Browse functionality in POD Plugin not working?

Question

I played around a bit with POD plugins and the browse functionality that is supported there
It's working to the extend that I have a field with a browse button that opens a dialgue with the browse results. But when I choose an entry and close the dialgue the value is not written back into the browse field
But they seem to be still connected since when I write a few letters into the browse field they act as filter for the browse result
The field has a getter and a setter (but the later will not be called after closing the browse dialogue)
The field is defined like this in the JSP of the plugin:
<ls:inputField facet="content" id="OPERATION" name="OPERATION_CUSTOM"
     fieldHelpPressInfoEnabled="true"
     fieldHelpPressInfoClientAction="submit"
     fieldHelpPressInfoResponseData="delta"
     fieldHelpPressInfoParameters="#"
     fieldHelp="F4LOOKUP" showHelpButton="true"
     actionListener="#{customLotHoldPlugin.browseActionListener}"
     value="#{customLotHoldPlugin.operation}">
     <f:attribute name="browseable" value="true" />
     <f:attribute name="browseId" value="OPERATION_CUSTOM" />
     <f:attribute name="browseCustom" value="custom" />
     <f:attribute name="browseSelectionModel" value="single" />
     <f:attribute name="browseCallBack" value="customLotHoldPlugin.processOperationCallback"/>
</ls:inputField>
I also tried to use a callback function and maybe set the value manually. But I can't find the chosen value anywhere in the context
Another question would be what kind of legacy browses are supported. The manual doesn't really help here much.
What we would need would be a browse for shop order (I already found SHOP_ORDER with browseCustom set to "standard" for this one) and hold codes for a custom lot hold plugin
Thanks,
Anton

Answer 1

Anton,
I have written a test plugin and was having the same problem you have encountered.  I was finally able to get it working.  The important part is to extend from the BasePodPlugin class and to implement the BrowseSelectionEventListener.  In the constructor make sure to add the listener.  In the JSP file, make sure the id starts with an upper case letter.  The id is used to construct the set method that will be called.  It appends the first character of the id to "set" and the the rest of the characters in the id are converted to lower case and appended to the end.  So id=OPERATION will create a method name of "setOperation".
This is my java class:
import com.sap.me.wpmf.BrowseSelectionEventListener;
import com.sap.me.production.podclient.BasePodPlugin;
public class TestBrowsePlugin extends BasePodPlugin implements BrowseSelectionEventListener {
    private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
    private String operationText = null;
    public TestBrowsePlugin() {
        super();
        getPluginEventManager().addPluginListeners(this.getClass());
    public void setOperation(String operation) {
        setOperationText(operation);
    public String getOperationText() {
        return operationText;
    public void setOperationText(String operationText) {
        this.operationText = operationText.toUpperCase();
This is my browse definition in the jsp file:
<ls:inputField facet="content" id="Operation" name="OPERATION" upperCase="true" width="200px"
               containerWidthSet="true" showHelpButton="true" fieldHelp="F4LOOKUP"
               fieldHelpPressInfoEnabled="true" fieldHelpPressInfoClientAction="submit"
               fieldHelpPressInfoResponseData="delta"
               fieldHelpPressInfoParameters="#"
               actionListener="#{testBrowsePlugin.browseActionListener}"
               value="#{testBrowsePlugin.operationText}">
    <f:attribute name="browseable" value="true" />
    <f:attribute name="browseId" value="OPERATION_CUSTOM" />
    <f:attribute name="browseCustom" value="custom" />
    <f:attribute name="browseSelectionModel" value="single" />
    <f:attribute name="browseDialogWidth" value="20em" />
    <f:attribute name="browseDialogHeight" value="25em" />
</ls:inputField>
Regards,
Stan