Avoid extra reading the database in the getAsObject method of the converter class by caching the client side of the data?

Question

I am showing a list of suggested elements in an input element autocomplete. For this I need to implement converterto convert entity<entityName, entityId>to entityNameand vice versa. However, when implementing this, I realized that I had to read the database more than once in order to find the corresponding entityId for the selected name of the entity (while getAsObject()), I wonder why this is not stored somewhere on the client side, so it entityIdcan be passed on selection entityName.

Is there any way to avoid this extra reading?

Answer 1

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public abstract class SelectItemsBaseConverter implements Converter {
    @Override
    public Object getAsObject(FacesContext context, UIComponent component, String value) {        
        return SelectItemsUtils.findValueByStringConversion(context, component, value, this);    
    }    
}

SelectItemsUtils, :

public final class SelectItemsUtils {

    private SelectItemsUtils() {}

    public static Object findValueByStringConversion(FacesContext context, UIComponent component, String value, Converter converter) {
        return findValueByStringConversion(context, component, new SelectItemsIterator(context, component), value, converter);        
    }

    private static Object findValueByStringConversion(FacesContext context, UIComponent component, Iterator<SelectItem> items, String value, Converter converter) {
        while (items.hasNext()) {
            SelectItem item = items.next();
            if (item instanceof SelectItemGroup) {
                SelectItem subitems[] = ((SelectItemGroup) item).getSelectItems();
                if (!isEmpty(subitems)) {
                    Object object = findValueByStringConversion(context, component, new ArrayIterator(subitems), value, converter);
                    if (object != null) {
                        return object;
                    }
                }
            } else if (!item.isNoSelectionOption() && value.equals(converter.getAsString(context, component, item.getValue()))) {
                return item.getValue();
            }
        }        
        return null;
    }

    public static boolean isEmpty(Object[] array) {
        return array == null || array.length == 0;    
    }

    /**
     * This class is based on Mojarra version
     */
    static class ArrayIterator implements Iterator<SelectItem> {

        public ArrayIterator(SelectItem items[]) {
            this.items = items;
        }

        private SelectItem items[];
        private int index = 0;

        public boolean hasNext() {
            return (index < items.length);
        }

        public SelectItem next() {
            try {
                return (items[index++]);
            }
            catch (IndexOutOfBoundsException e) {
                throw new NoSuchElementException();
            }
        }

        public void remove() {
            throw new UnsupportedOperationException();
        }
    }
}

, , getAsString() (getAsObject() ):

@FacesConverter("someEntitySelectItemsConverter")
public class SomeEntitySelectItemsConverter extends SelectItemsBaseConverter {

    @Override
    public String getAsString(FacesContext context, UIComponent component, Object value) {
        return ((SomeEntity) value).getId().toString();
    }
}

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JSF OmniFaces

• SelectItemsConverter - <f:selectItem(s)> Object#toString().
• SelectItemsIndexConverter - <f:selectItem(s)> .
• ListConverter - . <p:autoComplete> Object#toString()
• ListIndexConverter - . <p:autoComplete> .

Answer 2

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@ManagedBean
@RequestScoped
public class EntityConverter implements Converter
{
  @ManagedProperty(value = "#{autoCompleteBean}")
  private AutoCompleteBean autoCompleteBean;

  public void setAutoCompleteBean(AutoCompleteBean autoCompleteBean)
  {
    this.autoCompleteBean = autoCompleteBean;
  }

  @Override
  public Object getAsObject(FacesContext context, UIComponent component,
        String value)
  {
    final List<Entity> entities = autoCompleteBean.getCachedSuggestions();

    for (final Enity entity : entities)
    {
      if (entity.getIdAsString().equals(value))
      {
        return entity;
      }
    }
    throw new IllegalStateException("Entity was not found!");
  }

  @Override
  public String getAsString(FacesContext context, UIComponent component,
        Object value)
  { ... }

jsf , bean. :

        <p:autoComplete value="#{autoCompleteBean.selectedEntity}"
          completeMethod="#{autoCompleteBean.getSuggestions}" var="theEntity"
          itemValue="#{theEntity}" itemLabel=#{theEntity.someValue}
          converter="#{entityConverter}">