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I have a page that looks in part like this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="windows-1252"?>
<page xmlns="http://xmlns.oracle.com/uix/controller"
      xmlns:ui="http://xmlns.oracle.com/uix/ui"
      xmlns:ctrl="http://xmlns.oracle.com/uix/controller"
      xmlns:html="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40" expressionLanguage="el">
    <content>
                                                <include node="${ctrl:parsePage(uix,'controlView')}"/>
    </content>
    <handlers>
        <event name="refresh hideControls" source="controlForm">
            <method class="com.avega.portlets.view.EventHandler"
                    method="handleControlFormSubmit"/>
        </event>
    </handlers>
</page>The included 'controlView' looks in part like this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="windows-1252"?>
<form xmlns="http://xmlns.oracle.com/uix/ui" name="controlForm">
    <contents>
        <submitButton text="Refresh" event="refresh">
        </submitButton>
        <submitButton text="Hide Controls" event="hideControls">
        </submitButton>
    </contents>
</form>I had originally tried to include more page-level elements in the controlView.uix file and put the event handler there, but I always got an unhandled event exception, so I put the handler out in the main page.
The event hander looks like this:
     public static EventResult handleControlFormSubmit( BajaContext context, Page page, PageEvent pageEvent ) {
          MutableState pageState = getMutableState( context, page );
          Informant.debug( "pageState.time = "+pageState.getValue("Time") );
          Informant.debug( "page.getProperty('Time') = "+page.getProperty("Time") );
          pageState.putValue( "Time", page.getProperty("Time") );
          page.setState( pageState );
          return new EventResult( page );
     public static MutableState getMutableState( BajaContext context, Page page ) {
          StateManager stateManager = context.getStateManager(true);
          State oldState = page.getState();
          if ( oldState == null ) {
               return stateManager.getNewState();
          } else {
               return StateUtils.cloneState( stateManager, oldState );
     }Now I'm not getting any exceptions, but the event handler isn't being called. I'm really just trying to get the debugging printouts at this point, to learn how the State works, but the page just redisplays and the printouts in the event handler never seem to get called.
What am I missing?

Answer 1

John -
The "source" of the event is going to be the id of the submitButton which fires the event - not the form name. So, try changing:
<event name="refresh hideControls" source="controlForm">to:
<event name="refresh hideControls">And I believe your event handler should be called.
Andy