entity names in dropdowns?

[seamn00bz]

Hello all, thank you very much for help with components' names, I could go ahead with my project.

I have even coped to create a Seam-based dropdown menu, but I wonder about the HTML code:

<option value="org.xx.yy.State@60ca19">Alabame</option>

Is there a way to hide classes and entites names from the wide, wild world aka WWW? :-)

[dsailer.d.sailer.comcast.net]

what does your UI code look like? THere are s:selectItems examples in the seam example/ui project.

[swd847]

You have to create a custom converter for each entity and use it instead of s:convertEntity. It may also be possible to take the convertEntity code and create your own one based on it, but with encyption on the class name.

[seamn00bz]

I used the example

[seamn00bz]

Thank you.. any idea how to do that? :-)

[dsailer.d.sailer.comcast.net]

I just use <s:convertEntity /> and it works. I'm assuming it uses getId() by default. Otherwise I think seam uses org.jboss.seam.ui.EntityConverter which is a standard faces converter.
(caution: I'm a seam noob)

[dsailer.d.sailer.comcast.net]

something else I learned about this. One of my dropdowns wasn't binding correctly and it turned out I had overriden equals and hashCode on the entity which I assume messed with seam/jsf's ability to match things up.

[pgmjsd]

d sailer wrote on Mar 26, 2009 14:19:


I just use <s:convertEntity /> and it works. I'm assuming it uses getId() by default. Otherwise I think seam uses org.jboss.seam.ui.EntityConverter which is a standard faces converter.
(caution: I'm a seam noob)

Yes, <s:convertEntity> will use the ID of the entity.   If you're getting the java.lang.Object.toString() output in your HTML, then something is definitely wrong.