And thats why i think the wiki example is a bad one. It points people
in the wrong way.
On 5/10/08, John Krasnay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, May 09, 2008 at 06:42:11PM -0700, Michael Mehrle wrote:
>> Thanks for the input, John - but I the plot thickens here. It seems that
>> there is actually a Wicket bug that needs to get fixed. After a lot of
>> tinkering I figured out why I was getting this error. The VERY FIRST
>> TIME my renderer is being called it actually calls getIdValue() with an
>> Integer, not with the Object that I'm using. In my debugger I saw the
>
> This isn't a bug. The integer is coming from your business model.
> DropDownChoice calls getIdValue() with this value so it can pre-select
> the correct option based on your current business object value.
>
> I'll try explaining this again. Maybe this time it will click.
>
> You give a DDC a model and a list of possible values. The type of object
> returned by the model and the type of objects in the list *must* be the
> same. You've already mentioned that your model returns an Integer, so
> you *must* pass a list of Integers, not IntegerSelectChoice or anything
> else.
>
> If you want to display something different than the integer, you have to
> implement some custom code in ChoiceRenderer.getDisplayValue(). Don't
> get hung up on the idea that the value returned has to be a property of
> the objects in your list. It can be anything, such as the
> getString("period_" + object.toString()) in my example.
>
> You are probably used to a Model2 framework like Struts, where you have
> to create lists of key/value pair objects to render <select>s. No need
> for such an artificial structure in Wicket.
>
> Is the light coming on yet?
>
> jk
>
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