problem with datalist and menuitem

[dave_n_finch1]

Hi,
I am trying to generate a toolbar dynamically. the dropdownmenus are being generated correctly but the menuitems are not.

my code is as follows:

<rich:toolBar width="650px" id="menu" style="margin-bottom:2px">
<rich:dataList var="menuitem" value="#{menu.menuItems}" id="menudata">
<rich:dropDownMenu value="#{menuitem.name}">
<rich:dataList var="menusubitem" value="#{menuitem.children}" id="menusubdata">
<rich:menuItem value="#{menusubitem.name}" />
</rich:dataList>
</rich:dropDownMenu>
</rich:dataList>
</rich:toolBar>

(i know i have no actions but i want to get it rendering first)

i know the data model is fine because the following code works fine:

<rich:dataList var="menuitem" value="#{menu.menuItems}" id="menudata">
<h:outputText value="#{menuitem.name}"></h:outputText>
<rich:dataList var="menusubitem" value="#{menuitem.children}" id="menusubdata">
<h:outputText value="#{menusubitem.name}"></h:outputText>
</rich:dataList>
</rich:dataList>

hard coding the menuitems also works fine.

I am quite new to JSF & Richfaces - i am missing something?

Thanks in advance,
Dave

richfaces 3.1.4
myfaces 1.1.5
tomcat 5.5

[dave_n_finch1]

Hi,

I have established that the symptoms are the same if i use Tomahawk's datalist in place of the datalist provided by richfaces, additionally the same thing still happens if i use the tomahawk jscookMenu with either datalist and t:navigationMenuItem but my menu works correctly if i use t:navigationMenuItems (which does not require the use of a datalist).

this solution is not ideal because the whole point of using richfaces is to take advantage of the ajax features which are not provided by tomahawk.

i am not sure if there is any shared code between richfaces and tomahawk or whether this is a bug (maybe in myfaces rather than richfaces).

anybody got any ideas????

Regards,
Dave