Can't choose value from rich select with enableManualInput if value is substring of another value

[hr6134]

I have rich:select component with enableManualInput set "true".

<rich:select value="#{productBean.item.cargoType}" 
             enableManualInput="true" 
             converter="#{cargoTypeSelectConverter}"> 
     <f:selectItems value="#{productBean.cargoTypes}" 
                    var="cargo" 
                    itemLabel="#{cargo.name}"/> 
</rich:select>

cargoTypes list contains next values: "gazoline", "gazoline class A", "gazoline class B". If I try to select row "gazoline" will be selected row "gazoline class A". Any other rows selected without problem. So, it appear only if I try to select row which is substring of another. If we change "gazoline" to "gazoline class C", everything will be fine.

Any suggestions how I can fix it?

I use richfaces 4.2.3.Final

[hr6134]

I'm read richfaces source a little and maybe I found why this bug appear.

First of all is __save function in select.js (richfaces component repos). We have 2 different paths based on this.enableManualInput is true or false. As I say, bug reproduced only if this option is on. In this case we call

__getClientItemFromCache(inputLabel).
if (this.enableManualInput) {
    clientSelectItem = this.__getClientItemFromCache(inputLabel);
} else {
    clientSelectItem = this.__getClientItem(inputLabel);
}

In inputLabel is 'gasoline' and we have it in cache (list of 4 items). If we step into __getClientItemFromCache we see that it takes only fist element of list (anyway, why it takes just first element?) and unfortunately it's not "our" element.

var items = this.cache.getItems(inputLabel, this.filterFunction);

if (items && items.length > 0) {
var first = $(items[0]);
$.each(this.clientSelectItems, function() {
    if (this.id == first.attr("id")) {
        label = this.label;
        value = this.value;
        return false;
    }
});

So, here 2 way to solve the problem: clear cache before method call, or use __getClientItem(inputLabel) as we do when enableManualInput is off.

I'm not strong in JavaScript, english , and, that importantly, I'm not strong in richfaces sources. It will be a pleasure if some of devs look at this code and write some words to us.

[bleathem]

This sounds vaguely familiar.  Can you try a recent version of RichFaces to see if it's been fixed already?

[hr6134]

Yes. I already found this issue in bug tracker:

[RF-12613] rich:select with enablemanualinput selects wrong items - JBoss Issue Tracker

And it's still unresolved.