Autocomplete and selected item

[reaver]

Hello,

I am in the process of migrating a RichFaces webapp from 3.3.3 to 4.0.0 (I'm using 4.0.0.CR1). Right now I'm struggling a little bit with autocomplete field - I'm trying to somehow obtain the selected item's value, so that it could be processed in JavaScript.

Previously I had a rich:suggestionbox, and used suggestion.getSelectedItems()[0], and I had access to the whole selected object. However, the new rich:autocomplete doesn't seem to have such method or property, at least not the one know of.

Do you know if there's any way I could obtain selected items?

Thanks in advance!

Rognvald Eaversen

[boy18nj]

use the javascript method, getValue() to get the selected value.

[reaver]

Actually I wanted to access the whole object behind the selection (to get some other properties, than the displayed ones). The one that is part of the collection returned by method specified in autocompleteMethod attribute. The getValue() would return the value that is currently visible in the autocomplete field.

[ilya_shaikovsky]

http://in.relation.to/Bloggers/RichFaces4OverviewPartIVInputsComponents

We do not want to support functionality unnatural for input by design. So we split the SB to select and autocomplete and will improve select instead in future versions.

[reaver]

Ok, then I will probably go for the select. Thank you!