Never mind folks.
I found a way to maintain my POJO autonomy and yet be able to add dynamicly generated constraints for my Select drop down.
In my PersonElement, I had to use Constrained interface:
((Constrained) person).addConstraint( new ConstrainedProperty ( "personId").inList( identifiers ) );
Apparently Constrained is another one of the interfaces available to your POJO through MetaData merging.
I find a more elegant way of doing this (adding dynamic content to drop-down list) using this component by Steven contribution to Wikki. (appreciate it much)
http://rifers.org/wiki/display/RIFE/Dynamic+select+using+dynamic+constraints
Sorry for the noise. Somehow I missed that posting in the Wikki.
j.
On 10/13/06,
John Lukar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi folks,
I am trying to generate the values of a Select drop down list dynamicaly in my Element by using
template.getBeanHandler().getFormBuilder().generateField() and adding the inList() constraint.
It doesn't seem to work, unless I add the constraint to the Bean object which requires my bean to "extend Validation".
I didn't want my POJO to do this. I have read docs and combed the mailing list. Below should work but doesn't.
example:
class Person {
String name;
Integer roleId; // Admin or Guess
}
class PersonElement extends Element {
public void initialize() {
Datasource datasource = getPropertyTyped("datasource", Datasource.class);
manager = new ContentQueryManager<Person>(datasource, Person.class );
person= manager.restore( getInputInt("personid"));
......
template = getHtmlTemplate(" person.edit");
}
public void processElement() {
template.addResourceBundle(new ListResourceBundle() {
public Object[][] getContents()
{
return new Object[][] {
{"roleId:1", "ADMIN"},
{"roleId:2", "GUESS"}
};
}});
template.getBeanHandler ().getFormBuilder().generateField(
template,
new ConstrainedProperty ( "roleId").inList("1","2"),
null,
null);
generateForm( template, person );
print(template);
}
In my form.html I use the following:
<r:v name="FORM:SELECT:roleId">id="roleId"</r:v>
This results in a empty Select drop down list.
If instead of using :
template.getBeanHandler().getFormBuilder().generateField(
template,
new ConstrainedProperty ( "roleId").inList("1","2"),
null,
null);
I use:
person.addConstraint( new ConstrainedProperty ( "roleid").inList("1","2") );
then the dynamic Select drop-down list is properly populated. But that requires that person extend Validation.
What am I missing ?
TIA to all.
j.
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