selectItems (Jakarta Faces 4.0.0 VDL Documentation)

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Description:

Add a child UISelectItems component to the UIComponent associated with the closed parent UIComponent tag.

When iterating over the select items, toString() must be called on the string rendered attribute values.

Version 2 of the specification introduces several new attributes, described below. These are: var, itemValue, itemLabel, itemDescription, itemDisabled, and itemLabelEscaped.

Component Information
Info	Value
Component Type	`jakarta.faces.SelectItems`
Handler Class	None
Renderer Type	None
Description	None

Attributes
Name	Required	Type	Description
`binding`	`false`	`jakarta.el.ValueExpression` (must evaluate to `jakarta.faces.component.UIComponent`)	Value binding expression to a backing bean property bound to the component instance for the UIComponent created by this tag.
`id`	`false`	`jakarta.el.ValueExpression` (must evaluate to `java.lang.String`)	Component identifier of the UISelectItems component to be created.
`itemDescription`	`false`	`jakarta.el.ValueExpression` (must evaluate to `java.lang.String`)	evaluates to a String that will serve as the description to be shown for the item.
`itemDisabled`	`false`	`jakarta.el.ValueExpression` (must evaluate to `java.lang.Boolean`)	evaluates to a boolean that will determine if the item value is selectable or not.
`itemLabel`	`false`	`jakarta.el.ValueExpression` (must evaluate to `java.lang.String`)	evaluates to a String that will serve as the label to be shown for the item.
`itemLabelEscaped`	`false`	`jakarta.el.ValueExpression` (must evaluate to `java.lang.Boolean`)	evaluates to a boolean that will determine if the rendered markup for the item receives normal Faces HTML escaping or not. If not specified, the runtime must behave as if the value were `true`.
`itemValue`	`false`	`jakarta.el.ValueExpression` (must evaluate to `java.lang.Object`)	This attribute lets you refer to a property of the current member of the collection referenced by the "value" attribute, using the value of the "var" attribute as the base. For example, #{n.id}.
`noSelectionValue`	`false`	`jakarta.el.ValueExpression` (must evaluate to `java.lang.Boolean`)	Is either an EL expression pointing to the element in the value collection whose value should be marked as a “no selection” item, or a literal string that exactly matches the value of the item in the collection that must be marked as the “no selection” item. If the user selects such an item and the field is marked as required, then it will not pass validation.
`value`	`false`	`jakarta.el.ValueExpression` (must evaluate to `java.lang.Object`)	Value expression pointing at any `Collection` or array. The member elements may be instances of `SelectItem` or any Java Object. In the case where the member elements are plain Java Objects, several additional attributes must be used by the page author to correctly identify the data to the enclosing `UISelectOne` or `UISelectMany` component, as shown in the following example. <h:selectOneListbox size="1" id="escape02" value="#{select05NoSelection.initialCollectionValues}"> <f:selectItems value="#{select05NoSelection.hobbitList}" var="n" itemValue="#{n.id}" itemLabel="#{n.bio}" itemDescription="#{n.description}" itemDisabled="#{n.disabled}" itemLabelEscaped="true" noSelectionValue="#{select05NoSelection.hobbitList[0]}"/> </h:selectOneListbox> In the preceding example, the `value` attribute on line 1 points to a `Collection<HobbitBean>`. `HobbitBean` is just a regular Java Object (POJO) that conforms to JavaBeans naming conventions for its properties. The `value` attribute on line 2 points to a `List<HobbitBean>`, though it could just as well point to a `Collection`, array, or `jakarta.faces.model.DataModel`. The attributes on lines 3 through 9, inclusive, leverage the fact that the value is a collection of POJOs.
`var`	`false`	`jakarta.el.ValueExpression` (must evaluate to `java.lang.String`)	Expose the value from the `value` attribute under this request scoped key so that it may be referred to in EL for the value of other attributes.

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