Its worth mentioning that you can get the String representation of Click
controls by invoking their #toString method. So in the example below you could
build the Decorator return value using a Select control:
public String render(Object object, Context context) {
Select select = ...
...
return select.toString();
}
bob
alwynn wrote:
> Hi
>
> I've got a class that extends FormTable. On the Formtable I add a
> FieldColumn with a Select component as the field.
> I implement a Decorator on this FieldColumn since I need to determine and
> manipulate the selected value based on a request attribute.
>
> The problem is that the selected value is never bound to the form.
> When I call getRowList I retrieve values for the other columns (using
> FieldColumn and Column but no decorator)
>
> It seems like when I implement a Decorator on a FieldColumn the bounding of
> the value gets lost.
>
> I've made sure of the following:
> 1) The FormTable is constructed in the page's onInit
> 2) The Select is bindable with an annotation - not sure if this is actually
> necessary since the FieldColumn itself is bounded.
>
> Here is the code for the FormTable [This all happens in the constructor]
>
> @Bindable
> Select selection = new Select("selection");
> selection.addAll(someCollection,"label","label");
>
> FieldColumn selectionColumn = new
> FieldColumn("admissibilityValue","Admissability", selection);
> selectionColumn .setDecorator(new Decorator() {
> int i = -1;
> public String render(Object object, Context context) {
> MyValueObject vo= (MyValueObject )object;
>
> i++;
> StringBuffer htmlBuffer = new StringBuffer("");
> htmlBuffer.append("<select name='admissibilityValue_" + i + "'
> id='table_form_admissibilityValue_" + i + "' size='1' width='100%'>");
> Iterator<TimeTypeAdmissibility> ttaList = c.iterator();
> TimeTypeAdmissibility selected = null;
> List<String> values = new ArrayList<String>();
>
> while(ttaList.hasNext()) {
> TimeTypeAdmissibility tta = ttaList.next();
> htmlBuffer.append("<option ");
> if (null == context.getRequest().getParameter("admissibilityValue_" +
> i)) {
> if(vo.getAdmissibility().compareTo(tta)==0) {
> htmlBuffer.append("selected='true' ");
>
> }
> } else if
> (tta.getLabel().equalsIgnoreCase(context.getRequest().getParameter("admissibilityValue_"
> + i))) {
> admis.setAttribute("selected", "true");
>
> }
> htmlBuffer.append("value='" + tta.getLabel() + "'>" +tta.getLabel() +
> "</option>");
> }
>
> return htmlBuffer.toString();
> }
> });
>
> addColumn(selection);
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Thank you
> Aly
>
