Probably the cleanest solution would be to define an EL function that
converted your Lists into maps.
Creating EL expressions is still ugly under pure Myfaces, however.
On 9/8/05, Rick Reumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What's the best way in JSF/MyFaces to use a List to create a select
> options list? I know the SelectItems can be built from a Map, but it
> doesn't seem to support a list of objects too well. Can I at least
> set them easily looping over my collection manually?
>
> For example in JSTL.. I can creat my options ...
>
> <c:forEach items='${employees}' var='emp'>
> <html:option value="${emp.empID}">${emp.name}</html:option>
> </c:forEach>
>
> Can I do this with a dataList inbetween <h:selectOneMenu > tags?
>
> It would be cool if the selectItems tag supported:
>
> <f:selectItems collection="#{employees}" label="${name} value="${empID}" />
>
> (above would loop over your collection of employees pull out Employee
> and call appropriate getters - getName getEmpID )
>
> --
> Rick
>
