Hi Josh, there is the method addAll(Collection, String, String) which is pretty handy for initializing Select controls.
http://click.apache.org/docs/click-api/org/apache/click/control/Select.html#addAll(java.util.Collection, java.lang.String, java.lang.String) regards Malcolm Edgar On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 6:10 PM, Josh Kamau <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks Gilberto; > > I was already doing according to the examples. I was just wondering if there > is a more automatic way of initializing a select using a list of object > without having to loop through the list and adding options. > > Josh. > > > On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 5:55 AM, Gilberto <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi, Josh! >> >> On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 5:52 AM, Josh Kamau <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Hi guys; >> > >> > When i have an object say User, that has an association another object >> > say, >> > Role, I want to display the list of roles in a dropdown. >> > >> > Do i have to get my roles and then construct option objects ? >> > >> > Is there a way the select component construct the options based on the >> > List >> > of objects passed through the data provider? >> > >> >> The docs about select[1] has some goods examples. I've done some >> experiments using JPA[2], maybe it could help as well. >> >> Gilberto >> >> [1] >> http://click.apache.org/docs/click-api/org/apache/click/control/Select.html >> [2] >> http://code.google.com/p/construtor/source/browse/trunk/park-samples/park-jpa/src/main/java/park/web/page/EditVehicle.java > >
