rich:autocomplete: How to set two hiddenfield?

[fred-at-coding]

Hi guys,

i'm pretty new to Richfaces4.

I'm trying to have the rich:autocomplete tag to work, and when the search is done, for example the search of a editors name, I want to set the ID of the editor selected in a hidden field, as in JQuery it's easy to do.

My code is running fine, as my bean is returning a list of editor and when I select the name of an editor, I can update the autocomplete field. But it's not enought, because my action bean will need th editor ID, not the name. So when the autocomplete has done his job, I want to retreive the ID and set it to an hidden var.

Currently my code is :

  <rich:autocomplete  autocompleteMethod="#{AuthorController.autocompleteSearchEditor}"

                                                                                                    showButton="false"

  mode="cachedAjax"

                                                                                                    attached="true"

                                                                                                    minChars="2"

                                                                                                    autoFill="true"

                                                                                                    layout="table"

  var="autocomplete_editor"

  value="#{AuthorController.currentEditBook.teditor.name}"

  fetchValue="#{autocomplete_editor.name}"

  >

<rich:column>

  <h:graphicImage name="printer_empty.png" library="images"/>

  </rich:column>

  <rich:column>

  <h:outputText value="#{autocomplete_editor.name}"/>

  </rich:column>

  </rich:autocomplete>

is anybody able to help me ?

Thanks !!!

[nbelaevski]

Hi Fred,

Have you checked rich:select component? It allows you to place selected object into model without any additional application code required.

[fred-at-coding]

Hi Nick,

thanks a lot for your reply.

This is a good "workaround" i can use, but it's true that I wanted to try a code like 'a4j:ajax' with the 'oncomplete' event to get the ID retreive and to "store" it in a bean property. If this is not possible, I'll certainly use rich:select.

This may be consuming (in memory) if my rich:select is hosting 10000 entries.

What do you think about it ?

Originaly, I wanted to use autocomplete AJAX because of the "asynchronous" / 'lite' memory consuming.

Thanks again for your reply,

Fred

[boy18nj]

just trying to understand your problem, you are trying to retrieve the id property of autocompleteSearchEditor. if yes can you post its code.

[fred-at-coding]

Hi,

Sorry if i'm not clear.

What i Want to do is simple : searching an editor by it s name, but When selected, store its name in a input text and its ID In an other field.

The autocompleteSearchEditor just return a list of object 'teditor' that is a POJO annoted @entity describing the teditor data in the database.

So when returned, I am able to find the ID from the object returned.

To traduce this in code:

In a form, i have some input fields. One of them is an input tex t and the other is an hidden field.

When searching entering first char of an editor, i ve got a list of selected editors. I can select my editor's name. All is cool.

What is missing, as a functionnality for me, is to be able to store the ID of the editor in a other variable, and when a send my form for processing I can get the editor object from database by its ID.

Am I more clear now ?

Thanks

Fred

PS: here is the code (since I was not on my MAC the first time I wrote my answer)

/**

                     * autocompleteEditor

                     * @param pattern

                     * @return

                     */

                    public List<Teditor> autocompleteSearchEditor(String pattern)

                    {

                              try {

                                        List<Teditor> list = editorEJB.listEditors(pattern);

                                        if (list==null)

                                                  return new ArrayList<Teditor>();

                                        else

                                                  return list;

                              } catch (Exception e) {

                                        return new ArrayList<Teditor>();

                              }

                    }

[boy18nj]

cool I understood this thing. I assume when you say ID it is an property of object/entity teditor.

Already you are using this to get the name of selected editor-

<h:outputText value="#{autocomplete_editor.name}"/>

Why not output the ID value also?

<h:outputText value="#{autocomplete_editor.ID}"/>

And you can make it hidden also if you want.

[fred-at-coding]

because <h:outputText value="#{autocomplete_editor.name}"/> has only a means between the "rich:column" definition.

however, i'll try your idea. If it works, i'll feedback the full solution.