The rowEdit
and cellEdit
events does by design inside the table not update/re-render anything else than the current row, even not when explicitly specified in update
attribute. It’s the consequence of PrimeFaces’ a bit overzealous attempt to minimize the response size. This makes sense in most of the cases, but not in specifically your case. It’s worth an issue report.
In the meanwhile, until they fix this behavior, your best bet is using <p:remoteCommand>
to invoke the desired listener method and perform a full update of the table.
Rewrite
<p:dataTable ...>
<p:ajax event="cellEdit" listener="#{tableBean.onCellEdit}" update=":testForm:testContainer" />
...
</p:dataTable>
to
<p:remoteCommand name="onCellEdit" action="#{tableBean.onCellEdit}" update="testContainer" />
<p:dataTable ...>
<p:ajax event="cellEdit" oncomplete="onCellEdit()" />
...
</p:dataTable>