Cannot sort child rows in multilevel tree table

Question

Hi,
I originally hijacked a two-year-old forum thread that was vaguely similar to my issue, but a kind forum moderator split my post away
(and deleted my other hijack post asking this same question)
so that my inquiry might be viewable on its own.
Hopefully someone can pay attention to my issue instead of getting it confused with those other old forum threads.
So, here we go ...
Is sorting in a treeTable at a particular level possible? Just want to let you I have tried the following approaches to do this. But it dis not work for me.
I have tree table with 2 levels. I am trying to sort the child rows based on its column say "Display Sequence".
User can type in number in this column which contains input text. On value change event of the this field, all the
child rows in the level 2 need to be sorted. This needs to be done without committing the data. On commit it works,
because it sorts based on order by clause. I want the child rows to be sorted on value change event. Following
various approaches I tried.
TreeModel tModel = (TreeModel)treeTable.getValue();
SortCriterion sortCriterion = new SortCriterion("DisplaySequence",true);
List<SortCriterion> sortCriteriaList = new ArrayList<SortCriterion>();
sortCriteriaList.add(sortCriterion);
tModel.setSortCriteria(sortCriteriaList);
The above code does not work, As "DisplaySequence" is not available in the parent view object.
Here is approach no 2
JUCtrlHierBinding treeTableBinding = null;
JUCtrlHierNodeBinding nodeBinding = null;
JUCtrlHierNodeBinding parentNodeBinding = null;
JUCtrlHierTypeBinding nodeHierTypeBinding = null;
Key rowKey;
Object dispSeqObj;
Number displaySequence = null;
Map<Key,Number> keyValueMap = null;
Set<Key> emptyValueKeySet = null;
Map<Key,Number> sortedKeyValueMap = null;
DCIteratorBinding target = null;
Iterator iter = null;
int rowIndex = 1;
RowSetIterator rsi = null;
Row currentRow = null;
Row row = null;
RowKeySet selectedRowKey = lookupTreeTable.getSelectedRowKeys();
Iterator rksIterator = selectedRowKey.iterator();
if (rksIterator.hasNext()) {
List key = (List)rksIterator.next();
System.out.println("key :"+key);
treeTableBinding = (JUCtrlHierBinding) ((CollectionModel)lookupTreeTable.getValue()).getWrappedData();
nodeBinding = treeTableBinding.findNodeByKeyPath(key);
parentNodeBinding = nodeBinding.getParent();
//rsi = nodeBinding.getParentRowSetIterator();
rsi = parentNodeBinding.getChildIteratorBinding().getRowSetIterator();
keyValueMap = new LinkedHashMap<Key,Number>();
emptyValueKeySet = new LinkedHashSet<Key>();
// Gets the DisplaySequence by iterating through the child rows
while(rsi.hasNext()) {
if(rowIndex==1)
row = rsi.first();
else
row = rsi.next();
rowKey = row.getKey();
dispSeqObj = row.getAttribute("DisplaySequence");
if(dispSeqObj!=null && dispSeqObj instanceof Number) {
displaySequence = (Number)dispSeqObj;
keyValueMap.put(rowKey, displaySequence);
}else {
emptyValueKeySet.add(rowKey);
rowIndex++;
rowIndex = 0;
// Sort the numbers using comparator
DisplaySequenceComparator dispSeqComparator = new DisplaySequenceComparator(keyValueMap);
sortedKeyValueMap = new TreeMap<Key,Number>(dispSeqComparator);
sortedKeyValueMap.putAll(keyValueMap);
rsi.reset();
nodeHierTypeBinding = nodeBinding.getHierTypeBinding();
System.out.println("nodeHierTypeBinding :"+nodeHierTypeBinding);
String expr = nodeHierTypeBinding.getTargetIterator();
if (expr != null) {
Object val = nodeBinding.getBindingContainer().evaluateParameter(expr, false);
if (val instanceof DCIteratorBinding) {
target = ((DCIteratorBinding)val);
ViewObject targetVo = target.getViewObject();
System.out.println("targetVo :"+targetVo);
targetVo.setAssociationConsistent(true);
//ri = target.findRowsByKeyValues(new Key[]{rowData.getRowKey()});
rsi = parentNodeBinding.getChildIteratorBinding().getRowSetIterator();
//rsi = nodeBinding.getParentRowSetIterator();
// Rearrange the tree rows by inserting at respective index based on sorting.
ViewObject vo = nodeBinding.getViewObject();
iter = sortedKeyValueMap.keySet().iterator();
while(iter.hasNext()) {
currentRow = rsi.getRow((Key)iter.next());
rsi.setCurrentRow(currentRow);
rsi.setCurrentRowAtRangeIndex(rowIndex);
//rsi.insertRowAtRangeIndex(rowIndex, currentRow);
rowIndex++;
iter = emptyValueKeySet.iterator();
while(iter.hasNext()) {
currentRow = rsi.getRow((Key)iter.next());
rsi.setCurrentRow(currentRow);
rsi.setCurrentRowAtRangeIndex(rowIndex);
//rsi.insertRowAtRangeIndex(rowIndex, currentRow);
rowIndex++;
rsi.closeRowSetIterator();
AdfFacesContext.getCurrentInstance().addPartialTarget(treeTable);
private class DisplaySequenceComparator implements Comparator {
Map<Key,oracle.jbo.domain.Number> dispSeqMap = null;
public DisplaySequenceComparator(Map<Key,oracle.jbo.domain.Number> dispSeqMap) {
this.dispSeqMap = dispSeqMap;
public int compare(Object a, Object b) {
Key key1 = (Key)a;
Key key2 = (Key)b;
oracle.jbo.domain.Number value1 = dispSeqMap.get(key1);
oracle.jbo.domain.Number value2 = dispSeqMap.get(key2);
if(value1.getValue() > value2.getValue()) {
return 1;
} else if(value1.getValue() == value2.getValue()) {
return 0;
} else {
return -1;
In the above code I tried to perform sorting of DisplaySequence values using comparator, then tried to rearrange
nodes or rows based on sort resurts. But rsi.insertRowAtRangeIndex(rowIndex, currentRow) give
DeadViewException...unable to find view reference. While setting current row also does not work.
Approach 3.
DCIteratorBinding iter1 =
bindings.findIteratorBinding("childIterator");
iter1.executeQuery();
SortCriteria sc = new SortCriteriaImpl("DisplaySequence",false);
SortCriteria [] scArray = new SortCriteria[1];
scArray[0] = sc;
iter1.applySortCriteria(scArray);
Any help in Sorting Child nodes ADF treeTable is appreciated. Thanks in Advance.
Abhishek

