Use selectItem to update inputtext value

Question

I read through many posting in this forum regarding on how to use valuechangelistener in the selectonemenu tag to update an inputtext value through selectItem's value. Unfortunately, it didn't solve the problem I am facing.
In a form on my JSP page, I have a list of InputText and some which has validator. I have a selectonemenu that renders out when the validator see that the value of the inputtext box is not specific enough. And this selectonemenu will show up all possible value that it could be. By selecting the selectItem it will replace the value of the InputText box.
Possible solution was to push the valuechenageevent to happen in the UPDATE_MODEL_VALUES but the problem is when i submit the form, the lifecycle sees the validation error in the other InputText since i have not input anything in (if i did that) and will skip that phase, thus causing the value of the selectItem not able to replace the value of the inputtext box.
Another way i did was to add the immediate attribute in the selectonemenu, this does update the inputText however the value of the other inputtext i have previously input will disappear which I think it happend becuase using immediate attribute will skip UPDATE_MODEL_VALUES phase again.
I will descript the work flow of my JSP page.
1. the form will populate a list of InputText and I enter the value in
2. I will then hit the commandbutton which will trigger the validation
3. on one of the validator it will render out a selectonemenu
4. selectonemenu tag has valuechangelistener attribute which will update the inputtext value with the selectItem value which i have selected.
Here is my JSP.
<f:view>
<h:form >
<h:dataTable binding="#{myBean.table }" value="#{myBean.list}" var="bean" >
<h:column>
<h:inputText value="#{bean.input2 }" />
<h:inputText id="Value" required="true" validator="#{myBean.validateInput }" value="#{bean.input }">
<f:validateLength minimum="1" maximum="500"/>
</h:inputText>
<h:message for="Value"/>
<h:selectOneMenu valueChangeListener="#{myBean.processValueChange}" value="#{bean.input }" onchange="javascript:form.submit();" rendered="#{myBean.nameList != null}" >
<f:selectItems value="#{myBean.nameList}" />
</h:selectOneMenu>
</h:column>
</h:dataTable>
<h:commandButton value="add" action="#{myBean.add}" />
</h:form>
</f:view>
I am thinking of maybe having commandbutton to submit form using onclick but don't know how that works out exactly or having individual form for every index of the datatable column. But then again i don't know how it would react to the outter forum that includes the whole datatable.
Please can someone help me out and tell me how to overcome the problem when validator is in use for the InputText. I have been trying to figure this out for days!!!!

Answer 1

hey.. I've read your post a couple of times and can't understand what your trying to do.. could you leave out what you think you need to do and just write what you want it to do? that might be why noone has replied?!!?