Of five options in a selectOneMenu I chose the second option and persisted the entity. On edit the persisted entity selectOneMenu always has the last option as its value.
For example,
<h:selectOneMenu value="#{userHome.user.leader}">
<f:selectItems value="#{userHome.availableLeaders}" var="leader" itemLabel="# {leader.name}" itemValue="#{leader}"/>
</h:selectOneMenu>
where availableLeaders is a list of users populated @PostConstruct method.
I am expecting the selectOneMenu to have the second option(chosen) on edit.
@FacesConverter(forClass = User.class, value = "userConverter")
public class UserConverter implements Converter {
public UserConverter() {
}
@Override
public Object getAsObject(FacesContext context, UIComponent component,
String value) {
EntityManagerFactory emf = Persistence.createEntityManagerFactory("DefaultPersistenceUnit");
EntityManager em = emf.createEntityManager();
Query q = em.createQuery("select query");
return q.resultList().get(0);
}
@Override
public String getAsString(FacesContext context, UIComponent component,
Object value) {
return ((User) value).getName();
}}
In User.java
public boolean equals(Object other) {
if (this.getClass().isInstance(other)) {
return true;
} else {
return false;
}
}
public int hashCode() {
HashCodeBuilder builder = new HashCodeBuilder();
builder.append(getId());
builder.append(getName());
return builder.toHashCode();
}