BUG??? Overridden prepareModel not being called all the time

Question

I have an ADF/struts application that was originally developed with Jdev 10.1.2. I then migrated it to 10.1.3 and have been maintaining it with that for that past two months. Recently, I added some new pages and in those new pages I need to do some preprocessing. I was hoping to do this in the prepareModel of this page, however it is not being called when I come to the page via a submit button that is named "event_Calendar". If I click the search button on the Calendar page though, the prepareModel does fire, and the preprocessing takes place.
Hyperlinks do work though. If I use a html:link with page "browseCalendar.do" it does get called an the preprocessing goes perfectly. I am guessing that this does not use the framework as extensively as the above example though.
Is this a bug?? Or am I doing something wrong??
Let me know if you need more info.
Thanks,
Chris

Answer 1

public class BrowseCalendarPageController extends PageController {
    public void prepareModel(LifecycleContext context)
        super.prepareModel(context);
        System.out.println("Inside prepareModel");
        StrutsPageLifecycleContext actionContext = (StrutsPageLifecycleContext)context;
        DCIteratorBinding it = actionContext.getBindingContext().findBindingContainer("browseCalendarPageDef").findIteratorBinding("BS_CalendarFindViewIterator");
        Row row = it.getViewCriteria().getCurrentRow();
        if(row.getAttribute("StartTime") == null) {
            System.out.println("StartTime is null");
            Date date = new Date();
            SimpleDateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("MM-dd-yyyy hh:mm:ss a");
            row.setAttribute("StartTime",df.format(date));
        if(row.getAttribute("EndTime") == null) {
            System.out.println("EndTime is null");
            String start = row.getAttribute("StartTime").toString();
            SimpleDateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("MM-dd-yyyy hh:mm:ss a");
            try{
                Date date = df.parse(start);
                Calendar ca = Calendar.getInstance();
                ca.setTime(date);
                ca.add(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH,7);
                Date newDate = ca.getTime();
                row.setAttribute("EndTime",df.format(newDate));
            catch(Exception e) {
                e.printStackTrace();
        it.getViewObject().applyViewCriteria(it.getViewCriteria());
        it.executeQuery();
}