ADF view access from DataForwardAction - help

Question

Hi,
i want to access an view object which is unrelated to any page bindings in the findForward method of a DataForwardAction class. How do i register the Application module and view objects with the UIModel for the UIX Datapage?
At the moment, it cannot find the view object:
ViewObject vo = ctx.getBindingContainer().getApplicationModule().findViewObject("UserRoleFunctionsView1");
this results in an internal server error:
oracle.jbo.NoObjException: JBO-25003: Object UserRoleFunctionsView1 of type View Object not found
i have tried adding a data model binding on the UIModel assigned to the page, but this does not fix the problem.
can someone please advise what the correct setup procedure is?

Answer 1

The getApplicationModule() method of binding container is for upward compatibility of JClient applications coming from pre-9.0.5 JDeveloper.
The correct way to get your application module from your DataAction, as noted in the ADF Data Binding Primer white paper and as illustrated in the ADF Toy Store Demo, is to:
ApplicationModule am = (ApplicationModule)ctx.getBindingContext().findDataControl("YourAMNameDataControl").getDataProvider();If you have exposed custom AM methods on your client interface, you can use this instead to cast the ApplicationModule to the YourAMName interface:
YourAMName am = (YourAMName)ctx.getBindingContext().findDataControl("YourAMNameDataControl").getDataProvider();