Question

I am using rich faces select component.
I want dynamic values when user manually type some thing in the select component.

<rich:select enableManualInput="true" defaultLabel="start typing for select" value="#{supplierSearchBean.userInput}">
                        <a4j:ajax event="keyup" execute="@this" listener="#{supplierSearchBean.userInputChange}"/>
                        <f:selectItems value="#{supplierSearchBean.selectOptions}" />
                        </rich:select> 

Java code as follows

public void userInputChange(ActionEvent  ae){
       Map map = ae.getComponent().getAttributes();
       System.out.println(map.toString());

   }


 public void setUserInput(String userInput) {
       System.out.println("userINput = " + userInput);
       this.userInput = userInput;
   }

Here i found 2 issues
1st: setUserINput always print empty string when user type value
2nd: listener method never get call.

any help ?

Answer 1

The problem is most probably that there is no selected value while the user types, and this component restricts the allowed values to the specified select items. A partial input is thus not valid and cannot be bound to your bean.

I think you could get the expected behavior if you use a rich:autocomplete instead. However, if you want to restrict the allowed values, maybe you can keep your rich:select and listen for the selectitem event.