BC4J tags

Question

Hi all
I have two Fields in my database e.g. Street Number and Street Address, I would like to Concatenate these two fields using BC4J tags to get Full address Field and it wold not have any effect on the database level.
Please can some one tell me how to achieve this. I know how to do it using the SQL, PL/SQL and also javascript but I can not figure out how to do it with BC4J.
Thank you for Helping.

Answer 1

There are a number of options to accomplish this. I recommend creating a "calculated" attribute in the view object and changing the "get" method to concatonate your two strings (or number and string in your case). ...
1) In the view object Dialog, create a new attribute (maybe called FullAddress) and make it updateable Never.
2) In the Java tab of the View object dialog, check generate java file and generate accessors.
3) Open the ViewObjectRowImpl.java file (where ViewObject is probabaly the name of your view object). and find the section that will look like:
public String getFullAddress()
return (String)getAttributeInternal(Phone);
or something similar..
Change the return to read like this psuedocode:
return (Number)getStreetNumber().toString+(String)getStreetAddress();