Getting problem in binding DropDown List with table data in visual JSF

Question

Hi All,
I am new to visual JSF.
I am getting few problems while working over components.
I have succeeded in binding data of Person table in a drop down list .
By just drag drop ..it worked.
But while connecting to external DB this drag drop mechanism didn't work for me .
1st problem that i faced was by dragging method columns are not visible when i did right click-> bind to Data -> DataProvider window .
But i am successfully printed table Data in backend ie: by putting
for(int i=0; i<xn_white_listDataProvider.getAllRows().length;i++){
       System.out.println("  value :"+xn_white_listDataProvider.getValue("SUB_ID",xn_white_listDataProvider.getRowKey(Integer.toString(i))));
}I am not getting how to set Items in dropdown1
I tried putting
HelloSh.xn_white_listDataProvider.options['XNODE.XN_WHITE_LIST.SUB_ID, XNODE.XN_WHITE_LIST.SUB_ID'but it didn't work while for person data table
  items="#{HelloSh.personDataProvider.options['PERSON.PERSONID,PERSON.NAME']}"it is working
when i am writting items="24,28" in dropdown1 box
& printing its value in static text Like
<webuijsf:staticText id="staticText3" style="position: absolute; left: 72px; top: 120px" text="#{HelloSh.dropDown1.items}"/> it is printing fine .
Plz help me in this regard.
Any clarification if needed plz let me know.
Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

<h:selectOneMenu id="menu1" styleClass="selectOneMenu">
<f:selectItems value="*#{selectitems.pc_DynamicPortletEdit.regList}*" />
</h:selectOneMenu>When we bind the list to the h:selectOneMenu the code in the JSP will be as given above.
My doubts here are
1) But when i tried to bind the list to a selectonemenu the code in the JSP is looking like this one
<h:selectOneMenu id="menu1" styleClass="selectOneMenu">
<f:selectItems value="*#{selectitems.pc_DynamicPortletEdit.regList.regList.toArray}*" />
</h:selectOneMenu>2) Also in the runtime instead of displaying the values in the dropdown, i am getting the object names (javax.faces.model.SelectItem@680d0ccc) in the drop down.
What am I doing wrong? Any help here would be usefull for me.
BTW,
the code in the backing bean for setting the values is like this
List dropListValue = new ArrayList();
    for (int x=0; x<result.length; x++){ //where result is array of string values              
        SelectItem tempSelect = new SelectItem();
        tempSelect.setLabel(result[x]);
        tempSelect.setValue(result[x]);
        dropListValue.add(result[x]);                      
this.setRegList(dropListValue );The bean is in request scope only.