Tapestry 5: using Select component

to use Select component, first create a page class:

public class Test {
private String gender;

public String getGender() {
return gender;
}

public void setGender(String gender) {
this.gender = gender;
}

public void onSuccess() {
System.out.println(gender);
}
}

in the template:

<input t:type="select" t:id="gender" model="'M,F'"/>

above code works, however it drops down a list of "M" and "F", not so informative, let's change so that it shows 'Male' and 'Female' to the user, but value returned in the variable gender is still single char:

just add a hashmap in the above class:

private HashMap genderModel;

public Test(String gender) {
genderModel = new HashMap();
genderModel.put("M", "Male");
genderModel.put("F", "Female");

}

in the template:
<input t:type="select" name="gender" t:id="gender" model="genderModel" t:value="gender" />