Reusable component for displaying Interactive Adobe form

Hi All,
I have created a web-dynpro component which will display the different Interactive form at runtime depending on the data passed from the host application.
Following is the process I have done for the same:
1. Create a node and attributes at runtime with the data from the source node from host application.(using node and node_info class).
2. Passing the data is a problem since it gives dump(invalid operand)
3. Creating Interactive form element at runtime (passing data like form_name, data_source...etc)
4. Adding the element on view
Here form is displayed on the screen.... However, the form is empty...(irrespective of the random data entered on in debugging mode).
I dont know what is going wrong.
Following is the code:
lo_inft_node = go_v_main_cont_node->get_child_node( `FORM_DETAILS` ).
lo_inft_node->get_static_attributes( IMPORTING static_attributes = ls_form_details ).
lo_main_node_info = go_v_main_cont_node->get_node_info( ).
CHECK ls_form_details-data IS NOT INITIAL.
lo_node_info = ls_form_details-data->get_node_info( ).
lo_rtti = lo_node_info->get_static_attributes_type( ).
lt_attributes = lo_node_info->get_attributes( ).
* lo_data_node_info = lo_main_node_info->add_new_child_node( name = `FORM_DATA` static_element_rtti = lo_rtti attributes = lt_attributes is_static = abap_false ).
lo_data_node = go_v_main_cont_node->get_child_node( `FORM_DATA` ).
lo_data_node_info = lo_data_node->get_node_info( ).
LOOP AT lt_attributes INTO ls_attributes.
 lo_data_node_info->add_attribute( ls_attributes ).
ENDLOOP.
CREATE DATA lo_stru TYPE HANDLE lo_rtti.
ASSIGN lo_stru->* TO <lfs_stru>.
ls_form_details-data->get_static_attributes( IMPORTING static_attributes = <lfs_stru> ).
lo_data_node = go_v_main_cont_node->get_child_node( `FORM_DATA` ).
lo_data_node_info = lo_data_node->get_node_info( ).
lo_rtti_dest = lo_node_info->get_static_attributes_type( ).
CREATE DATA lo_stru_dest TYPE HANDLE lo_rtti_dest.
ASSIGN lo_stru_dest->* TO <lfs_stru_dest>.
* MOVE-CORRESPONDING <lfs_stru> to <lfs_stru_dest>.
lo_data_node->set_static_attributes( static_attributes = <lfs_stru> ).
* IF lo_data_node IS BOUND.
* DATA: lo_el_data_node TYPE REF TO if_wd_context_element.
* lo_el_data_node = lo_data_node->bind_structure( new_item = <lfs_stru> ).
* lo_el_data_node->set_static_attributes( static_attributes = <lfs_stru> ).
* lo_data_node->set_static_attributes( static_attributes = <lfs_stru> ).
* ENDIF.
* lo_data_node->get_static_attributes( IMPORTING static_attributes = <lfs_stru> ).
me->gd_data_path = lo_data_node->get_meta_path( ).
DATA: ld_offset.
FIND FIRST OCCURRENCE OF '.' IN me->gd_data_path MATCH OFFSET ld_offset.
ADD 1 TO ld_offset.
me->gd_data_path = me->gd_data_path+ld_offset.
CHECK ls_form_details-form_name IS NOT INITIAL AND
 me->gd_data_path IS NOT INITIAL.
* lo_form_disp ?= go_v_main_view->get_element( `PRINT_FORM` ).
* CHECK lo_form_disp IS BOUND.
* lo_form_disp->set_template_source( ls_form_details-form_name ).
* lo_form_disp->bind_data_source( me->gd_data_path ).
lo_form_disp = cl_wd_interactive_form=>new_interactive_form( bind_data_source = me->gd_data_path display_type = cl_wd_interactive_form=>e_display_type-native height = '800' read_only = abap_true template_source = ls_form_details-form_name view =
go_v_main_view width = '100%' pdf_source =
me->gd_pdf_source ).
IF lo_form_disp IS BOUND.
 lo_flow_data = cl_wd_flow_data=>new_flow_data( element = lo_form_disp ).
ENDIF.
lo_container ?= go_v_main_view->get_element( 'ROOTUIELEMENTCONTAINER' ).
IF lo_container IS BOUND.
 lo_container->add_child( lo_form_disp ).
ENDIF.
Awaiting some replies....
Cheers,
Kunjal

Hi All,
Any updates please?

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