[jboss-user] [JBoss Seam] - selectItems and enums

[Sammy8306]

I can edit a value with an enumerated type in the following way:


  | <h:selectOneMenu value="#{EditEntryComponent.blogEntry_be.category}">
  |   <s:selectItems value="#{EditEntryComponent.values}" var="enum" label="#{enum.label}" noSelectionLabel="Please select : " />
  |   <s:convertEnum />
  | </h:selectOneMenu>
  | 

EditEntryComponent.values points to:


  | public BlogEntry.Enum_category[] getValues() {
  |    return BlogEntry.Enum_category.values();
  | }
  | 

However, I would really like to omit this last function, and retrieve the values from the Enum_category enum directly. Does anybody see a way to express this in EL? I see a couple of problems:

* the Java Enum API exposes values(), which does not conform to the get/set convention: not really a problem, I can generate a getValues() static method in each enum declaration which delegates to values()
* I cannot use enhanced EL in s:selectItems (so it appears at least)
* even if I could, how would I make a call to a static method in EL (using possibly a fully qualified type, i.e. some.package.Enum_category.values() )

If someone sees a possibility or clever solution, please let me know...

(one solution I played with is to create the getValues() in the enum as mentioned, and to use an EL expr. like 'EditEntryComponent.blogEntry_be.category.values'  in s:selectItems, so we retrieve the possible values from an instance. However, in this case I cannot retrieve the possible values if the instance is null...)

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