JSF /Primefaces select one menu causing issues

Question

My index.xhtml looks like

<p:selectOneMenu value="#{tBean.selectedChartType}"
                    converter="entityConverter">
                    <f:selectItems value="#{tBean.chartTypes}" var="chart"
                        itemLabel="#{chart}" />
</p:selectOneMenu>

This presents ENUM list from my managed bean

private List<ChartType> chartTypes = Arrays.asList(ChartType.values());

My Enum

public enum ChartType {

    Line("line"), Spiral_Line("spline"), Area("area"), Spiral_Area("areaspline");
    private String code;

    private ChartType(String code) {
        this.code = code;
    }

    public String getCode() {
        return code;
    }

    public void setCode(String code) {
        this.code = code;
    }
}

Now when I run this .jsf on browser sometimes it throw error :

XML Parsing Error: undefined entity
Location: http://xxxx/index.sf
Line Number 54, Column 733:

When I look at the source code I have found

&nbsp;

which is causing this error I guess.

I am using JSF 2.2.0 and Primefaces 3.5

could someone please help me out with this issue?

possible duplicate of [JSF and type safety](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16433250/jsf-and-type-safety) — skuntsel, Jul 26 '13 at 09:17
That's a close vote made by mistake for sure, but I can't unfortunately undo it. — skuntsel, Jul 26 '13 at 12:24

Zaw Than oo · Answer 1 · 2013-07-26T08:57:38.030

1

Try as the following configuration in faces-config.xml

<converter>
    <converter-for-class>java.lang.Enum</converter-for-class>
    <converter-class>javax.faces.convert.EnumConverter</converter-class>
</converter>

page

    <p:selectOneMenu value="#{tBean.selectedChartType}">
        <f:selectItems value="#{tBean.chartTypes}" var="chart" itemLabel="#{chart}" />
    </p:selectOneMenu>

edited Jul 26 '13 at 08:57

answered Jul 26 '13 at 08:05

Zaw Than oo

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As your page, it is cause of the converter – Zaw Than oo Jul 26 '13 at 08:09
I will give it a go but I don't think so we have to register this enumconverter as JSF has alrady built-in converter for enum. I think my mistake was to use any converter for ENUM Select one menu. – Makky Jul 26 '13 at 08:40
^ Not even in faces-config.xml – Makky Jul 26 '13 at 08:58

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 09 '13 at 14:12

A little late to help the asker, but perhaps can help someone: I got this same error and the only way I could get around it was adding the attribute contentType="text/html" to my <f:view>, as in

<f:view contentType="text/html">
...
  <p:selectOneMenu>
    <f:selectItem itemLabel="test" itemValue="test"/>
  </p:selectOneMenu>
...
</f:view>

This occurs, afaik, because p:selectOneMenu renders a   and this character is not a xml entity. As my page uses DOCTYPE XHTML 1.0 Transitional, this causes the error to occur.

HTH.

JSF /Primefaces select one menu causing issues

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