RE: [iPlanet-JATO] Href click & tiled view display

Question

Srinivas,
I hope that I am not oversimplifying your first question; repost if I do not
answer your question. Independent of JATO, HTML Form button sumbits will
include the scraping of data off the form input fields; the data will passed
as part of the body of the HTTP request. Therefore, you would expect to
receive all your inputs during the Button submit. In the case of a button,
a HTTP POST request is invoked. Href clicks, only submit the NVPs which are
encoded on the HREF URL. Therefore, it is impossible (under normal
circumstances) to retrieve the inputs from the FORM during the Href click.
In the case of a Href, a HTTP GET request is invoked. Some customers have
used a pattern in which Javascript is used to capture the Href onClick()
event to perform some runtime modifications to the HREF URL before the HTTP
GET request is submitted. I recommend to always have the LogProxy2 utility
running during development so that the HTTP requests and repsonses can be
debugged. If you setup the LogProxy2 (downloadable from this Group's Files
repository) then you would see the HTTP requests in the LogProxy2's console
window.
TiledView question: Remember, each TiledView requires a "primary
DatasetModel" which it uses for iteration of the tiles. It can be
confusing, but the API call of
<ContainerView>.getDefaultModel()
has no relation to the implementation class called DefaultModel. See the
Javadoc (excerp below)
/migtoolbox-1.1.1/doc/jato/api/com/iplanet/jato/view/ContainerView.html#getD
efaultModel()
"Returns this view's default model. The default model is typically used by
DisplayField children for default value storage (if they are not bound to
any other model). This method should always return a valid model instance.
Note that the default model need not be an actual instance of DefaultModel,
although this is usually the case."
Both of your TiledView's (inner and outer) are ContainerViews, each having
their own property for [get/set]DefaultModel(). Likewise, the ViewBean
parent of the outer TiledView is a ContainerView as well. With these facts
in mind, consider the behavior of the ModelManager. The ModelManager will
ensure that only once instance of specifically named model will be provided
during a request scope. Therefore, everytime that you make a call to
<ModelManager>.getModel(SomeModel.class)
no matter how many times you make this call during a request, the
ModelManager will ensure that you get the same object reference back.
Implicitly, you are asking for a Model with the exclusive name of
<ModelManager>.getDefaultModelInstanceName(SomeModel.class)
I believe that your problem is that you have the Primary Model of both the
inner and outer TiledView's set to the same instance of the DefaultModel
class. Therefore, the TiledViews are tripping over each other because they
are using the same Primary model. What I would do is change the constructor
of each TiledView to set an exclusive Primary model
// add to constructor of outer TileView
setPrimaryModel(getModelI(DefaultModel.class,"outer")
// add to constructor of inner TileView
setPrimaryModel(getModelI(DefaultModel.class,"inner")
remember to set the "size" of the Primary Model appropriately in the
beginDisplay() event of each TiledView before calling super.beginDisplay()
matt
-----Original Message-----
From: Srinivas Chikkam [mailto:<a href="/group/SunONE-JATO/post?protectID=061212020185082096169232190043244089032032196034013195172049230091142254099102">srinivas.chikkam@w...</a>]
Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2001 7:36 AM
Subject: [iPlanet-JATO] Href click & tiled view display
Hi,
I'm facing the following two problems in JATO. Your help will be
appreciated.
1) Clicking a HREF.
I have a button and a href in a page. When I submit the page by
clicking the button, I'm able to
get all the user entered data (form elements) in handler method.
However, when I click
the href and I try to retrieve the data entered by the user in my
corresponding handler method, I'm
getting blank values.
How would I be able to get the user entered data upon clicking of a href
? I'm copying the sample
code for your reference.
// This returns me 5 values entered in the 5 tiles by the user.
public void handleBButtonRequest(RequestContext req)
throws ServletException, IOException
try
System.out.println("button clicked..");
pgSampleTiledView tiledView = getSampleTile();
System.out.println("\n\n\n\n@@@@@@@@@@@ No of tiles >>>
"+tiledView.getNumTiles());
int n = tiledView.getNumTiles();
for (int i=0; i<n; i++)
tiledView.setTileIndex(i);
System.out.println(i+".