Answer 1

Hi Frank,
Thanks for your reply. I have tried similar approach for sorting tree table child rows based on user specified number and it works. But there is a limitation for this. This sorting works only for read only/transient view object. For updatable view object after sorting, data cannot be saved or updated, as it cannot find the rowid. Here is what I tried
In the ParentViewImpl class,
1. overrode the method createViewLinkAccessorRS, so that this method is forcefully executed.
@Override
protected ViewRowSetImpl createViewLinkAccessorRS(AssociationDefImpl associationDefImpl,
oracle.jbo.server.ViewObjectImpl viewObjectImpl,
Row row,
Object[] object) {
ViewRowSetImpl viewRowSetImpl = super.createViewLinkAccessorRS(associationDefImpl, viewObjectImpl, row, object);
return viewRowSetImpl;
2. Added the following method, which will be invoked on valueChange of DisplaySequence in child row. Expose this method through client interface. This method accept a parameter i.e. parent row key of the child row.
public void sortChildRecords(Key parentKey) {
ViewObject viewObject = null;
String type = null;
if(parentKey==null) {
Row [] row = this.findByKey(parentKey, 1);
RowSet rowSet = (RowSet)row[0].getAttribute("ChildVO");
viewObject = rowSet.getViewObject();
viewObject.setSortBy("DisplaySequence asc");
}else {
Row row = getCurrentRow();
RowSet rowSet = (RowSet)row.getAttribute("ChildVO");
viewObject = rowSet.getViewObject();
viewObject.setSortBy("DisplaySequence asc");
this.setQueryMode(ViewObject.QUERY_MODE_SCAN_DATABASE_TABLES |
ViewObject.QUERY_MODE_SCAN_ENTITY_ROWS);
this.executeQuery();
For custom sort, lets say all the numbers should be display first in ascending order, and null or empty values to be display at the end need to override the getRowComparator method in the ChildViewImpl class,
Here is the code for the same
@Override
public Comparator getRowComparator() {
SortCriteria sortCriteria = new SortCriteriaImpl("DisplaySequence",false);
SortCriteria [] sortCriterias = new SortCriteria[1];
sortCriterias[0] = sortCriteria;
return new DisplaySequenceComparator(sortCriterias);
private class DisplaySequenceComparator extends RowComparator {
public DisplaySequenceComparator(SortCriteria [] sortCriterias) {
super(sortCriterias);
public int compareRows(Row row1, Row row2) {
Object dispSeqObj1;
Object dispSeqObj2;
Number dispSeq1 = null;
Number dispSeq2 = null;
boolean compareRow1 = true;
boolean compareRow2 = true;
if(row1!=null) {
dispSeqObj1 = row1.getAttribute("DisplaySequence");
if(dispSeqObj1!=null && dispSeqObj1 instanceof Number) {
dispSeq1 = (Number)dispSeqObj1;
}else {
compareRow1 = false;
if(row2!=null) {
dispSeqObj2 = row2.getAttribute("DisplaySequence");
if(dispSeqObj2!=null && dispSeqObj2 instanceof Number) {
dispSeq2 = (Number)dispSeqObj2;
}else {
compareRow2 = false;
if(compareRow1 && compareRow2) {
if(dispSeq1.getValue() > dispSeq2.getValue()) {
return 1;
} else if(dispSeq1.getValue() == dispSeq2.getValue()) {
return 0;
} else {
return -1;
if(!compareRow1 && compareRow2)
return 1;
if(compareRow1 && !compareRow2)
return -1;
return 0;
The above solution works properly, and sorts the child tree rows. But while saving the changes, update fails. I also came to know that in-memory sorting is applicable to read-only/transient view objects from some blogs and also mentiond in this link http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E24382_01/web.1112/e16182/bcadvvo.htm
Is there any way that updatable view objects can be sorted and saved as well?
Thanks,
Abhishek
Edited by: 930857 on May 2, 2012 7:12 AM