Using enum in selectOneMenu fails with: 'Male' must be convertible to an enum
Your problem is that your <f:selectItem>
specify strings, while in the <h:selectItem value="#{employeeBean.newEmployee.gender}">
seems to return one of the two Gender
enums.
Enums are AFAIK directly convertible without converter as long as you stick the same values into both.
Here's the/a pattern:
<h:selectOneMenu value="#{employeeBean.newEmployee.gender}" id="gender">
<f:selectItems value="#{enumValuesProvider.genders}"
var="gender"
itemValue="#{gender}"
itemLabel="#{gender.name()}" />
</h:selectOneMenu>
Note, I'm using <f:selectItems>
here. The problem is, you can't simply get the values from a JSF page directly. You will need a dedicated bean to do the job:
@Named // or @ManagedBean if you're not using CDI
@ViewScoped // or @RequestScoped
public EnumValuesProvider implements Serializable
{
public Gender[] getGenders()
{
return Gender.values();
}
}
This is just written down without any testing. No warranties.
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Updated on June 16, 2022Comments
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user1540625 about 2 years
I am about developing a small jsf project and I arrived to a state that I have to store a value in an enumeration type but couldn't figure out how to deal with
so I post here a small description of my problem:
here is the enumeration type:
package com.enumeration; import java.io.Serializable; public enum Gender implements Serializable{ Male('M'), Female('F'); private char description; private Gender(char description) { this.description = description; } public char getDescription() { return description; }
}
the xhtml page:
<h:panelGrid columns="2"> <h:outputLabel value="Nom:" for="nom" /> <h:inputText id="nom" value="#{employee.newEmployee.nom}" title="Nom" /> <h:outputLabel value="Gender:" for="gender" /> <h:selectOneMenu value="#{employeeBean.newEmployee.gender}" id="gender"> <f:selectItem itemLabel="Male" itemValue="Male" /> <f:selectItem itemLabel="Female" itemValue="Female"/> </h:selectOneMenu> </h:panelGrid> <h:commandButton value="ajouter" action="index.xhtml" actionListener="#{employeeBean.ajouter}" /> </h:form>
the problem is that when I try to add a new row to the database, and error is thrown by jsf: j_idt7:gender: 'Male' must be convertible to an enum.
I did some search on the net but couldn't understand the solutions please help thanks
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user1540625 over 11 yearshi thanks for help, i did as follows <h:outputLabel value="Gender:" for="gender" /> <h:selectOneMenu value="#{employeeBean.newEmployee.gender}" id="gender"> <f:selectItems value="#{employeeBean.genders}" var="gender" itemValue="#{gender.description}" itemLabel="#{gender}"/> </h:selectOneMenu> and i gt the error "j_idt20:gender: 'F' must be convertible to an enum. "
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rodrigocprates about 10 yearsprobably you have an "Select" item with null value, or something like that