"+tiledView.getTbValue().getValue().toString());
this.forwardTo(req);
catch (Exception ex)
ex.printStackTrace();
// This returns me 0 tiles and doesn't get into for loop
public void handleLinkModifyDistributionRequest(RequestContext req )
throws ServletException, IOException
try
System.out.println("href clicked..");
pgSampleTiledView tiledView = getSampleTile();
System.out.println("\n\n\n\n@@@@@@@@@@@ No of tiles >>>
"+tiledView.getNumTiles());
int n = tiledView.getNumTiles();
for (int i=0; i<n; i++)
tiledView.setTileIndex(i);
System.out.println(i+".
"+tiledView.getTbValue().getValue().toString());
this.forwardTo(req);
catch (Exception ex)
ex.printStackTrace();
2) Tiled view display
I have tiled view inside another tiled view. Based upon the data
retrieved from the database, lets say, the outer tile needs to be
displayed twice and the inner tile 3 times and 1 time.
For Ex: Lets say, the desired output from these tiled views is as
follows
STOCK INVESTMENT
stock name1
stock name2
stock name3
OTHER INVESTMENT
other investment1
The outer tiled view displays the investment type headings (STOCK
INVESTMENT or OTHER INVESTMENT) and inner tile
displays the actual stock names or the other investment names. Both
the tile views are bound to a default model. In the begin display
of these tiled view I'm setting the size of the model as
getPrimaryModel.setSize(requiredsize).
If i display 3 records in the inner tiled view in the first iteration
and i try to display 1 record in the second iteration, it displays 3
records
properly the first time but it doesn't display any records second
time. super.nextTile() returns false right away second time.
But If I try to display 1 record in the first iteration and 3 records in
the second iteration as below, it works fine.
STOCK INVESTMENT
stock name1
OTHER INVESTMENT
other investment1
other investment2
other investment3
Please let me know what could be the problem.
Thanks
~ Srinivas
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Answer 1

should read
// add to constructor of outer TileView
setPrimaryModel(getModel(DefaultModel.class,"outer");
// add to constructor of inner TileView
setPrimaryModel(getModel(DefaultModel.class,"inner");
matt
-----Original Message-----
From: Matthew Stevens [mailto:<a href="/group/SunONE-JATO/post?protectID=029166114165042198028082000056130080177026031196061123241150194211220076086020224">matthew.stevens@e...</a>]
Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2001 9:25 AM
Subject: RE: [iPlanet-JATO] Href click & tiled view display
Srinivas,
I hope that I am not oversimplifying your first question; repost
if I do not
answer your question. Independent of JATO, HTML Form button sumbits will
include the scraping of data off the form input fields; the data
will passed
as part of the body of the HTTP request. Therefore, you would expect to
receive all your inputs during the Button submit. In the case of
a button,
a HTTP POST request is invoked. Href clicks, only submit the
NVPs which are
encoded on the HREF URL. Therefore, it is impossible (under normal
circumstances) to retrieve the inputs from the FORM during the Href click.
In the case of a Href, a HTTP GET request is invoked. Some customers have
used a pattern in which Javascript is used to capture the Href onClick()
event to perform some runtime modifications to the HREF URL
before the HTTP
GET request is submitted. I recommend to always have the
LogProxy2 utility
running during development so that the HTTP requests and repsonses can be
debugged. If you setup the LogProxy2 (downloadable from this
Group's Files
repository) then you would see the HTTP requests in the
LogProxy2's console
window.
TiledView question: Remember, each TiledView requires a "primary
DatasetModel" which it uses for iteration of the tiles. It can be
confusing, but the API call of
<ContainerView>.getDefaultModel()
has no relation to the implementation class called DefaultModel. See the
Javadoc (excerp below)
/migtoolbox-1.1.1/doc/jato/api/com/iplanet/jato/view/ContainerView
.html#getD
efaultModel()
"Returns this view's default model. The default model is typically used by
DisplayField children for default value storage (if they are not bound to
any other model). This method should always return a valid model instance.
Note that the default model need not be an actual instance of
DefaultModel,
although this is usually the case."
