pickList does not set property on the stateful bean

[emiakoup]

Hello,
i have the following pickList:
...

       <s:decorate id="matchSkillsDecorate" template="display.xhtml">
                <ui:define name="label">Skills:</ui:define>
                <rich:pickList id="pickedSkills" 
                value="#{userRegistration.pickedSkills}" style="width: auto;">
                <s:selectItems id="skills" value="#{skills}" var="skill" label="#{skill.skillDescription}"/>
                <s:convertEntity/>
                </rich:pickList>
        </s:decorate>


... and the following submit
<h:commandButton id="addAndContinueToResume" value="Add and Continue" action="#{userRegistration.addSelectedSkills}"/>

...
now in the stateful bean i have the following:
..

        @DataModel("skills")
        private List<Skill> skills;
       
        private List<Skill> pickedSkills;

...
for pickedSkills i have getters and setters defined. When i render the page, pickList works fine, i can move items from one to another etc. When i submit however, an empty ArrayList comes to
public void setPickeSkills(List<Skill> pickedSkills);
i can't figure this out, for a 2nd day now. Am i doing anyting wrong?

Thank you.

[emiakoup]

Hello I realized i have the same behavior with. h:selectManyListbox. Is it the converter? I also noticed that if i fill #{pickedSkills} with values before rendering the select many listbox in xhtml, those values will be pre-selected (moved in case of a pick list). i am using seam 2.1 cr1, jboss 4.2.3 GA. The bean has the following decalration:

@Name("userRegistration")
@Stateful
public class UserRegistrationAction implements UserRegistration {

@PersistenceContext(EXTENDED)
EntityManager em;

... // other imports

@DataModel("skills", scope=ScopeType.UNSPECIFIED)
private List<Skill> skills;

private List<Skill> pickedSkills;

@Begin
public void setUserType(String userType) {
...

}

... other methods in the middle of conversation

@End
public void cancel() {
...
}

@End
public void confirm() {
...}

... // setters and getters

[emiakoup]

Hello,
i realized i did not place pickList within <h:form> tag.

[sburgula1]

I have my rich:pickList within a <h:panelGrid> <h:form> such as

<h:form>
<h:panelGrid>
<h:outputLabel value="Faculty Name" for="displayFacName" />
                                                                                <rich:pickList value="#{courseSearch.selItemList}"
               removeAllControlLabel="remove all"  
               copyControlLabel="add"  
               removeControlLabel="remove" 
       converter="#{courseSearch.facConverter}" rendered="#courseSearch.resultListFilled}">
           <f:selectItems value="#{courseSearch.pickListResult}"/>
</rich:pickList>
</h:panelGrid>

<h:panelGrid columns="2">
                                                                       
   <s:link action="#{courseSearch.updateCourseOffr()}" value="Save Changes">
        <f:setPropertyActionListener value="#{var}"
        target="#{courseSearch.selectedCourse}" />
        <s:conversationPropagation type="join" />
   </s:link>

<h:commandButton id="Reset" type="reset" value="Reset" />
</h:panelGrid>

If I change the s:link to h:commandButton the backing bean is not getting called.  If I keep it as s:link then my selItemList which is my picked item list, is empty.

Please help and let me know what is wrong.....


thanks
Sai

[sburgula1]

In my  backing bean

I defined the selectItem list as

private List<SelectItem> selItemList= new ArrayList<SelectItem> ();

and I have getters and setters for this.