Re: Tapestry Combobox

2014-10-23 Thread Lance Java
I'd just create a wrapper object that can point to either a db entity, or an enum instance. eg: public class Wrapper { private MyEnum myEnum; private DbEntity dbEntity; public String getKey() { return myEnum != null ? myEnum.name() : String.valueOf(dbEntity.getId()); } publ

Re: Tapestry Combobox

2014-10-23 Thread Chris Mylonas
Sloshed hey hehehe :) I'm doing something with a select atm, so here's my 2c on howto do what you want, but I'm using Objects rather than simple enums, but you can make a List of your ENUMTYPE or something equally (un)elegant i guess. In page class you're going to need this stuff pri

Re: Tapestry Combobox

2014-10-23 Thread Sloshed Techie
Hello, Thanks. I had a look before it. Apparently, I can make it work with a simple Enum. Hope I didn't overlook but it doesn't talk about the scenario I'm talking about. Thanks! Niks On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 8:23 PM, George Christman wrote: > Have you seen the following example? > > > http:/

Re: Tapestry Combobox

2014-10-23 Thread George Christman
Have you seen the following example? http://tapestry.apache.org/current/apidocs/org/apache/tapestry5/corelib/components/Select.html On Oct 23, 2014 2:10 PM, "Sloshed Techie" wrote: > Hi, > > Good Afternoon! > > Thanks. Due to some constraints for using only Enum. can you please > elaborate the s

Re: Tapestry Combobox

2014-10-23 Thread Sloshed Techie
Hi, Good Afternoon! Thanks. Due to some constraints for using only Enum. can you please elaborate the step 1. It should be something like the values for select box should be loaded as per the values defined in Enum but with the selected enum value( which is stored in database), should be the def

Re: Tapestry Combobox

2014-10-23 Thread George Christman
1. You can either put all your values in your enum and store the string in the database or 2. build a simple lookup table in the database containing your enum values and create a relationship with your primary table. I would recommend option 2. There would be no need for a value encoder then. It w

Re: Tapestry Combobox

2014-10-23 Thread Thiago H de Paula Figueiredo
On Thu, 23 Oct 2014 05:05:00 -0200, Chris Poulsen wrote: I don't know what you are trying to achieve, but you can always provide your own select model, if you need something more flexible than what the standard coercions provide. (if that was the question?) That's correct, but I guess a Val

Re: Tapestry Combobox

2014-10-23 Thread Chris Poulsen
I don't know what you are trying to achieve, but you can always provide your own select model, if you need something more flexible than what the standard coercions provide. (if that was the question?) -- Chris On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 12:36 AM, Sloshed Techie wrote: > Hello, > > Have just start

Tapestry Combobox

2014-10-22 Thread Sloshed Techie
Hello, Have just started with tapestry and web designing. I try to implement combobox where carstype referring to enum.The selected value gets stored in database. I need a solution where my combobox has the first value as database value and other values from ENUM. Any efficient solution fo