Finally found a solution to this.
How to HIT a URL with <select>Below is a plain HTML+Javascript, which will change the location of page, based on selected option.
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<select onchange = "window.location=this.options[this.selectedIndex].value">
<option value="http://www.google.com">GOOGLE</option>
<option value="http://www.hotmail.com">HOTMAIL</option>
</select>
Now, for enabling sort, broadleaf provides links in combination with <a> tags.
Something like:
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<a blc:addsortlink="price"><span th:utext="#{productSortOptions.price}"></span></a>
On clicking this link, a URL is hit, which sorts the results.
We have to achieve the same functionality using dropdown.
Below steps can achieve that
1.
Extend the class AddSortLinkProcessorAdd the following code:
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@Override
protected Map<String, String> getModifiedAttributeValues(Arguments arguments, Element element, String attributeName) {
Map<String, String> attrs = super.getModifiedAttributeValues(arguments, element, attributeName);
String url = attrs.get("href");
attrs.remove("href");
attrs.put("value",url );
return attrs;
}
This code, removes the dynamic "href" attribute, and adds the URL [used for sorting] to the "value" attribute, which will be used with <option> tag within <select> tag.
2. Add your extended class to applicationContext.xml in site moduleCode: Select all
<bean id="blAddSortLinkProcessor" class="<your_extended_class_here>" />
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<select onchange = "window.location=this.options[this.selectedIndex].value">
<option blc:addsortlink="price" />
<option blc:addsortlink="name" />
</select>
Here, for each option, an attribute named "value=<SORT_URL>".
I tried to do a similar functionality for facets using checkboxes instead of links too.