SelectOneChoice and lost values...

[William Hoover <wh...@nemours.org>]

Is there any reason why SelectOneChoice (or any other selection component for that matter) can't check to see if that submitted value is one of the SelectItems values?

Something like:

List<SelectItem> items = SelectItemSupport.getSelectItems(component, SelectItemSupport.getConverter(component));
for (SelectItem item : items) {
	if (item.getValue() != null && item.getValue().equals(value)) {
		return true;
	}
}

The reason is that I have a scenario where the value gets lost due to a UINamingContainer row index insertion in child components id. This causes the value to be set to an empty String. Which, in this case, is not a valid SelectOneChoice > SelectItem value.

It just seems logical that the SelectOneChoiceRenderer is already cycling through the List<SelectItem> that it could also check to see if the submitted value is a valid SelectItem value?