Create a confirmation popup dialog when submitting a form

Question

Hi all,
I have a simple business : ask a question (yes/no) to a user when he is submitting a form.
This form is an "ADF Form (11g)" and is displayed in a inline dialog. It is triggered for an EntityView when user clicks on an edit button of a table row.
I've tried lot of different solutions but it never works.
Let me tell you about these:
Solution 1: Adding a showPopupBehavior
    <af:document id="d1">
      <af:messages id="m1"/>
      <af:form id="f1">
        <af:panelFormLayout id="pfl1">
          <af:inputDate value="#{bindings.Datedeb.inputValue}" label="From:" required="#{bindings.Datedeb.hints.mandatory}" shortDesc="#{bindings.Datedeb.hints.tooltip}" id="id2">
            <f:validator binding="#{bindings.Datedeb.validator}"/>
            <af:convertDateTime pattern="#{bindings.Datedeb.format}"/>
          </af:inputDate>
       <!-- ... -->
          <f:facet name="footer">
            <af:group id="g1">
              <af:commandButton text="Submit" id="cb1">
                <af:showPopupBehavior popupId="p1" />
                <af:returnActionListener/>
              </af:commandButton>
              <af:popup id="p1">
                <af:dialog id="d2" title="Assistance" type="yesNo" dialogListener="#{backingBeanScope.dialogBackingBean.mustClosePreviousAddress}">
                  <af:outputText value="Do you want to close the previous adress automatically ? " id="ot1"/>
                </af:dialog>
              </af:popup>
            </af:group>
          </f:facet>
        </af:panelFormLayout>
      </af:form>
    </af:document>The issue is that the +<af:returnActionListener/>+ is never triggered and the form do not close.
Solution 2: Adding a showPopupBehavior and change the triggerType
    <af:document id="d1">
      <af:messages id="m1"/>
      <af:form id="f1">
        <af:panelFormLayout id="pfl1">
          <af:inputDate value="#{bindings.Datedeb.inputValue}" label="From:" required="#{bindings.Datedeb.hints.mandatory}" shortDesc="#{bindings.Datedeb.hints.tooltip}" id="id2">
            <f:validator binding="#{bindings.Datedeb.validator}"/>
            <af:convertDateTime pattern="#{bindings.Datedeb.format}"/>
          </af:inputDate>
       <!-- ... -->
          <f:facet name="footer">
            <af:group id="g1">
              <af:commandButton text="Submit" id="cb1">
                <af:showPopupBehavior popupId="p1" triggerType="click" />
                <af:returnActionListener/>
              </af:commandButton>
              <af:popup id="p1">
                <af:dialog id="d2" title="Assistance" type="yesNo" dialogListener="#{backingBeanScope.dialogBackingBean.mustClosePreviousAddress}">
                  <af:outputText value="Do you want to close the previous adress automatically ? " id="ot1"/>
                </af:dialog>
              </af:popup>
            </af:group>
          </f:facet>
        </af:panelFormLayout>
      </af:form>
    </af:document>By reading in your forum I find this solution to be able to initiate a popup and execute the commandButton action by adding the triggerType="click" on the showPopupBehavior.
The issue then is that the dialog get closed without waiting for a user response on the popup dialog (yes/no)
Solution 3: Adding aAdfFacesContext.getCurrentInstance().returnFromDialog(null, null); in my dialog listener
    <af:document id="d1">
      <af:messages id="m1"/>
      <af:form id="f1">
        <af:panelFormLayout id="pfl1">
          <af:inputDate value="#{bindings.Datedeb.inputValue}" label="From:" required="#{bindings.Datedeb.hints.mandatory}" shortDesc="#{bindings.Datedeb.hints.tooltip}" id="id2">
            <f:validator binding="#{bindings.Datedeb.validator}"/>
            <af:convertDateTime pattern="#{bindings.Datedeb.format}"/>
          </af:inputDate>
       <!-- ... -->
          <f:facet name="footer">
            <af:group id="g1">
              <af:commandButton text="Submit" id="cb1">
                <af:showPopupBehavior popupId="p1" triggerType="click" />
              </af:commandButton>
              <af:popup id="p1">
                <af:dialog id="d2" title="Assistance" type="yesNo" dialogListener="#{backingBeanScope.dialogBackingBean.mustClosePreviousAddress}">
                  <af:outputText value="Do you want to close the previous adress automatically ? " id="ot1"/>
                </af:dialog>
              </af:popup>
            </af:group>
          </f:facet>
        </af:panelFormLayout>
      </af:form>
    </af:document>
  public void mustClosePreviousAddress(DialogEvent dialogEvent)
    //Business logic
    AdfFacesContext.getCurrentInstance().returnFromDialog(null, null);
  }It looks like it work and close the dialog when click on yes/no on the popup dialog but the value are not submitted and the data model do not change.
Solution 4: Sendind an ActionEvent on the button when user has made his selection
    <af:document id="d1">
      <af:messages id="m1"/>
      <af:form id="f1">
        <af:panelFormLayout id="pfl1">
          <af:inputDate value="#{bindings.Datedeb.inputValue}" label="From:" required="#{bindings.Datedeb.hints.mandatory}" shortDesc="#{bindings.Datedeb.hints.tooltip}" id="id2">
            <f:validator binding="#{bindings.Datedeb.validator}"/>
            <af:convertDateTime pattern="#{bindings.Datedeb.format}"/>
          </af:inputDate>
       <!-- ... -->
          <f:facet name="footer">
            <af:group id="g1">
              <af:commandButton text="Submit" id="cb1" binding="#{backingBeanScope.dialogBackingBean.cb1}">
                <af:showPopupBehavior popupId="p1" />
                <af:returnActionListener/>
              </af:commandButton>
              <af:popup id="p1">
                <af:dialog id="d2" title="Assistance" type="yesNo" dialogListener="#{backingBeanScope.dialogBackingBean.mustClosePreviousAddress}">
                  <af:outputText value="Do you want to close the previous adress automatically ? " id="ot1"/>
                </af:dialog>
              </af:popup>
            </af:group>
          </f:facet>
        </af:panelFormLayout>
      </af:form>
    </af:document>
  public void mustClosePreviousAddress(DialogEvent dialogEvent)
    //Business logic
    cb1.queueEvent(new ActionEvent(cb1));
  }The same as foor the third solution, it looks like it work and close the dialog when click on yes/no on the popup dialog but the value are not submitted and the data model do not change.
I've verified with an actionListener, the actionEvent received when the user click on the button is exactly the same as the one i've dispatched manually.
Can you help me with a solution adressing this issue?
Best regards,
Alex

Answer 1

Mmm something like this ?
    public void newDialogListener(DialogEvent dialogEvent) {
        if (dialogEvent.getOutcome().name().equals("ok")) {
            this.getBindings().getOperationBinding("Commit").execute();
                // Do something
    }