Thanks for your answer. But my issue quite Struts2 specific. Also, it works quite well if I don't use struts 2 type converters (and specify listKey/listValue explicitly in that case).
Gunnar mgainty wrote: > > > I dont believe that is not necessary for V1 > ashttp://struts.apache.org/1.x/struts-taglib/tagreference.html#select > suggests 'value' as the name to compare for marking the option as > *selected* > If the preselection has not changed for V2..then I would suggest using the > value attribute as preselected > Martin______________________________________________Disclaimer and > confidentiality noteEverything in this e-mail and any attachments relates > to the official business of Sender. This transmission is of a confidential > nature and Sender does not endorse distribution to any party other than > intended recipient. Sender does not necessarily endorse content contained > within this transmission.> > > Hi,> > I am using Struts 2.0.11.> > I am > running into an issue when using type converters and pre-populating> > corresponding select boxes. I defined a type converter in> > xwork-conversion.properties and everything works for normal text fields> > (converter is called perfectly). The problem I have occurs when> > pre-populating select boxes. > > Let's assume that I have a class Foo that > has a field 'id'. In my converter> method 'convertToString' will return a > String representation of the id field> (integer) and method > 'convertFromString' will set the 'id' field of Foo.> > This works fine for > text fields (I know the setup may not make perfect> business sense but I > hope it illustrates the problem)> > Let's further assume that I have a > select box with a list of Foos. > > <s:select list="foos" name="foo">> > > To illustrate my propblem I left off the attributes 'listValue' and> > 'listKey'. In this particuliar case shouldn't the type converter> > (implicitly) be called for both value and key?> > Unfortunately the > converter is only called for the 'labels'. The 'values'> are retrieved by > calling toString() on the Foo class which I did not> anticipate to > happen.> > As another work-around I tried this: > > <s:select list="foos" > name="foo" listKey="id">> > Now my list of foos is populated correctly BUT > no value in the select box is> pre-selected, although the field 'foo' has > a matching entry in 'foos'. I am> assuming that the problem might be that > name="foo" is using the converter> and the key is populated by calling > foo.getId() and therefore returning an> integer?> > Is this possibly an > issue and worth opening a Jira ticket or do I miss> something here in my > setup?> > Thanks a lot in advance!> > Regards,> > Gunnar Hillert> > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://www.nabble.com/Issue-with-Type-Conversion-and-Select-Boxes-tf4864875.html#a13921943> > Sent from the Struts - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.> > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------> To > unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional > commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> > _________________________________________________________________ > Connect and share in new ways with Windows Live. > http://www.windowslive.com/connect.html?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_Wave2_newways_112007 > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/-S2--Issue-with-Type-Conversion-and-Select-Boxes-tf4864875.html#a13963484 Sent from the Struts - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
