s:selectItem problem while persisting

[panky_p]

Hi I am trying to save to database the value selected from list but it is saving it as object of selectItem
my xhtml code is

<h:selectOneMenu id="carList" value="#{carBean.carCategory}">
<s:selectItems var="carCategory" value="#{carDetail.carCategoryList}"
label="#{carCategory.label}" noSelectionLabel="Select Car Category..."/>
</h:selectOneMenu>

and my list is

public List<SelectItem> carCategoryList()
{
 get values for car list from database such as Audi, BMW etc
}

it works fine till populating list and retriving data from database as well but in database i want to store it as string "Audi" instead it saves it as object string
javax.faces.model.SelectItem@15817ba

can any one help me how can i store it as an actual string??

Thanks
Panky

[nickarls]

Does the corresponding h:selectItems work?

[lazar.mihai]

nickarls can u please shed some light on what s:selectItems and f:selectItems are doing ?

From what I figure they both return a SelectItem.

I'm trying to make it return a class value and bind it to a componentHome.instance.theclass

[lazar.mihai]

What I've done is like this

Create a new JBoss Seam Project
EAR
Seam 2.0.0.GA
JBoss 4.2.0.GA

Copy paste the entites from ContactList example
Contact
Comment

Seam Reverse Engineer entities from source code

(I'm using a MySQL connection that part works)

Now .. in the Comment List
when selecting New Comment in the CommentEdit.xhtml I'd like to be able to select a contact form a drop down list instead of the default auto-generated way.

If u can make something like this work please post back :D

[nickarls]

Well, if you are juggling entities you might as well use a List and bind to the entityHome.entity and use a convertEntity (remembering to override hashcode() and equals() on the entity id). There are plenty of threads on this.

[panky_p]

Well guys it will create complexity by using convert entity and al that.

I am getting list populated with the data what i want the only problem was i was not getting it stored as string what i want instead it was storing object of select item
so better i used <f:selectItems> and works fine for me.

Thanks for reply
Panky