I'm using Seam 1.1.6, myfaces 1.1.4, EntityConverter 0.1 from the wiki page. The Seam managed EntityManagerFactory is set up correctly.
Here's the problem: When noSelectionLabel is specified UISelectItems ends up using NoSelectionConverter for all the User objects in the list instead of using EntityConverter. When the form is posted, the values for the select are the 'toString()' of the User entity, which EntityConverter doesn't understand.
Anyone else have this problem? Is it fixed in 1.2? Should I even bother with noSelectionLabel and EntityConverter?
Here's the view code:
<h:selectOneMenu id="theSelect" value="#{myBean.selectedUser}">
<s:selectItems value="#{myBean.users}" var="user"
noSelectionLabel="Select a user..." label="#{user.name}"/>
<ec:convertEntity/>
</h:selectOneMenu>
Here's the SSB:
@Name("myBean")
@Stateful
@Logging
public class TestBean implements TestLocal
{
@PersistenceContext
private EntityManager em;
private List<User> users;
private User selectedUser;
public List<User> getUsers()
{
if (users == null)
{
Query q = em.createQuery("select t from User t join t.roles r where r = :role");
q.setParameter("role", Role.SPECIAL_ROLE);
//noinspection unchecked
users = q.getResultList();
}
return users;
}
public User getSelectedUser()
{
return selectedUser;
}
public void setSelectedUser(User selectedUser)
{
this.selectedUser = selectedUser;
}
@Destroy
@Remove
public void destroy()
{
}
}
