JDev 11g TP4: ADF tables and ADF form pop-ups PPR?

Question

I was hoping somebody could help me with the following please.
I'm currently having a bit of an issue with ADF tables and ADF forms embedded in a pop-up, where the wrong record is shown in the popup. I suspect it's a PPR problem but am unsure. My scenario:
1) I have the following table:
CREATE TABLE "CHRIS_MUIR_DELETE_ME" (
"ID" NUMBER(5,0)
"SOME_COLUMN" VARCHAR2(20 BYTE)
CONSTRAINT "CHRIS_MUIR_DELETE_ME_PK" PRIMARY KEY ("ID"));2) I have a default ADF BC EO/VO combination for this table.
3) I have an ADF Faces RC page with a read-only table based on this VO:
<af:table value="#{bindings.ChrisMuirDeleteMeView.collectionModel}" var="row"
   rows="#{bindings.ChrisMuirDeleteMeView.rangeSize}"
   emptyText="#{bindings.ChrisMuirDeleteMeView.viewable ? 'No rows yet.' : 'Access Denied.'}"
   fetchSize="#{bindings.ChrisMuirDeleteMeView.rangeSize}"
   selectedRowKeys="#{bindings.ChrisMuirDeleteMeView.collectionModel.selectedRow}"
   selectionListener="#{bindings.ChrisMuirDeleteMeView.collectionModel.makeCurrent}"
   rowSelection="single" partialTriggers="myDialog">
  <af:column sortProperty="Id" sortable="false"
    headerText="#{bindings.ChrisMuirDeleteMeView.hints.Id.label}">
     <af:outputText value="#{row.Id}">
        <af:convertNumber groupingUsed="false" pattern="#{bindings.ChrisMuirDeleteMeView.hints.Id.format}"/>
     </af:outputText>
  </af:column>
  <af:column sortProperty="SomeColumn" sortable="false"
     headerText="#{bindings.ChrisMuirDeleteMeView.hints.SomeColumn.label}">
    <af:outputText value="#{row.SomeColumn}"/>
  </af:column>
</af:table>Note that rowSelection is set to "single".
3) The page also includes a popup-dialog combo that shows the same data from the table (ie. they're based on the same VO) as an ADF Input Form:
<af:popup id="myPopUp">
  <af:dialog type="okCancel" id="myDialog">
     <af:panelFormLayout>
        <af:inputText value="#{bindings.Id.inputValue}"
            label="#{bindings.Id.hints.label}"
            required="#{bindings.Id.hints.mandatory}">
           <f:validator binding="#{bindings.Id.validator}"/>
           <af:convertNumber groupingUsed="false" pattern="#{bindings.Id.format}"/>
        </af:inputText>
        <af:inputText value="#{bindings.SomeColumn.inputValue}"
            label="#{bindings.SomeColumn.hints.label}"
            required="#{bindings.SomeColumn.hints.mandatory}"/>
        </af:inputText>
     </af:panelFormLayout>
  </af:dialog>
</af:popup>Note that the table's partialTriggers is set to the id of the dialog. This implies on return from the dialog, the table will update itself to reflect any changes.
4) I have a data bound Create commandButton, + a simple Edit commandButton. The Edit button includes an <af:showPopupBehavior> to display the popup:
<af:commandButton
    actionListener="#{bindings.Create.execute}" text="Create"
    disabled="#{!bindings.Create.enabled}"
    partialTriggers="table1"/>
<af:commandButton text="Edit">
    <af:showPopupBehavior popupId="myPopUp"/>
</af:commandButton>If you run the form with the following steps, you can reproduce my issue:
1) Click the create button, this will create a blank record in the <af:table>
2) Click the edit button and give the 2 fields values, press ok. Note this is reflected back in the table.
3) Click the create button, you will now see another blank record in the <af:table>. Note that the current row selection highlight is on the new record.
4) In the table select the original record, then the Edit button. Oddly the input form is showing the blank record, not the original record even though we selected it in the <af:table>
This implies to me that I have to hook up a PPR event such that the fields on the popup know to update themselves when the user selects a new row in the table.
I've tried setting the partialTriggers property for the popup, dialog and individual fields on the popup page to the table id, but this doesn't seem to work.
Does anybody have any suggestions on how I'm meant to hook up the partialTriggers in this case? I'm at a bit of a loss to know what to do to solve this issue. Is it possible the table selectionListener isn't working?
Thanks for your help in advance.
Regards,
CM.

Answer 1

G'day gang
This morning I had a chance to play with Pavle's suggestions, specifically the popup contentDelivery option, and it's solved the issue. Specifically changing the contentDelivery option to lazyUncached was the golden solution.
As the popup component help states, the default functionality is: "lazy -- the default strategy described above. The content isn't loaded until you show the popup once, but then is cached."
....cached being the issue I was seeing.....
While the lazyUncached options states: "lazyUncached -- the content isn't loaded until you show the popup, and then is re-fetched every subsequent time you show the popup. Use this strategy if the popup shows data that can become stale."
The nasty thing about the lazy option is the fact that in the dialog it can show the previous cached result (even though you've selected a different record), and you can even appear to edit that cached result in the dialog, but when you press okay in the dialog and return to the previous table, it's updated the record you selected, not the cached result.
Confusing, but not a bug if you understand the popup contentDelivery options.
Frank, if you'd like it, I have the simple test case available to send you. But as it's not a bug I wont send it to you unless requested.
Thanks to both of you for your assistance with this one. Once again your help is much appreciated! :)
I'll take time out to blog about this in the next few weeks to assist others.
Thanks & regards,
CM.