How obtaining data from a select box

[haefti]

Hi!
I'm pretty new to Seam and try to go through the book and the examples.
No I have a problem. I wonder how I can display data from a database table in a select box which allows me to choose one element and edit this entry.
I tried

<h:selectOneListbox>

for the select element
and

<s:selectItems>
<s:convertEntity>

for the data which works but as I read here several times here <s:selectItems> lacks an itemValue attribute so the value attribute of the rendered option elements can not be set to the id of the displayed data for example.
I think this is necessary for me if I want to choose one item and use the chosen id as parameter to modify the selected element.

Does anyone have an idea or an alternative way to display data in a select box and choose an item?

Thanks!

Haefti

[pmuir]

Why do you need the id? Sounds like you don't to me.

itemValue is present in CVS, as is the possibility to override the output from s:convertEntity so will be in the 2.0.1 release.

[haefti]

Why do you need the id? Sounds like you don't to me.

Hm, but how do I get the selected element?
To compare it to examples from the book (from Michael Yuan), is it injected just like the example with the data table?
So if I have a list of Person objects in the select box, can I refer to the selected Person in the ManagerAction just like the way in the integration example via @DataModelSelection?

itemValue is present in CVS, as is the possibility to override the output from s:convertEntity so will be in the 2.0.1 release.

Due to JBoss version restriction I'm forced to use Seam 1.2 at the moment.

Thanks!

Haefti

[pmuir]

Take a look at the ui example, it has many examples of using this. It's just like any input componet, you use a value binding to the model, and JSF takes care of updating the model for you.