How to set current row in table after use tab key on inputText

Question

Hello all,
My first post .., I'm newbie in ADF and I will try to explain my problem.
For the moment we use ADF 11g (11.1.1.4), in a jsff page I have a table with an inputText column.
On the valueChangeListener of the inputText, I invoke a method in a viewScope bean which call an EJB method, make some services in the EJB on the line modified. After that I refresh the VO and the table (because others values on the line have been modified) and reset the focus on the same inputText modified by the user with javaScript because focus was lost after refresh.
So far, everything works fine.
When I use the arrow keys to change the selected row in the table, it's work fine (focus is still in the next or previous inputText), but if user try to use tab key to change the current line, the inputText on the next line have the focus but the current row of the table is not changed (I think it's normal).
My question : how can I change the current row after tab key pressed in this case ?
I don't know if it's really clear, not easy to explain, don't hesitate to ask more details.
Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Frank Nimphius wrote:
Hi,
My question : how can I change the current row after tab key pressed in this case ?
Use a client event to listen for the keyboard entry and intercept the tab. The use af:serverListener to call the server to set the rowKey on the table and issue a PPR for the table to re-paint
See sample 11 on http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/developer-tools/adf/learnmore/index-101235.html#CodeCornerSamples
to learn about how to use the client listener and server listener
FrankHi,
Thanks a lot for your advices, I used the client and server listener
I used this code on the method call in order to change the selection after key tab pressed, I don't know if it can be easier, but it works.
          if (LOGGER.isDebugEnabled()) {
          LOGGER.debug("START changeSelectedRow");
          RowKeySet oldRowKeySet = myTable.getSelectedRowKeys(); // get oldRowKeySet
          if (oldRowKeySet == null) {
               if (LOGGER.isDebugEnabled()) {
                    LOGGER.debug("oldRowKeySet is null");
               return;
          RowKeySetImpl newRowKeySet = new RowKeySetImpl(); // The new RowKeySet use to change the selectedRow
          DCIteratorBinding bindingIterator = ADFUtils.findIterator(MY_ITERATOR);
          bindingIterator.setRangeSize(-1);
          // set the new index of the current row.
          int index = bindingIterator.getCurrentRowIndexInRange();
          if (index < bindingIterator.getAllRowsInRange().length - 1) {
               index++;
          bindingIterator.setCurrentRowIndexInRange(index);
          // get the current row after changed the index
          Row currentRow = bindingIterator.getCurrentRow();
          if (currentRow != null) {
               ArrayList nextLst = new ArrayList(1);
               nextLst.add(currentRow.getKey());
               newRowKeySet.add(nextLst);
               // set the new selectedRow
               myTable.setSelectedRowKeys(newRowKeySet);
               SelectionEvent selectionEvent = new SelectionEvent(oldRowKeySet, newRowKeySet, myTable);
               selectionEvent.queue();
               AdfFacesContext.getCurrentInstance().addPartialTarget(myTable);
          if (LOGGER.isDebugEnabled()) {
               LOGGER.debug("END changeSelectedRow");
Best Regards
Benjamin