a4j:support, selectOneMenu and Complex Type: throwing Valida

[faraon02]

Hi all,

I have a problem with selectOneMenu component, when I switching the items in selectBox I get the validation error for selectOneMenu component and cannot understand why

 <h:selectOneMenu id="in_type" value="#{bean.type}"
 required="true"
 requiredMessage="type is required">
 <f:selectItems value="#{bean.types}"/>
 <f:converter converterId="typeConverter"/>
 <a4j:support event="onchange" reRender="outtext"/>
 </h:selectOneMenu>

bean.type - its complext Java object, a converter gets the id and returns the complext type object, it works fine and doesnt throw anything,
so I'm confused what could throw a validation exception.

When I change the type bean.type to Long - it works fine.

What could it be?

Environment: RichFaces 3.3.1 GA, MyFaces 1.2.6, Jboss 4.2.3

Cheers.

[nbelaevski]

Hi,

Check that equals/hashCode are implemented in the right way.

[faraon02]

Hi nbelaevski,

great, it works!

Seems I missed something, but I have never seen such requirement in spec/books? Where did it come from?

Again thank you very much!

[nbelaevski]

That's a common requirements for menus working with custom objects.