I'm in a similar situation. Basically all of our objects have unique ids. I built a stateful converter that maps the id to the object. The converter lives in the session, and it can't be registered because a registered converter is created new for each request, possibly for each conversion.
On Sat, 15 Jan 2005 16:18:14 -0600, Aaron Bartell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just curious as to how others would implement this example. > > Let's say I have an Order object that has a field called prdCde (product > code). The value for product code that I store in the Order object is > it's unique id. That unique id is associated with a Description in the > PRDCDELUP (Product Code Lookup) table. > > I am displaying a list of Order objects using <h:datatable> and when I > get to the "Product Code" column I want to display the description of > the product code rather than it's unique id, because the unique id will > mean nothing to the user. My thought is to build a custom converter to > do this but am wondering if that is the right direction to go or not. > > I know I could do it other ways, but it seems I would always be messing > with my model objects, making them provide lookups that they should not > have to do (i.e. having the Order object provide a method called > getPrdCdeDescr() just isn't the way I want to go) > > Thoughts? > Aaron Bartell > > -- -Heath Borders-Wing [EMAIL PROTECTED]
