I need a simple Converter for a selectBooleanCheckbox.

Question

Hi,
Can someone tell me how to build a simple converter to go from a selectBooleanCheckbox value to a String and back.
I save a String ("Y" or "N") in my table but the checkbox returns a boolean. I need a Converter to do the conversion from TRUE to "Y" and FALSE to "N". Should be easy to do but as of now, mine won't even execute properly.
I get a
javax.servlet.ServletException: javax.servlet.jsp.JspException: Can't instantiate class: 'ca.sshrc.web.common.converters.BooleanConverterYn'.
I don't understand how getAsObject and getAsString work I guess.
Thanks

Answer 1

Hi,
Has anyone been able to make the converter for "<h:selectBooleanCheckBox>" work??
seems like the converter method itself is not getting invoked.
this is what i am trying to do..
Code in jsp is
<h:selectBooleanCheckbox id="testCheckBox" value="#{myBean.testCheckBox}" >
     <f:converter converterId="booleanConverter" />     
</h:selectBooleanCheckbox>entry in faces-config is
<converter>          
       <converter-id>booleanConverter</converter-id>                  <converter-class>package.MyBooleanConverter</converter-class>
  </converter>class MyBooleanConverter looks like this at the moment
public class MyBooleanConverter implements Converter {
     public Object getAsObject(FacesContext context, UIComponent component, String value) {
          myBooleanClass myBoolean = new myBooleanClass(value);
          return myBoolean;
     public String getAsString(FacesContext context, UIComponent component, Object value) {
          return value.toString();
}     Have kept myBooleanClass as a simple wrapper for the Boolean class.
Same is working for string and integer but not in this case..
Am i going wrong somewhere... kindly help