Hi,
In my jsf page, I use a h:selectOneMenu which contains a f:selectItems.
The attribute value of the selectItems element is a list which is
populated from a backing bean. The jsf snippet is like this:
<h:selectOneMenu id="selectList" value="#{backingBean.selectedHotel}">
<f:selectItems value="#{backingBean.selectionList}"
rendered="#{backingBean.selectionList != null}"/>
</h:selectOneMenu>
My problem is that I want to associate an object (Hotel, which has many
metadata) with this selectionList. The drop down list will show the name
(String) of the Hotel, but when selecting an item from the list I want
to get a reference to the appropriate object (Hotel).
In my backingBean I have
selectionList = new ArrayList();
Which is populated through a for loop like this:
selectionList.add(new SelectItem(Hotel));
I get an error indicating that I have to use a converter, as the
SelectItem isn't a String.
Is there an alternative to using a converter?
Isn't there a similar mechanism to this used by the datatable, which is
bind to a set of objects?
