well, that was the wrong email address *g* ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andreas Hoegen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "MyFaces Discussion" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, March 27, 2006 8:10 PM Subject: Re: DataTable with SelectOneMenu
> I considered this solution, but I'm afraid my data-structure is a bit to > complicated, to do something like this (it's not as simple as I discribed - > there are some vectors involved and so on ;-) and in addition I shouldn't > solve the problem this way. > > I had related problem with an datatable and checkboxes (instead of a > selectOneMenu) and I could solve this problem with a binding to UIData and > UISelectBoolean. > (You have this binding of your DataTable and you can iterate through its > rows and you can check with the UISelectBoolean in each row, if the checkbox > is checked or not) > I thougth I could solve my actual problem in a similiar way (binding to > UIData and UISelectOne or something like that) - but it doesn't work, like I > thought. > > I would be glad, if anyone could explain, how to do this binding or how to > approach the problem in another way (the datatables model or something). > > But if not, I'll try an approach as you proposed. > > Thank you anyway! > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Greg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "MyFaces Discussion" <[email protected]> > Sent: Monday, March 27, 2006 6:45 PM > Subject: Re: DataTable with SelectOneMenu > > > Thats the point isnt it ? i.e. at the moment you have a many to one > mapping, i.e. multiple instances of a select menu all mapping back to > one bean property. > > I have a similiar problem too, in that the User objects are (ideally) > just provided to me, but as they stand they do not have a 'roleId' > property (or more succinctly a 'isSelected' property). > > For quickness I actually added this property to each User object. > > Since the alternative, as far as I'm aware at the moment, seems to be > to have an intermediate or decorative class object, where you iterate > over the given Users objects and create a new decorative class > instance for each User which will contain this roleId property and use > this new List of objects as the dataTable value binding, which isnt > very elegant but it would seem anything else would be even less > elegant. > > Someone else might know of alternatives. >
