We have a collection of checkboxes. Some of the checkboxes represent a mandatory option (configured in a table) and must be selected and the user should not be able to uncheck the checkbox.
Right now we implemented this by creating a SelectItem collection and setting the mandatory selectItems disabled ("selectItem.setDisabled = true") in code. We also create a selected values list.
selectableCategories = new SelectItem[categories.size()];
selectedCategories = new ArrayList<String>();
for (int i = 0; i < categories.size(); i++) {
Category category = categories.get(i);
selectableCategories[ i ] = new SelectItem();
selectableCategories[ i ].setLabel(category.getDescription());
selectableCategories[ i ].setValue(category.getId());
selectableCategories[ i ].setDisabled(category.isMandatory());
if (category.isSelected()) {
selectedCategories.add(category.getId());
}
}
and the managingbean has the following methods:
public SelectItem[] getCategories() {
return selectableCategories;
}
public List<String> getSelect() {
return selectedCategories;
}
public void setSelect(List<String> selectedCategoryIds) {
...
}
and the page code is:
<form ....
<h:selectManyCheckbox disabledClass="selectManyCheckbox_Disabled" styleClass="selectManyCheckbox" id="checkbox1" layout="pageDirection" value="#{projectBean.select}">
<f:selectItems value="#{projectBean.categories}" />
</h:selectManyCheckbox>
... /form
The form contains other text input fields. Now when i submit the form and there are validation errors the checked state of the disabled checkbox is not restored. My backingbean is not called because the validation phase prevents that so i am not able to restore the checked state on the mandatory/disabled checkbox.
It looks like the disabled checkbox state, which should be 'checked', is ignored by the save/restore of the form.
Does anyone know how to restore the checked state on the disabled checkbox when a validation error occurs ?
(Using richfaces 3.3.2.SR1)
