How to get selected row in suggestionBox component

[Madhav Bhargava]

Hi All,

I am using suggestionBox component in my application which then populates a h:inputText component with the value selected.

Each row is an object of type Data. This Data object contains an ID and a text. The text value is displayed in the datatable that gets generated and shown in the popup DIV section which gets populated using Ajax request.

The text value is then populated in the input text component using fetchValue attribute. The problem is that in the backing bean i will want the ID as the ID is actually the database identifier for the value and will then be used in creation of query.

How do i get a selected row in the backing bean so that i can then extract the ID from the same.

Following is the code:

<h:inputText value="#{suggestionBox.property}" id="text" />

<rich:suggestionbox id="suggestionBoxId" for="text" tokens=""
 rules="#{suggestionBox.rules}"
 suggestionAction="#{suggestionBox.autocomplete}" var="result"
 fetchValue="#{result.text}" rows="#{suggestionBox.intRows}"
 first="#{suggestionBox.intFirst}"
 minChars="#{suggestionBox.minchars}"
 shadowOpacity="#{suggestionBox.shadowOpacity}"
 border="#{suggestionBox.border}" width="#{suggestionBox.width}"
 height="#{suggestionBox.height}"
 shadowDepth="#{suggestionBox.shadowDepth}"
 cellpadding="#{suggestionBox.cellpadding}" oncomplete="">
 <h:column>
 <h:outputText value="#{result.text}" />
 </h:column>
</rich:suggestionbox>

This essentially the same code which is there in the examples in the demo

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Madhav

[Amol Somani]

Hi..
I am looking for the same thing...I tried many a ways but no use...
Please let me know if got any solution...

Thanks,
Amol.

[Amol Somani]

Hi...
Can anyone please help me out for this problem or else I would have to switch from RichFaces to IceFaces(which i would not like). Please tell me any solution you got for this problem.

Thanks,
Amol.

[Sergey Smirnov]

What ID you will use in case of user types the value manually, but not selects it from the suggestionBox list?

If you want to have only value from the list, it should be a h:selectOneListbox where desire functionality presents. suggestionBox just did not designed for your use case. suggestionBox is a helper for quick text typing.

[Amol Somani]

Hi Sergey,
If the user types the value manually I would give him error message when the page is submitted.
In ICEFaces, they provided this functionality where you get the ID of the selected value. So i was looking something similar in RichFaces but unfortunately it seems I would have to switch to ICEFaces..

Thanks....
Amol.