Prepopulating a property with binding attribute

Question

Hi,
I have a requirement to populate a set of fields when the user changes options in a select box. It works fine if there is no binding attribute defined for that field. If there is a binding attribute, the value set in the bean is not being shown in the page.
For e.g
<h:selectOneMenu id="cardType" value="#{checkoutBean.paymentInfo.cardType}" required="true" binding="#{checkoutBean.paymentInfo.cardTypeComponent}">
</h:selectOneMenu>The value is set is not shown as selected if I have the binding attribute. If I remove binding attribute above it works fine.
Also i tried doing getCardTypeComponent().setValue(cardType) and getCardTypeComponent().setSubmittedValue(cardType), but they are not of any help.
Please let me know how this can be addressed.

Answer 1

manick_r wrote:
Thanks for your help BalusC. I am using MyFaces 1.1. Better post this issue at their own mailinglist. You see, you are here at a Sun JSF forum, not at a Apache MyFaces forum.
Sorry, I won't be able to post piece of code as there are so many dependency between components.Are you insinuating that you haven't even excluded the other components from being suspicious? How did you conclude then that the fault is in the JSF specification?
All I do is
1. Have got a select box. Added a binding attribute to the select box.
2. Trying to populate with a value fethced from DB on certain user action.(For u to test, please set the value from the constructor of the bean..).
whatever value preset is not shown as selected in the select box.Back to point 2: you're presetting it in the constructor of the bean? Do you know that a session scoped bean is created only once per session? Put it in the request scope rather than session scope to get the constructor invoked on every request.