retaining values in <s:selectItems

[infinity2heaven]

<h:selectOneMenu id="fof" value="#{selectedFof}">    

  <s:selectItems value="#{fofsQuery.resultList}" var="fof" label="#{fof.name}"/>

  <s:convertEntity/>                    

</h:selectOneMenu>

The first time the page loads, it defaults to first value, which is fine. But this page can be redirected from another page, the SFSB of which is outjecting this value to a session scope.

declaration of selectedFof in SFSB (conversation)

@In(required=false) @Out(required=false, scope=ScopeType.SESSION)

private Fof selectedFof;

the value is being injected correctly to the page from the other SFSB (when I print #{selectedFof}, however the dropdown doesn't retain that value.

Any ideas?

[nickarls]

Tried overloading the equals() and hashCode() of your entity and using a SMPC? The selected value is checked against the objects in the list based on the mentioned methods.

[infinity2heaven]

I'm using a SMPC and have hashcode/equals implemented on the the type. I still have the problem.

[javichi_fer]

Can you try the following?

@In(required=false) @Out(required=false, scope=ScopeType.SESSION, value="selectedFof")

[infinity2heaven]

That doesn't make any difference (and I tried) as the default name of the annotated field is selectedFof.

It's frustrating because the value is printed fine but just not selecting it

[vladimir.kovalyuk]

Make sure that equals() works.

[infinity2heaven]

As mentioned earlier, I have overriden hashcode and equals with all the properties, but the selection never retains.

As an exercise, is there a property in s:selectItems that I can manually choose to select a value?

something like

<s:selectItems value="#{fofsQuery.resultList}" 

var="fof" label="#{fof.name} selectedValue=#{selectedValue}"/>

I just want to see if the basic selection works first