selectManyCheckbox
kgoedert Sep 19, 2007 10:24 AMHi,
I´m trying to populate a selectManyCheckbox and I´m getting the following exception:
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Expected a child component type of UISelectItem/UISelectItems for component type javax.faces.SelectMany(j_id47). Found null. at com.sun.faces.renderkit.RenderKitUtils.getSelectItems(RenderKitUtils.java:357) at com.sun.faces.renderkit.html_basic.SelectManyCheckboxListRenderer.encodeEnd(SelectManyCheckboxListRenderer.java:103) at javax.faces.component.UIComponentBase.encodeEnd(UIComponentBase.java:836) at javax.faces.component.UIComponent.encodeAll(UIComponent.java:896) at javax.faces.render.Renderer.encodeChildren(Renderer.java:137) at javax.faces.component.UIComponentBase.encodeChildren(UIComponentBase.java:812) at org.ajax4jsf.renderkit.RendererBase.renderChild(RendererBase.java:282) at org.ajax4jsf.renderkit.RendererBase.renderChildren(RendererBase.java:262) at org.richfaces.renderkit.html.PanelRenderer.doEncodeChildren(PanelRenderer.java:199) at org.richfaces.renderkit.html.PanelRenderer.doEncodeChildren(PanelRenderer.java:194) at org.ajax4jsf.renderkit.RendererBase.encodeChildren(RendererBase.java:121) at javax.faces.component.UIComponentBase.encodeChildren(UIComponentBase.java:812) at org.ajax4jsf.renderkit.RendererBase.renderChild(RendererBase.java:282) at org.ajax4jsf.renderkit.RendererBase.renderChildren(RendererBase.java:262) at org.richfaces.renderkit.TabRendererBase.encodeChildren(TabRendererBase.java:113) at javax.faces.component.UIComponentBase.encodeChildren(UIComponentBase.java:812) at org.ajax4jsf.renderkit.RendererBase.renderChild(RendererBase.java:282) at org.ajax4jsf.renderkit.RendererBase.renderChildren(RendererBase.java:262) at org.richfaces.renderkit.html.TabPanelRenderer.doEncodeChildren(TabPanelRenderer.java:266) at org.richfaces.renderkit.html.TabPanelRenderer.doEncodeChildren(TabPanelRenderer.java:261) at org.ajax4jsf.renderkit.RendererBase.encodeChildren(RendererBase.java:121) at javax.faces.component.UIComponentBase.encodeChildren(UIComponentBase.java:812) at javax.faces.component.UIComponent.encodeAll(UIComponent.java:886) at javax.faces.component.UIComponent.encodeAll(UIComponent.java:892) at com.sun.facelets.FaceletViewHandler.renderView(FaceletViewHandler.java:577) at org.ajax4jsf.application.ViewHandlerWrapper.renderView(ViewHandlerWrapper.java:108) at org.ajax4jsf.application.AjaxViewHandler.renderView(AjaxViewHandler.java:216) at com.sun.faces.lifecycle.RenderResponsePhase.execute(RenderResponsePhase.java:106) at com.sun.faces.lifecycle.LifecycleImpl.phase(LifecycleImpl.java:251) at com.sun.faces.lifecycle.LifecycleImpl.render(LifecycleImpl.java:144) at javax.faces.webapp.FacesServlet.service(FacesServlet.java:245) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:290) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206) at org.jboss.seam.web.ExceptionFilter.doFilter(ExceptionFilter.java:64) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:235) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206) at org.jboss.seam.web.RedirectFilter.doFilter(RedirectFilter.java:44) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:235) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206) at org.ajax4jsf.webapp.BaseXMLFilter.doXmlFilter(BaseXMLFilter.java:141) at org.ajax4jsf.webapp.BaseFilter.doFilter(BaseFilter.java:281) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:235) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206) at org.jboss.web.tomcat.filters.ReplyHeaderFilter.doFilter(ReplyHeaderFilter.java:96) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:235) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:230) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:175) at org.jboss.web.tomcat.security.SecurityAssociationValve.invoke(SecurityAssociationValve.java:179) at org.jboss.web.tomcat.security.JaccContextValve.invoke(JaccContextValve.java:84) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:128) at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:104) at org.jboss.web.tomcat.service.jca.CachedConnectionValve.invoke(CachedConnectionValve.java:157) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:109) at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:241) at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:844) at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.process(Http11Protocol.java:580) at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.JIoEndpoint$Worker.run(JIoEndpoint.java:447) at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
In my page I have:
<h:selectManyCheckbox value="#{company.category}" required="true"> <s:selectItems value="#{companyGeneralAction.categories}" var="cat" label="#{cat.name}"/> <s:convertEntity/> </h:selectManyCheckbox> My "company" bean has an attribute like this: private Set<EntityCategory> category; The EntityCategory is a entity bean like this: @Name("entityCategory") @Entity public class EntityCategory implements Serializable { private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L; private Long id; private String name; private Set<Company> entity; And in my session bean I have: @Name("companyGeneralAction") @Stateful @Scope(ScopeType.SESSION) public class CompanyAction implements ICompanyAction { @In(required = false) @DataModelSelection @Out(required = false) private Company company; @In(required = false) private RegistrationType registrationType; @Out(required = false) private List<EntityCategory> categories; @DataModel private List<Company> companyList = new ArrayList<Company>(); @In private EntityManager entityManager; What I want is to populate a select many checkbox with all the EntityCategory elements I have in the database. Where I´m going wrong here? Thanks