SuggestionBox and Objects, rather than strings

[james_hays]

Hello, I've been playing with <h:inputText and <rich:suggestionbox trying to make the suggestionbox update a bean that back the inputText box, rather than just working with Strings.

Here is my code.

<label>Proposal No.:
 <a4j:region id="r_proposal">
 <h:inputText id="proposal" value="#{profileRecord.proposal.projId}" />
 <rich:suggestionbox for="proposal" ignoreDupResponses="true" minChars="3"
 suggestionAction="#{newProfileRecord.autoCompleteProposals}"
 ajaxSingle="true" var="proposal" fetchValue="#{proposal.projId}"
 width="500" height="200" status="proposal_status">
 <h:column>
 <h:outputText value="#{proposal.projId}"/>
 </h:column>
 <h:column>
 <h:outputText value="#{proposal.proposalName}"/>
 </h:column>
 </rich:suggestionbox>
 </a4j:region>
</label>
<a4j:status id="proposal_status" for="r_proposal">
 <f:facet name="start"> <h:graphicImage width="12px" height="12px" url="/images/Spinner_Small.gif"/></f:facet>
</a4j:status>

As expected, when I type in the text field, a suggestionBox appears. When I choose a record from the suggestionBox, is there a way to update a bean on the backing SFSB of the page? Then, instead of updating the text of the textField, I can update a Bean and then reRender my textField.


Thanks,
James

[james_hays]

Essentially, I need to have the same functionality as if I had used a dropdown box and used a4j's support component for updating a bean and rerendering a component.

Unfortunately, I can't use a dropdown here due to the size of the list.

Thanks.

[max.katz]

If I understand you correctly, you can use <a4j:support> inside the rich:suggestionBox, for example:

<rich:suggestionbox for="proposal" ignoreDupResponses="true" minChars="3"

<rich:suggestionAction="#{newProfileRecord.autoCompleteProposals}"
 ajaxSingle="true" var="proposal" fetchValue="#{proposal.projId}"
 width="500" height="200" status="proposal_status">
 <h:column>
 <h:outputText value="#{proposal.projId}"/>
 </h:column>
 <h:column>
 <h:outputText value="#{proposal.proposalName}"/>
 </h:column>
 <a4j:support event="onselect" action=".." reRender=".."/>
 </rich:suggestionbox>

[max.katz]

Sorry about pasting the code incorrectly...

[james_hays]

But what value is injected into which bean?
Essentially, I want the proposal object that is present when creating the list when I click on it.

[max.katz]

I'm not sure if I understand you completely but you have only one input field on a page (proposal), so its value will be injected.