Provide a public method to change the selection of ui5-select programmatically

Discuss and provide a suitable public API to change selection.

We have a read-only selectedOption property:

	/**
	 * Currently selected option
	 * @readonly
	 * @type { ui5-option }
	 * @public
	 */
	get selectedOption() {
		return this.options.find(option => option.selected);
	}

What one must currently do is something like:

[...$0.children].forEach(option => option.selected = option.textContent === "Compact")

We need an official API for this.

[ignipae]

Hi, I would also also like to see a suitable public API.

BR Julian

[ilhan007]

We had a discussion on the topic and decided the declarative way of selecting an option is enough and recommended.

We considered providing a setter, a method to select an option as:

select.setSelectedOption(option => option.textContent === "Compact");

But, the effort is not much different from what is currently possible

[...$0.children].forEach(option => option.selected = option.textContent === "Compact")

That’s why for time being, we don’t plan to introduce such an API.