SelectItem setValue () / getValue () type matching

[shortpasta]

Using:
SmartGWT v8.3d_2012-10-22/LGPL Development Only (built 2012-10-22)
FF 6.0.2

I initialize a SelectItem with a LinkedHashMap<String, String>:

    valueMap.put ("1", "Value 1");
    valueMap.put ("2", "Value 2");

When I call selectItem.setValue (2) (type = int and not String), this is what I get when I call getValue ():

00:03:02.107 [INFO] selectItem.getValue (): null
00:03:02.107 [INFO] selectItem.getValueAsString (): 2

When I call selectItem.setValue ("2") (type = String, matching the valueMap), this is what I get when I call getValue ():

00:04:11.975 [INFO] selectItem.getValue (): 2
00:04:11.975 [INFO] selectItem.getValueAsString (): 2

Test case:

import java.util.LinkedHashMap;

import com.smartgwt.client.widgets.form.fields.SelectItem;
import com.smartgwt.client.widgets.form.fields.SubmitItem;
import com.smartgwt.client.widgets.form.DynamicForm;
import com.smartgwt.client.widgets.form.events.SubmitValuesHandler;
import com.smartgwt.client.widgets.form.events.SubmitValuesEvent;
import com.smartgwt.client.widgets.layout.HLayout;

import com.google.gwt.core.client.EntryPoint;
import com.google.gwt.core.client.GWT;

public class SelectItemGetValue implements EntryPoint {

  /**
   * The EntryPoint interface
   */
  public void onModuleLoad () {

    // add a SelectItem with data sorted in order c/b/a
    // this SelectItem properly respects the LinkedHashMap order c, b, a
    final LinkedHashMap<String, String> valueMap = new LinkedHashMap<String, String> ();
    valueMap.put ("1", "Value 1");
    valueMap.put ("2", "Value 2");

    final SelectItem selectItem = new SelectItem ();
    selectItem.setTitle ("selectItem");
    selectItem.setValueMap (valueMap);

    // when calling selectItem.setValue (2);
    // 00:03:02.107 [INFO] selectItem.getValue (): null
    // 00:03:02.107 [INFO] selectItem.getValueAsString (): 2
    
    // when calling selectItem.setValue ("2");
    // selectItem.setValue ("2");
    // 00:04:11.975 [INFO] selectItem.getValue (): 2
    // 00:04:11.975 [INFO] selectItem.getValueAsString (): 2

    // form
    final SubmitItem submitItem = new SubmitItem ();
    final DynamicForm form = new DynamicForm ();
    form.setWrapItemTitles (false);
    form.setFields (selectItem, submitItem);
    form.addSubmitValuesHandler (new SubmitValuesHandler () {
      public void onSubmitValues (final SubmitValuesEvent event) {
        GWT.log ("selectItem.getValue (): " + selectItem.getValue ());
        GWT.log ("selectItem.getValueAsString (): " + selectItem.getValueAsString ());
      }
    });

    // display
    final HLayout mainLayout = new HLayout ();
    mainLayout.setWidth100 ();
    mainLayout.setHeight100 ();
    mainLayout.addMember (form);
    mainLayout.draw ();
  }
}

It seems that for getValue () to work, with SmartGWT 3.0p-2012-04-26 I could call either selectItem.setValue (2) or selectItem.setValue ("2"), but with 3.1d-2012-10-22 I need to call selectItem.setValue ("2").

In other words, the type needs to match.
Is this by design?

[Isomorphic]

No this isn't by design - it was an unintended side effect of a different change.
Thanks for the clear test case - we've now fixed this. The change will show up in the next 8.3d build (Oct 30 or greater)

Regards
Isomorphic Software

[shortpasta]

Confirmed with SmartGWT 3.1d:
v8.3d_2012-10-30/LGPL Development Only (built 2012-10-30)

[bolashokry]

I'm facing the same issue but with Record instead of int.

However my selectItem has value map of <Record, String>,
I have to set value like this:
selectItem.setValue(myRecord.toString())

Setting value just as record selectItem.setValue(myRecord) causes getValue to return null.

Using:
SmartClient Version: v9.0_2013-07-03/LGPL Development Only (built 2013-07-03)
FF: 26.0

[Isomorphic]

Record is not a valid type for the left-hand value of a valueMap (it's basically just being converted to a String via toString()).

What you might want is the dataSourceField.foreignKey / dataSourceField.includeFrom/optionDataSource functionality, which allows you to select related records and store their primaryKey values. See the docs for details.