selectManyCheckbox getting the selected values

[mbakkali]

I have the following issue:

Each user has roles.
I want the admnistrator to be able to set the roles
for everyone.

I have a UserAdminAction that contains:

@Stateful
@Scope(ScopeType.SESSION)
@Name("userAdmin")
public class UserAdminAction implements UserAdmin {
List<String> availableRoles;
List<String> selectedRoles;
...
}

On the JSF, I have the following:

<h:selectManyCheckbox value="#{userAdmin.selectedRoles}" style="border-top: 0px" >
<s:selectItems value="#{userAdmin.availableRoles}" var="r" itemValue="#{r}" label="#{r}" />
</h:selectManyCheckbox>

The getSelectedRoles() method returns a List with the
roles that the user has already... this works fine
and the roles that the user already has are checked.

The problem is when I add new roles (i.e. I select them),
then the selectedRoles is not updated.

As you have noticed the List is a list of String.
Do I still need a converter?

Any idea?

[dhinojosa]

If role is an already established entity, then yes:

<h:selectManyCheckbox value="#{userAdmin.selectedRoles}" style="border-top: 0px" >
   <s:selectItems value="#{userAdmin.availableRoles}" var="r" itemValue="#{r}" label="#{r}" />
   <s:convertEntity/>
</h:selectManyCheckbox>

[mbakkali]

selectedRoles and availableRoles are both Lists of String.

public class UserAdminAction implements UserAdmin {

List<String> availableRoles;
List<String> selectedRoles;

...
}

Also I have tried adding <s:convertEntity /> and this does not work.

Any idea?

[mbakkali]

I actually found out that even if I use a
simple selectOneMenu, this does not work.

<h:selectOneMenu value="#{userAdmin.selectedRole}" >
<s:selectItems value="#{userAdmin.availableRoles}" var="r" label="#{r}" />
</h:selectOneMenu>

This code is inside a <h:form> ... </h:form>

Could there be something wrong with my action?

[mbakkali]

Ok I figured it out.

The problem was that I was using:

<s:button action="#{...}" />

and in the JSF, there was the ajax tag
defined:

xmlns:a="http://richfaces.org/a4j"

Even using

<h:commandButton action="#{...}" />

will will not work if the ajax tag is defined (even if not used).

Should this be considered as a bug?
Or is it a JSF-related issue?

[dhinojosa]

Ooops, I am sorry, I didn't see that they were String.  Well yeah those aren't entities so chuck the convertEntity.

Can you show me everything in the

<h:form>

?