'Strange' naming restrictions none databound items in search

Question

I have a none databound item, which I want to use for an advanced search
I want this to map to a variable in the ViewObject. I provided the query bind parameters for this in the JHS group under bindparameters.
The attribute on the ViewObject is called ‘weekNummer’.
Now what I did was create a group in JHS which is called ‘Weekoverzicht’
I added a new item on the JHS group (WeekNr), since the attribute is not databound I don’t fill the attribute name. The attribute is a choice populated by a domain.
Now when I first tried this page it failed, claiming the attrribute ‘WeekoverzichtWeekNr’ Does not exist.
Which is true ofcourse, I was looking for a way to point the none databound item to the attribute weekNummer. I could not find this option, so I decided to run it and see what happend.
What I did next is rename the attribute on the ViewObject to ‘WeekoverzichtWeekNr’ and reflect this in the query and bind parameters.
Now it works fine but the naming convention is a bit weird, It has to be named <groupname><itemname> which is a form of tight coupling I’m not really happy with.
Basically an option to ‘bind’ none databound items to an attribute directly would be very nice.
Was this intended or do I just fail at using JHS?
Anton

Answer 1

The generated jspx is the following:
Note that I added the binding post gen for supplying a dynamic default search value which I mentioned in another thread on this forum.
<af:selectOneChoice id="SearchWeekoverzichtNummer" value="#{searchWeekoverzicht.criteria.WeekoverzichtNummer}" binding="#{WeekoverzichtBacking.currentWeekYear}">
<af:forEach var="row2"  items="#{bindings.WeekData.rangeSet}" >
  <af:selectItem id="SiAsWeekoverzichtNummer" label="#{row2.Weekstring}" value="#{row2.Weeknummer}"/>
</af:forEach>
</af:selectOneChoice>  The corresponding generated bean code is the following.
<managed-bean>
  <managed-bean-name>searchWeekoverzicht</managed-bean-name>
  <managed-bean-class>oracle.jheadstart.controller.jsf.bean.JhsSearchBean</managed-bean-class>
  <managed-bean-scope>session</managed-bean-scope>
  <managed-property>
    <property-name>bindings</property-name>
    <value>#{data.WeekoverzichtPageDef}</value>
  </managed-property>
  <managed-property>
    <property-name>searchBinding</property-name>
    <value>#{data.WeekoverzichtPageDef.advancedSearchWeekoverzicht}</value>
  </managed-property>
  <managed-property>
    <property-name>searchItem</property-name>
    <value>WeekoverzichtNummer</value>
  </managed-property>
  <managed-property>
    <property-name>dataCollection</property-name>
    <value>CasWeekOverzicht</value>
  </managed-property>
  <managed-property>
    <property-name>autoquery</property-name>
    <value>false</value>
  </managed-property>
    <managed-property>
    <property-name>findModeIters</property-name>
      <list-entries>
        <value>#{data.WeekoverzichtPageDef.WeekoverzichtIterator}</value>
            </list-entries>
  </managed-property>
      <managed-property>
    <property-name>operators</property-name>
      <map-entries>
     </map-entries>
    </managed-property>
</managed-bean>Where the searchItem tag holds the value which I need to name my bind variable on the view object.
I think I called it attribute on the ViewObject earlier which is wrong ofcourse, its bind variable.
I know where to find them, but I always forget the names...
I can live with it, although its not 'pretty'