Throw new OAException stops further processing ?

Question

i have a fireAction on a page attribute that i am handling in the processFormRequest. in here i am doing some validation and throwing a OAException with message type OAException.ERROR . my understanding is this should cause the page processing to halt. instead, i see that even tho the error message is displayed on top of the page, further processing happens . also, if say user enters data in that field and instead of tabbing out (which causes the action to fire) just clicks Save, then the action on the field fires first, displays the error msg, BUT then continues with the SAVE.
can someone confirm for me what should be the expected behavior when you throw a OAException and could i be seeing the above behavior because i do not have a EO (page based on just a complex query VO but with enterable fields). ?
thank you.
CORRECTION - the exception does stop the processing for that specific fireaction in which it was thrown, HOWEVER, how do i PREVENT the user from leaving the field until he has fixed the offending data attribute. Like i said earlier after the exception, if the user hits the Save, that goes thru just fine (and the bad data gets saved).....
Edited by: user11972136 on Feb 3, 2013 10:45 AM

Answer 1

Hi,
What you can try is, associate a FIRE ACTION event with your text field and as soon as the user input the value and tab out, do the validation in Process Form Request. If there is any error in the input value, then redirect it to the Process Request, and execute the below code.
OAMessageTextInputBean inputBean = (OAMessageTextInputBean) webBean.findChildRecursive("NameInputTextFieldId");
inputBean.setText(pageContext, "");
OABodyBean oabean = (OABodyBean)pageContext.getRootWebBean();
oabean.setInitialFocusId("NameInputTextFieldId");
The above two statements will actually clear the value of your text field and set the focus on the same field.
Once you have set the focus on the field then you can throw the exception to the user using the "throw" clause.
Regards,
Saurabh Agrawal