Hi Alex,
Expose description and id on your model's object.
>
If I understand what you're saying, this was the problem, we did want the
Component's Model to be i.e. a String, while giving the choices an
id-descr-like bean... But this is not working (must have same object type on
choices and component model), so the code above returns a List of Strings as
choices, and uses a suitable choiceRenderer in order to retrieve
descriptions from the 'description-enhanced' choice model, which consists of
a Map <id, description>...
public final static ChoiceRenderer listRenderer = new
> ChoiceRenderer("description", "id");
>
If i'm not wrong, this one will work when there is no Model object but when
there is one, it will throw out an exception, complaining it doesn't find
property 'id' nor 'description' in class String (which will be the class of
the Component's Model object)..
I don't know If i got your point though,
Thanks!
Xavier
2009/11/9 Alex Rass <a...@itbsllc.com>
> I am a newb here, so I may be way off, but this works for me:
>
> public final static ChoiceRenderer listRenderer = new
> ChoiceRenderer("description", "id");
>
> Expose description and id on your model's object.
>
> And just add the listRenderer to the DDChoice (last param).
> Seems a lot simpler than what you are doing.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Xavier López [mailto:xavil...@gmail.com]
> Sent: Monday, November 09, 2009 9:37 AM
> To: users@wicket.apache.org
> Subject: Re: Combination CompoundPropertyModel and ChoiceRenderer on
> DropDownChoice gives problems
>
> Got it!
>
> Here is the code i got into. Improvements and critics are welcome !
>
> class MappedModel extends Model {
> protected Map map;
> public String getDescription(Object id){
> return (String) map.get(id);
> }
> }
>
> // Localized choices
> final MappedModel countryModel = new MappedModel(){
> public Object getObject() {
> super.map = referenceData.getCountries(getLanguage());
> return new ArrayList(super.map.keySet());
> }
> };
> DropDownChoice ddcCountry= new
> DropDownChoice("country",countryModel);
> ddcCountry.setChoiceRenderer(new IChoiceRenderer() {
> public Object getDisplayValue(Object object) {
> return countryModel.getDescription(object);
> }
> public String getIdValue(Object object, int index) {
> return object.toString();
> }
> });
>
>
> Thanks to everyone on this list not only for the heads up on this one but
> for many more I did not need to ask ;)
>
>
> 2009/11/9 Xavier López <xavil...@gmail.com>
>
> > Hi Sven,
> >
> > Absolutely awesome. So sweet how problems vanish away when you know the
> > right way to address them on Wicket: ).
> >
> > But, what if I had a list of countries in the database (better example
> than
> > gender in this case), with its descriptions in it? Should I store a
> Country
> > entity in my bean, instead of simply and Id (taking into account this
> entity
> > possibly contains the descriptions and other unuseful stuff) ? Could I
> > manage someway, using the countryId's in the ddc's choiceList model, to
> look
> > for those descriptions in i.e. a memory-stored Map ?
> >
> > Thanks a lot!
> > Xavier
> >
> > 2009/11/9 svenmeier <s...@meiers.net>
> >
> >
> >> You want to select one value from a list of values, so obviously
> >> everything
> >> has to have the same type.
> >>
> >> These 'IdDescrBeans' smell like Struts, such constructs are not needed.
> >> What's wrong with the following:
> >>
> >> List<String> genders = new ArrayList<String>();
> >> list.add("M");
> >> list.add("F");
> >> form.add(new DropDownChoice("gender", genders) {
> >> protected boolean localizeDisplayValues() {
> >> return true;
> >> }
> >> });
> >>
> >> Creating an enum would be a nice alternative to strings though.
> >> Put the following keys in you page's property file:
> >>
> >> gender.M = male
> >> gender.F = female
> >>
> >> i18n for free.
> >>
> >> Sven
> >>
> >>
> >> Xavier López-2 wrote:
> >> >
> >> > Hi Ann,
> >> >
> >> > I've also encountered this problem, but with RadioChoice instead of
> >> > DropDownChoice.
> >> >
> >> > This is the thread I started about it:
> >> >
> >> >
> >>
> http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/wicket-users/200911.mbox/browser
> >> >
> >> > After all this thread, I still don't know what should I do to model,
> for
> >> > instance, a gender radioChoice which would be backed by a String
> >> property
> >> > ("M" of "F"), providing a list of choices (multilingual) with
> >> IdDescrBeans
> >> > like you propose.
> >> > Should I change my bean's 'String gender' property to 'IdDescrBean
> >> gender'
> >> > ?
> >> > Why should I store description's information on my model entity ?
> >> >
> >> > Although I agree with having same object's on choices and model when
> >> it's
> >> > about more complex data...
> >> >
> >> > Possible solutions I've thought of so far:
> >> >
> >> > - Ideally, do not use different object types in
> >> compundpropertymodel's
> >> > bean and choice List. Use same object type instead.
> >> > - When using RadioChoice, it works if you substitute it with a
> >> > RadioGroup
> >> > and Radio's, using the 'id' property as the Radio's model and the
> >> > 'description' property as the label's model. However, when it's
> about
> >> > DropDownChoice, I'm clueless about it at the moment (already having
> >> > problems
> >> > with them).
> >> > - Provide a list of choices in which each element is an Id, and
> then
> >> > provide a ChoiceRenderer display expression such that gets the
> proper
> >> > description (I don't like that at all).
> >> > - Modify IdDescrBean so that it returns the 'id' property in its
> >> > 'toString' method, and, assuming the compundpropertymodel's bean
> >> > related
> >> > property is String, provide an implementation for some useless
> method
> >> > ('trim' for example), so that it returns the desctiption. Then, in
> >> the
> >> > ChoiceRenderer, you can set the displayExpression to 'trim()',
> which
> >> > will
> >> > ensure that when the component model's object is a String, this
> error
> >> > will
> >> > not happen (also, it will return the trimmed id as description, but
> >> > that
> >> > will have no effect). But there is more to it, in order to achieve
> >> > AbstractSingleSelectChoice's getModelValue() to identify the
> selected
> >> > choice
> >> > element, it calls 'indexOf' on the Choice List, using the
> >> > compundpropertymodel's bean related property value. That is, it
> >> > searches in
> >> > a List of IdDescrBean a String. Problem is 'indexOf' invokes
> >> > 'searchedElement.equals(choices[i])', which will never return true.
> I
> >> > got it
> >> > to work overriding 'getModelObject' and doing this search with the
> >> > opposite
> >> > comparation (choices[i].equals(searchedElement), and providing a
> >> > suitable
> >> > implementation of 'equals' in the IdDescrBean class... But that's
> >> > extremely
> >> > hacky and ugly, and... it would not work for ListMultipleChoice, as
> >> > getModelValue is final...
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > 2009/11/9 Ann Baert <ann.ba...@tvh.be>
> >> >
> >> >> I've created a jira issue with more information and an example for
> this
> >> >> problem:
> >> >> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/WICKET-2565
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