2 Replies Latest reply on Aug 30, 2007 2:13 AM by wise_guybg

    UnsupportedOperationException when using h:selectManyListbox

    wise_guybg

      Hi,

      I receive an UnsupportedOperationException when I try to call

      entityManager.merge(exam)


      Here is a part of the stack trace:
      java.util.AbstractList.clear(AbstractList.java:217)
      org.hibernate.type.CollectionType.replaceElements(CollectionType.java:445)
      org.hibernate.type.CollectionType.replace(CollectionType.java:524)
      org.hibernate.type.TypeFactory.replace(TypeFactory.java:482)
      org.hibernate.event.def.DefaultMergeEventListener.copyValues(DefaultMergeEventListener.java:340)
      org.hibernate.event.def.DefaultMergeEventListener.entityIsPersistent(DefaultMergeEventListener.java:153)
      org.hibernate.event.def.DefaultMergeEventListener.onMerge(DefaultMergeEventListener.java:126)


      And a part of the JSF code:
      <h:selectManyListbox id="providerList" value="#{exam.providerList}" styleClass="field" required="true">
       <s:selectItems value="#{providers}" var="p" label="#{p.name}"/>
       <s:convertEntity />
      </h:selectManyListbox>


      Where "providers" is received from a @Factory method and exam.providerList is used with a getter/setter for the property
      List<Provider> providerList

      of the Exam entity.

      I found that setProviderList() is called with an argument of type Arrays$ArrayList which is immutable and does not override AbstractList.remove(). This is the reason for the exception to occur.

      I wanted to ask if some has seen the same problem and knows the solution. Maybe there is something else that I'm not doing right.

      I have also found a workaround which I consider very ugly. What I did was to make a modification to setProviderList() so that it recognizes Arrays$ArrayList and create a new ArrayList from it.

      Any comments? Thanks in advance...