Combobox binding problem

[dracola24]

Hello, I am trying to select the values to make a combobox. This is the code:

<div id="box-categories">
            <b>Filter by topic</b>
            <rich:inplaceSelect id="cat1" binding="#{mycompany.htmlnplaceSelect}" onchange="javascript:refreshResults(); return false;">
                                        <f:selectItems value="#{interfaceContainer.documentFormContainer.selectOnes['cat1'].items}" />
                                </rich:inplaceSelect>
        </div>     

Object mycompany.htmlnplaceSelec  type is HtmlInplaceSelect, when I make getValue() in onselect, I get null value.

I tryed also instead of binfing, value, with the same result.

This the my java code:

public String getStringValue(){
      if ( this.selectOne ==null || this.getSelectOne().getValue()==null)
          return "";
      return this.getSelectOne().getValue().toString();
  }

Any ideas??

Thanks in advance

[nbelaevski]

Hi,

Use "value" attribute to get selected object on server like this <... value="#{bean.selectedObject}" >

[dracola24]

I have try it, but with the same result.

getValue() is still null :s

More ideas please??

Thanks

[nbelaevski]

I should work, please post full page & bean code.

[dracola24]

Page code with your suggest included:

<ui:composition xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
    xmlns:ui="http://java.sun.com/jsf/facelets"
    xmlns:f="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core"
    xmlns:h="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html"
    xmlns:a4j="http://richfaces.org/a4j"
     xmlns:rich="http://richfaces.org/rich"
    xmlns:sec="http://www.springframework.org/security/facelets/tags"    
>

    <nav><a4j:outputPanel id="navigation" >
        <div id="box-categories">
            <b>Filter by topic</b>
            <rich:inplaceSelect id="cat1" value="#{interfaceContainer.documentFormContainer.selectOnes['cat1'].value}" onchange="javascript:refreshResults(); return false;">
                                        <f:selectItems value="#{interfaceContainer.documentFormContainer.selectOnes['cat1'].items}" />
                                </rich:inplaceSelect>
            <b>and subtopic</b>
<rich:comboBox id="cat2" value="#{interfaceContainer.documentFormContainer.selectOnes['cat2'].value}" onchange="javascript:refreshResults();" >
                                        <f:selectItems value="#{interfaceContainer.documentFormContainer.selectOnes['cat2'].items}" />
                                </rich:comboBox>
        </div>       
        </a4j:outputPanel>
    </nav>

</ui:composition>

Java code:

public String getStringValue(){
      if ( this.selectOne ==null || this.getSelectOne().getValue()==null)
          return "";
      return this.getSelectOne().getValue().toString();
  }

Thanks for your answers

[nbelaevski]

What is "interfaceContainer.documentFormContainer.selectOnes['cat1'].value"? Where is "stringValue" used?

Also value needs to be submitted to the server, so you should have form and some submitting component like a4j:commandLink or a4j:support.

[dracola24]

interfaceContainer.documentFormContainer.selectOnes['cat1'].value is a value which is in a solr document, which was indexed before.

Regarding the html code of the page, I get:

<input type="text" value="Guardia"/>

So I need to send 'value' information to the backend, and I do it with this.getSelectOne().getId();, but here is when I get null value.

Thanks for your answers

[nbelaevski]

and I do it with this.getSelectOne().getId();, but here is when I get null value

Can you please explain in more details? Even better, create small example including full code and attach it here. Obtaining input value is pretty straightforward, so I'm not getting why you have problems with it.