Hey folks,

I know there are a number of posts on rich:tree, but couldn't find anything to answer the problem. I cannot get data from tree nodes passed to events to get the data for the selected node. I don't know whether it can be done using the page side tree definition, or whether I have to go through the process of defining the tree model on the server side by a model object implementing the TreeNode interface?

I have a rich:tree, and use the recursive tree nodes adapter to get my nodes in the tree. My tree is displaying fine and it works nicely.

I have a set of security categories which are defined recursively (a category has a parent category) and each category has none or more security rights. I have the following in my xhtml file :

<rich:tree switchType="client" reRender="tabUsers" ajaxSubmitSelection="true" >

 <rich:recursiveTreeNodesAdaptor nodes="#{v_node.categories}"
 roots="#{securityCategories}" var="v_node">

 <rich:treeNode iconLeaf="/img/iconFolder.gif">
 <h:outputText value="#{v_node.description}"></h:outputText>
 </rich:treeNode>

 <rich:treeNodesAdaptor nodes="#{v_node.rights}" var="v_rightNode">
 <rich:treeNode iconLeaf="/img/padlock.gif" nodeSelectListener="#{userRightAssignment.userRightNodeSelected}">
 <h:outputText value="#{v_rightNode.description}" />
 </rich:treeNode>
 </rich:treeNodesAdaptor>

 </rich:recursiveTreeNodesAdaptor>

</rich:tree>

This displays just fine and my select listener "userRightNodeSelected" is defined as :

 public void userRightNodeSelected(NodeSelectedEvent event) {

 UITreeNode node = null;
 node = (UITreeNode) event.getComponent();

 if (node == null) {
 return;
 }

 Object selectedData = node.getData();

 if (selectedData instanceof UserRight) {
 log.debug("Setting User Right");
 setSelectedUserRight((UserRight) selectedData);
 } else {
 log.debug("Nulling User Right");
 setSelectedUserRight(null);
 }
 log.debug("User right is now #0", selectedUserRight);
 }

The event is called and the node obtained is an HtmlTreeNode. When I call getData(), I get null every time.

The question is how do I attach data (the Category or UserRight) to the tree node and can it be done automatically with using recursive tree nodes adapter, or do I have to create the tree based on TreeNode classes using the Model?

Cheers,

Andy