you have to bang your hand when you finally find it.

I write this in the hope that it shows first in Google searches for this error…

The stack trace

The stack trace is not very useful:
[cc lang="java"]
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Setter not found for property class
at javax.faces.component.UIComponentBase$AttributesMap.put(UIComponentBase.java:1594)
at javax.faces.component.UIComponentBase$AttributesMap.put(UIComponentBase.java:1499)
at com.sun.facelets.tag.jsf.ComponentRule$LiteralAttributeMetadata.applyMetadata(ComponentRule.java:49)
at com.sun.facelets.tag.MetadataImpl.applyMetadata(MetadataImpl.java:36)
at com.sun.facelets.tag.MetaTagHandler.setAttributes(MetaTagHandler.java:62)
at com.sun.facelets.tag.jsf.ComponentHandler.apply(ComponentHandler.java:144)
at com.sun.facelets.tag.CompositeFaceletHandler.apply(CompositeFaceletHandler.java:47)
at com.sun.facelets.tag.ui.DefineHandler.applyDefinition(DefineHandler.java:64)
at com.sun.facelets.tag.ui.CompositionHandler.apply(CompositionHandler.java:131)
at com.sun.facelets.impl.DefaultFaceletContext$TemplateManager.apply(DefaultFaceletContext.java:337)
at com.sun.facelets.impl.DefaultFaceletContext.includeDefinition(DefaultFaceletContext.java:307)
at com.sun.facelets.tag.ui.InsertHandler.apply(InsertHandler.java:68)
at com.sun.facelets.tag.CompositeFaceletHandler.apply(CompositeFaceletHandler.java:47)
at com.sun.facelets.tag.jsf.ComponentHandler.applyNextHandler(ComponentHandler.java:314)
at com.sun.facelets.tag.jsf.ComponentHandler.apply(ComponentHandler.java:169)
at com.sun.facelets.tag.CompositeFaceletHandler.apply(CompositeFaceletHandler.java:47)
at com.sun.facelets.compiler.NamespaceHandler.apply(NamespaceHandler.java:49)
at com.sun.facelets.tag.CompositeFaceletHandler.apply(CompositeFaceletHandler.java:47)
at com.sun.facelets.compiler.EncodingHandler.apply(EncodingHandler.java:25)
at com.sun.facelets.impl.DefaultFacelet.include(DefaultFacelet.java:248)
at com.sun.facelets.impl.DefaultFacelet.include(DefaultFacelet.java:294)
at com.sun.facelets.impl.DefaultFacelet.include(DefaultFacelet.java:273)
at com.sun.facelets.impl.DefaultFaceletContext.includeFacelet(DefaultFaceletContext.java:140)
at com.sun.facelets.tag.ui.CompositionHandler.apply(CompositionHandler.java:113)
at com.sun.facelets.compiler.NamespaceHandler.apply(NamespaceHandler.java:49)
at com.sun.facelets.compiler.EncodingHandler.apply(EncodingHandler.java:25)
at com.sun.facelets.impl.DefaultFacelet.apply(DefaultFacelet.java:95)
at com.sun.facelets.FaceletViewHandler.buildView(FaceletViewHandler.java:524)
at com.sun.facelets.FaceletViewHandler.renderView(FaceletViewHandler.java:567)
at org.ajax4jsf.application.ViewHandlerWrapper.renderView(ViewHandlerWrapper.java:100)
at org.ajax4jsf.application.AjaxViewHandler.renderView(AjaxViewHandler.java:176)
at com.sun.faces.lifecycle.RenderResponsePhase.execute(RenderResponsePhase.java:106)
at com.sun.faces.lifecycle.LifecycleImpl.phase(LifecycleImpl.java:251)
at com.sun.faces.lifecycle.LifecycleImpl.render(LifecycleImpl.java:144)

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The issue is actually quite simple – you used a class attribute on a non-html element. I always get it when I translate our designer’s pages to JSF:
[cc lang="java"]

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See the problem? the <s:div> element actually requires astyleClass attribute, not aclass.
[cc lang="java"]

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This entry was posted in Java and tagged Facelets, Seam on May 15, 2010.

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