[richfaces-issues] [JBoss JIRA] Issue Comment Edited: (RF-10943) SuggestionBox: why no "converter" attribute?

[Markus Staab (JIRA)]

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Markus Staab edited comment on RF-10943 at 4/26/11 7:32 AM:
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I wasn't aware of the 4.x way, but it sounds good for me. Nevertheless would it be straightforward to have the converter attribute for this tag, so the input of the user may be transformed to whatever you like (and therefore be passed to the suggestion action)

What do you mean by "parameterized method"?

      was (Author: maggus):
    I wasn't aware of the 4.x way, but it sounds good for me.

What do you mean by "parameterized method"?
  
> SuggestionBox: why no "converter" attribute?
> --------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: RF-10943
>                 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/RF-10943
>             Project: RichFaces
>          Issue Type: Bug
>      Security Level: Public(Everyone can see) 
>    Affects Versions: 3.3.1
>            Reporter: Markus Staab
>            Assignee: Nick Belaevski
>
> We want to use a converter for the rich:suggestionbox.
> Our use-case is the following:
> we try to develop a component which we use for city and postal suggestions, depending on a country.
> So we use 1 selectMenu and 2 inputText fields in a facelet.
> For the suggestions of this component we have a dedicated backing bean, which offeres the suggestionActions.
> In the suggestionActions we need information about the AddressModell which backs whole address-sections in our applications (city +postal+country are only a small part of such an model).
> Our idea was to use a converter to set the city/postal property on those AddressModell's and then have this AddressModell passed to the suggestionAction. Therefore we return in the converters getAsObject()-method the object we want the framework to pass to the suggestion handler.
> But since the suggestionsbox doesn't support the converter tag, it doesn't take our converter into account...

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