How do you customize the label for s:selectItems

[jim.barrows]

My
selectItems value="myVal" var="myVar" label="mylabel"
tag, needs to have a customized label.  My collection contains multiple different classes, and the label value will change depending on the class. 
I've tried facets and h:outputText, any other way to get selectItems to customize the label?

[stephen]

Your description is a little vague, so I'm not sure if I understand  the problem correctly.
IMHO you should have a common interface for your entities (actually you don't even need the interface as long as each class has a getLabel() method).

If that won't do I guess you can always have a helper method like

<s:selectItems value="#{myVal}" var="myVar" label="#{someBean.getLabel(myVar)}"/>

You could define an EL function for that getLabel method, but I usually have an application scoped seam componente utils for such methods.

[jim.barrows]

I have a collection of different classes that can be selected.  Some need one getter called, the others may need two different getters to display as a label.  I just need to be able to do something like rendered = #{ beanName.class.simpleName = 'ClassName'} 
I'll try it the way you suggest.  I was hoping I was missing something on the tag though. :)
I'm of the models shouldn't have anything that relates to the view in them camp, and these are all model objects in the list. 

[stephen]

Hm, now that I saw your last post, I think this should indeed work, too (though it doesn't feel quite right, either)

<s:selectItems value="#{myVal}" var="myVar" label="#{myVar.class.simpleName == 'LabeledEntity' ? myVar.getLabel(myVar)} : myVar.getName()"/>

You can nest the ternary operator to err, increase flexibility (while decreasing readability).