Both of your TiledView's (inner and outer) are ContainerViews, each having
their own property for [get/set]DefaultModel(). Likewise, the ViewBean
parent of the outer TiledView is a ContainerView as well. With
these facts
in mind, consider the behavior of the ModelManager. The ModelManager will
ensure that only once instance of specifically named model will
be provided
during a request scope. Therefore, everytime that you make a call to
<ModelManager>.getModel(SomeModel.class)
no matter how many times you make this call during a request, the
ModelManager will ensure that you get the same object reference back.
Implicitly, you are asking for a Model with the exclusive name of
<ModelManager>.getDefaultModelInstanceName(SomeModel.class)
I believe that your problem is that you have the Primary Model of both the
inner and outer TiledView's set to the same instance of the DefaultModel
class. Therefore, the TiledViews are tripping over each other
because they
are using the same Primary model. What I would do is change the
constructor
of each TiledView to set an exclusive Primary model
// add to constructor of outer TileView
setPrimaryModel(getModelI(DefaultModel.class,"outer")
// add to constructor of inner TileView
setPrimaryModel(getModelI(DefaultModel.class,"inner")
remember to set the "size" of the Primary Model appropriately in the
beginDisplay() event of each TiledView before calling super.beginDisplay()
matt
-----Original Message-----
From: Srinivas Chikkam [mailto:<a href="/group/SunONE-JATO/post?protectID=061212020185082096169232190043244089032032196034013195172049230091142254099102">srinivas.chikkam@w...</a>]
Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2001 7:36 AM
Subject: [iPlanet-JATO] Href click & tiled view display
Hi,
I'm facing the following two problems in JATO. Your help will be
appreciated.
1) Clicking a HREF.
I have a button and a href in a page. When I submit the page by
clicking the button, I'm able to
get all the user entered data (form elements) in handler method.
However, when I click
the href and I try to retrieve the data entered by the user in my
corresponding handler method, I'm
getting blank values.
How would I be able to get the user entered data upon clicking of a href
? I'm copying the sample
code for your reference.
// This returns me 5 values entered in the 5 tiles by the user.
public void handleBButtonRequest(RequestContext req)
throws ServletException, IOException
try
System.out.println("button clicked..");
pgSampleTiledView tiledView = getSampleTile();
System.out.println("\n\n\n\n@@@@@@@@@@@ No of tiles >>>
"+tiledView.getNumTiles());
int n = tiledView.getNumTiles();
for (int i=0; i<n; i++)
tiledView.setTileIndex(i);
System.out.println(i+".
"+tiledView.getTbValue().getValue().toString());
this.forwardTo(req);
catch (Exception ex)
ex.printStackTrace();
// This returns me 0 tiles and doesn't get into for loop
public void handleLinkModifyDistributionRequest(RequestContext req )
throws ServletException, IOException
try
System.out.println("href clicked..");
pgSampleTiledView tiledView = getSampleTile();
System.out.println("\n\n\n\n@@@@@@@@@@@ No of tiles >>>
"+tiledView.getNumTiles());
int n = tiledView.getNumTiles();
for (int i=0; i<n; i++)
tiledView.setTileIndex(i);
System.out.println(i+".
"+tiledView.getTbValue().getValue().toString());
this.forwardTo(req);
catch (Exception ex)
ex.printStackTrace();
2) Tiled view display
I have tiled view inside another tiled view. Based upon the data
retrieved from the database, lets say, the outer tile needs to be
displayed twice and the inner tile 3 times and 1 time.
For Ex: Lets say, the desired output from these tiled views is as
follows
STOCK INVESTMENT
stock name1
stock name2
stock name3
OTHER INVESTMENT
other investment1
The outer tiled view displays the investment type headings (STOCK
INVESTMENT or OTHER INVESTMENT) and inner tile
displays the actual stock names or the other investment names. Both
the tile views are bound to a default model. In the begin display
of these tiled view I'm setting the size of the model as
getPrimaryModel.setSize(requiredsize).
If i display 3 records in the inner tiled view in the first iteration
and i try to display 1 record in the second iteration, it displays 3
records
properly the first time but it doesn't display any records second
time. super.nextTile() returns false right away second time.
But If I try to display 1 record in the first iteration and 3 records in
the second iteration as below, it works fine.
STOCK INVESTMENT
stock name1
OTHER INVESTMENT
other investment1
other investment2
other investment3
Please let me know what could be the problem.
Thanks
~ Srinivas
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