On further investigation, the values aren't being separated after all. What is added to the textfield is what is submitted in the form.
Is it possible to submit a different value than just the display text? thanks, Steve On 21/12/2009, at 1:54 PM, Steve Swinsburg wrote: > Nevermind. I ended up going with this approach where I could separate the > values: > > http://cwiki.apache.org/WICKET/autocomplete-using-a-wicket-model.html > > I will add my code snippet to the page. > > cheers, > Steve > > On 21/12/2009, at 11:57 AM, Steve Swinsburg wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I am using ObjectAutoCompleteField from WicketStuff and it looks like what I >> need for my scenario: >> >> I have an object list with a bunch of fields and when the user searches, it >> needs to match on a certain field and display the list of matches. The >> examples do this with a Car object with an Integer field for the ID and a >> String for the car name. >> >> However, there seems to be no way to tell it *what* fields to use in the >> supplied object. You can only give the component the Type of fields to look >> up, and it gets the field to use by reflection. This assumes only one field >> in that object will be of that Type. >> >> ie >> >> How could I make it would with a list of these objects: >> >> class Person { >> >> String userId; >> String displayName; >> ... >> >> } >> >> Giving the ObjectAutoCompleteField the types <Person,String> won't work, it >> won't know what field to use. >> >> >> List<Person> persons = getPersons(); >> >> ObjectAutoCompleteBuilder<Person,String> builder = new >> ObjectAutoCompleteBuilder<Person,String>( >> new AutoCompletionChoicesProvider<User>() { >> public Iterator<Person> getChoices(String input) { >> List<Person> subSet = getPersonSubSet(persons, >> input); >> return subSet.iterator(); >> } >> } >> ); >> ObjectAutoCompleteField toField = builder.build("toField", new >> Model<String>()); >> form.add(toField); >> >> >> Any ideas? >> >> thanks, >> Steve >
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