Grails g:select no selection

grails enums gsp
drago picture drago · Jul 26, 2012 · Viewed 8.5k times · Source

I have the following combobox: 

<g:select name="ticketType" from="${app.domain.enums.TicketType?.values()}"
                              keys="${app.domain.enums.TicketType.values() }"
                              value="${ticketInstance?.ticketType}"
                              noSelection="${['null': 'Select One...']}"
                    />

I've setup the following constraint for ticketType in command object

ticketType nullable: true, blank:true

TicketType is a very simple enum:

    public enum TicketType {
        QUESTION, SUPPORT, MAINTENANCE, NEW_FUNCTIONALITY, MALFUNCTION
}

And every time I don't setup some value for ticketType in my GSP I get the following error:

Failed to convert property value of type 'java.lang.String' to required type 'com.coming.enums.TicketPriority'

It's like in case of no selection g:select sets the value for "null" (string).

What am I missing?

Answer

Aquatoad picture Aquatoad · Jul 26, 2012

Rather than using the 'null' literal, have you tried using an empty string as your noSelection attribute? e.g. noSelection="${['':'Select One...']}"? This may do a proper conversion to a true null value during data binding.

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