[bradm]

I have a string variable (sqlQuery) whose value I want to change based upon the selection made in a dropdown control (a selectone menu, whose selected item is wired to the searchType property). The menu is like so:

<h:selectOneMenu value=”#{BarChartSelectionsBean.searchType}” >
<f:selectItems value=”#{BarChartSelectionsBean.searchTypeItems}” />
</h:selectOneMenu>

In the managed bean, I have the following code that is supposed to evaluate searchType, and set and get a particular string for sqlQuery based upon the searchType selection. It always returns a null pointer exception (even though I know the searchType variable is resolving, as I’m printing it out to the browser):

public void setSqlQuery()
{
if (this.searchType.equals(“consumption”))
{
sqlQuery = “this”;
}
else
{
sqlQuery = “that”;
}
}

public String getSqlQuery()
{
return sqlQuery;
}

I’m baffled. How do I go about modifying the value of the sqlQuery variable based upon the searchType selection made by the user?

[Riyad Kalla]

Moving to OT > Soft Dev, this is not an ME issue but a JSF question.

brad to get a more effective answer we likely need to see the code for the entire form on the JSP page, as well as the bean impl.

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