Select: can't select int values programmatically

[milad]

hi all i create dijit.form.Select programmatic,if one option have Int value i cant select it programmatic,see attachment please.

[bill]

ooghry - Is it just that you messed up the data types? You defined value as a number yet call attr(value, '2'), passing in a string.

[Douglas Hays]

possible fix

[Douglas Hays]

Bill, the fix seems to be to loosen the type restrictions on a comparison (see patch). I can't find anything that this will break, but I'm not sure why the === was used in the first place. Any ideas?

[bill]

Looking at _FormSelectWidget.js, it seems like value is required to be a string. That's how it's documented in dijit.form.__SelectOption, plus multiple methods (getOptions() and removeOption()) can take either a number or string as an argument, but treat the number as an index (nth child) indicator.

See also #11545 and the patch attached there, which goes in the opposite direction (although I think that patch is stale).

So I don't think this ticket is invalid.

[bill]

Oops, double negative, I meant that I think this ticket is invalid.

[Douglas Hays]

Bill has decided to keep numeric values reserved for indexing the options array.

[bill]

For the record, I can see the value (no pun intended) of enhancing Select to allow numeric values, it's just that it confuses the current API because with a select list like:

<option value=10>...</option>
<option value=20>...</option>
<option value=30>...</option>
...

the meaning of

removeOption(10)

becomes unclear, it could be:

• remove the tenth option in the list
• remove the option with value == 10