SelectMany Properties

Because a SelectMany component allows a user to select one or more items from a list of items, this component must map to a bean property of type List or array. This bean property represents the set of currently selected items from the list of available items.

The following example of selectManyCheckbox tag comes fromRendering Components for Selecting Multiple Values:

<h:selectManyCheckbox
    id="newsletters"
    layout="pageDirection"
    value="#{cashier.newsletters}">
    <f:selectItems value="#{newsletters}"/>
</h:selectManyCheckbox>

Here is the bean property that maps to the value of the selectManyCheckbox tag from the preceding example:

protected String newsletters[] = new String[0];

public void setNewsletters(String newsletters[]) {
    this.newsletters = newsletters;
}
public String[] getNewsletters() {
    return this.newsletters;
}

The SelectItem and SelectItems components are used to represent all the values in a SelectMany component. See SelectItem Properties and SelectItems Properties for information on writing the bean properties for the SelectItem and SelectItems components.