Objects in rich:comboBox

[andersun]

Hi all,

How can i set Object in non-editable rich:comboBox??

Thanks

[ilya_shaikovsky]

you could try to use your object but you have to define converter in this case

[andersun]

I have following:

Car car = getCar();
...
items.add(new SelectItem(car.getId(), car.getName()));
...

and comboBox views list of Ids, but not car names, and in my Converter i should have Id to get car object

[aaexoun]

Hey Andersun,

i faced the same problem when migrating from normal <h:selectOneMenu> to <rich:comboBox>. Somehow it swaps value and label, so insert the names first and it should be all fine

Car car = getCar();
...
items.add(new SelectItem(car.getName(), car.getId()));
...

[ilya_shaikovsky]

ComboBox - simplified client-side suggestion based component which designed to works only for string values out-of-the-box.

ComboBox gets values from String collection defined in suggestionValues binding or the values could be defined using f:select* tags with value defined. In the second case - coboBox gets only value both for displaying and store result.