SelectItems and Map String,String

Question

Hi all -
I'm using Tomcat 6.0.14, JSF 1.2 and JSTL 1.2.
Consider the following code:
<h:selectOneListBox size="1" value="#{myBean.value}">
  <f:selectItems value="#{myBean.valueMap}"/>
</h:selectOneListBox>And consider the following Map<String,String>, which is returned by myBean.getValueMap():
Key: Value
AL: Alabama
AR: Arkansas
The result of displaying the above map with the above code is:
<select name="blahblah" size="1">
  <option value="Arkansas">AR</option>
  <option value="Alabama">AL</option>
</select>Shouldn't it display like this?
<select name="blahblah" size="1">
  <option value="AL">Alabama</option>
  <option value="AR">Arkansas</option>
</select>if not, how do I make it display like I want it?
Thanks
Tim

Answer 1

Kaydet81 wrote:
Hi all -
I'm using Tomcat 6.0.14, JSF 1.2 and JSTL 1.2.
Consider the following code:
<h:selectOneListBox size="1" value="#{myBean.value}">
<f:selectItems value="#{myBean.valueMap}"/>
</h:selectOneListBox>And consider the following Map<String,String>, which is returned by myBean.getValueMap():
Key: Value
AL: Alabama
AR: Arkansas
The result of displaying the above map with the above code is:
<select name="blahblah" size="1">
<option value="Arkansas">AR</option>
<option value="Alabama">AL</option>
</select>Shouldn't it display like this?
<select name="blahblah" size="1">
<option value="AL">Alabama</option>
<option value="AR">Arkansas</option>
</select>
The javadoc for UISelectItems clearly states that the keys are used as the labels and the values for the, well, values.
>
if not, how do I make it display like I want it?Invert your map or create a method that will create the SelectItem objects from the map the way you want them.