Maybe you can find it in the PropertyModel for the column? ( http://tapestry.apache.org/5.4/apidocs/org/apache/tapestry5/beaneditor/PropertyModel.html#getPropertyType%28%29 )
-- Chris On Wed, Dec 9, 2015 at 5:10 PM, Davide Vecchi <d...@amc.dk> wrote: > Hi everybody, > > I'm writing a custom component to be used by the Grid component, such that > - in a very few words - when the user clicks on an icon placed in the > header of a column whose datatype is an Enumeration, I show a dropdown > containing all the existing members of that enumeration. > > Tapestry definitely has great support for this kind of things, see f.ex. > the Enum example of the doc for the Select component< > http://tapestry.apache.org/current/apidocs/org/apache/tapestry5/corelib/components/Select.html> > . However in this case I cannot use that approach because I'm not creating > a page but a component that needs to work with specific enums that become > known only at runtime. > > The part where I'm stuck is that I don't know how to retrieve the > java.lang.Class of the enum that is the datatype of my column. Once I have > the Class of the enum I can call Class.getEnumConstants(), obtaining a List > of the members of that particular enum, and pass that list to > SelectModelFactory.create(List<?>, String) to create a SelectModel that I > can reference in the t:model attribute of my <t:select> tag in the template. > > So, is it possible to retrieve the Class of the enum that is the datatype > of a Grid column ? >
