How to get selectOneMenu value

[Sami M�nnist�]

Hi!
I need to get selectOneMenus selected value when page loads.
I only need it for the first time when page loads so the value is the first one in the list...But how to access it?

    
 
<td><h:selectOneMenu id="protocolField" onchange="javascript : changePortByProtocol(this);" value="#{endpoint.protocol}">
<f:selectItems value="#{endpointEdit.protocolList}" />
</h:selectOneMenu></td>
 

[Bauke Scholtz]

Do you want to access it by JavaScript or JSF?

[Sami M�nnist�]

Id rather access it by jsf but in the end either will do.

[Bauke Scholtz]

Well, the selectOneMenu value is accessible by endpoint.protocol.

If you don't understand how it works, here is a basic working example:

JSF

<h:selectOneMenu value="#{myBean.selectedItem}">
    <f:selectItems value="#{myBean.selectItems}" />
</h:selectOneMenu>

MyBean

private String selectedItem;
 
public String getSelectedItem() {
    if (selectedItem == null) {
        selectedItem = "value2"; // This will be the default selected item.
    }
    return selectedItem;
}
 
public void setSelectedItem(String selectedItem) {
    this.selectedItem = selectedItem;
}
 
public List getSelectItems() {
    List selectItems = new ArrayList();
    selectItems.add(new SelectItem("value1", "label1"));
    selectItems.add(new SelectItem("value2", "label2"));
    selectItems.add(new SelectItem("value3", "label3"));
    // The values are the keys passed to the selectItem property.
    // The labels are those what you see on the menu.
 
    return selectItems;
}

[Sami M�nnist�]

Thanks Bauke but the problem is that endpoint.protocol is an entity witch gets its values from database and when the user presses new endpoint on previous page new record is created and endpoit.protocol is null. I need to get the default value of selectOneMenu so I can disable certain fields.
That needs to be done only once when page loads after that javascript takes care of that when selectOneMenu changes...

Sorry for my bad presentation on my first question.