Getting data from view object into backing bean

Question

Hi,
My requirement is explained below -
     I have a ADF editable table in a jsf page which is connected to backend database table. In the table there are 6 columns and only 2 are editable. So when user inputs a value in first input column an event is triggered such that the data for all the remaining columns should be fetched from another database table.
Typically if we are not using ADF development environment. We would have had a simple business method which creates the sql query by taking the input from textbox with simple where clause and I would have got the data. I am not getting any idea how to do this in ADF. I have the second table as view object but how to access the view object from backing bean and get data based on the input given.

Answer 1

Hi,
step 1) Expose a method on the ViewObject Impl class
step 2) define arguments for the method as needed to identify the row to read data from
step 3) retrieve the row from the VO that holds the data you want to add and return a HashMap with this information
step 4) expose the method on the client interface (Java menu selection on the View Object)
step 5) In the PageDef file, create a method binding to the method you exposed on the ViewObjectImpl
step 6) Call the method binding from the managed bean like
OperationBinding getDataFromVO = (OperationBinding) BindingContext.getCurrent().getCurrentBindingsEntry().get("Name of method binding);
getDataFromVO.getParamsMap().put("name of arguments1", value1);
getDataFromVO.getParamsMap().put("name of arguments2", value2);
Object retData = getDataFromVO.execute();
if(retData != null && getDataFromVO.getErrors().size()==0){
  HashMap retDataMap = (HashMap) retData;
... follow the rest of your logic ....
Frank