Extending VO in SSHR

Question

Requirements:
Client currently uses the phone with type "Ext" to feed into phone system. They want to use the Employee Self Service "Personal Information" functions to allow employees to update their phone numbers, but not allow them to update the phone number with type "Extention".
I determined that the VO on the /oracle/apps/per/selfservice/personalinformation/webui/PhoneNumbersPG is oracle.apps.per.selfservice.personalinformation.server.PhoneNumbersUpdateVO
I extended this VO and omit records with a type of "Ext".
This seems to work, however now if the user tries to insert a new record, it fails with a java.lang.NullPointerException.
I turned on logging and decompiled oracle.apps.per.selfservice.personalinformation.server.PhoneNumbersUpdateVORowImpl It appears to fail on the following line of code:
localDate = new Date(getEffectiveDate().dateValue());
Does anybody have an idea as to why this would happen??
Am I taking the correct approach with this requirement?

Answer 1

Okay, after looking further into it... the code inside the seeded PhoneNumbersUpdateVORowImpl had the following:
String str3 = (String)localOADBTransaction.getValue("HrCommonSubFlowNameOab");
if ((str3 != null) && (str3 == "HrCommonCobraOab"))
str5 = (String)localOADBTransaction.getValue("HrLfEvntOcrdDtOab");
long l1 = SSHRDate.getDtAsLong(localOADBTransaction.getCurrentDBDate().dateValue());
localDate = new Date(localOADBTransaction.getCurrentDBDate().dateValue());
long l2 = SSHRDate.getDtAsLong(SSHRDate.getDate(str5, canonicalMask));
if ((str5 != null) && (l2 < l1))
str5 = SSHRDate.getString(SSHRDate.getDate(str5, canonicalMask), dashDelimitedMask);
localDate = new Date(str5);
else if (bool2) {
if (localOADBTransaction.getValue("HrBasicHireDateOab") != null)
localDate = new Date((String)localOADBTransaction.getValue("HrBasicHireDateOab"));
else
localDate = new Date(OANavigation.getItemAttrText((OADBTransactionImpl)localOADBTransaction, this.pItemType, this.pItemKey, "P_EFFECTIVE_DATE"));
else
localDate = new Date(getEffectiveDate().dateValue());
Furthermore, the getEffectiveDate() method doesn't simply return getAttributeInternal. It uses SSHRParams. So, either the effective date wasn't getting set or the code above wasn't getting executed because the str3 == HrCommonCobraOab. Now, I don't know where or when this gets set, but I am going to look into it.
Either way, we want to use today's date as the effective date, so I just used the following code in my getEffectiveDate() method:
Date myDate = new Date();
return myDate;