ADFHow to Bring Common UI Patterns to ADF

Luc Bors, AMIS, The NetherlandsWednesday, June 27, 2012 ODTUG KScope 12San Antonio, Texas, USA

UI PATTERNS

Pattern Name

Problem statement

Use when ?Solution

Examples

Pattern Description

FUSION APPS PATTERNS

RECOGNIZE THESE ?

ADF Train Taskflow

RECOGNIZE THESE ?

ADF Breadcrums

TABBED NAVIGATION

TABBED NAVIGATION

ADF UI Tabshell

CLOSE ALL / CLOSE OTHERS

CLOSE ALL / CLOSE OTHERS

CLOSE ALL / CLOSE OTHERS

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CAN YOU DO THIS IN ADF ?

Create the menu

Invoke the menu

Close the tab(s)

CREATE THE CONTEXT MENU

<af:popup id="contextMenu" contentDelivery="lazyUncached" eventContext="launcher" launcherVar="source"><af:menu id="men1" text="#{source.attributes.menuInvokedOnTab}"> <af:commandMenuItem id="cmi1" text="close“ actionListener="#{viewScope.jhsDynTabContext.closeThis}"> <af:setPropertyListener from="#{source.attributes.menuInvokedOnTab}" to="#{viewScope.jhsDynTabContext.menuInvokedOnTab}" type="action"/> </af:commandMenuItem> <af:commandMenuItem id="cmi2" text="close others“ actionListener="#{viewScope.jhsDynTabContext.closeOthers}">……. </af:commandMenuItem> <af:commandMenuItem id="cmi3" text="close all“ actionListener="#{viewScope.jhsDynTabContext.closeAll}"> …………….. </af:commandMenuItem> </af:menu></af:popup>

INVOKING THE CONTEXT MENU

<af:navigationPane ...........> <af:commandNavigationItem ...............> <f:attribute name="tabId" value="#{tab.id}"/> <af:clientListener method="showMenu" type="contextMenu"/> <af:clientAttribute name="menuInvokedOnTab" value="#{tab.id}"/> </af:commandNavigationItem></af:navigationPane >

function showMenu(evt) { var popup = AdfPage.PAGE.findComponent("pt:contextMenu"); …………….. popup.show(hints); evt.cancel();}

USE EXISTING FUNCTIONALITY

CLOSE THIS TAB

public void closeThis(ActionEvent action) {

String id = getMenuInvokedOnTab(); List<String> tabsToRemove = new ArrayList();

for (DynTab t : getActiveTabList()) { String x = t.getId(); if (id == x) { tabsToRemove.add(x); } } for (String t : tabsToRemove) { removeTab(t); }}

CLOSE OTHER TABS

public void closeOthers(ActionEvent action) {

String id = getMenuInvokedOnTab(); List<String> tabsToRemove = new ArrayList();

for (DynTab t : getActiveTabList()) { String x = t.getId(); if (id != x) { tabsToRemove.add(x); } } for (String t : tabsToRemove) { removeTab(t); }}

CLOSE ALL

public void closeAll(ActionEvent action) {

List<String> tabsToRemove = new ArrayList();

for (DynTab t : getActiveTabList()) { tabsToRemove.add(t.getId()); } for (String t : tabsToRemove) { removeTab(t); }}

CLOSE ALL / CLOSE OTHERS

MOST RECENTLY USED (..HISTORY)

IMPLEMENTATION

• Record activities– Use setPropertyListeners

• Historybean (session scope) that manages the collection of navigation events– Display Label, Entity Type and Primary Key– bean calls …

• BusinessService to record event in database for this user– (Optional) Also remove events for deleted records!

CREATE THE BEAN

• Create History bean

<managed-bean id=“1"> <managed-bean-name id=“2"> recentHistoryBean</managed-bean-name> <managed-bean-class id=“3"> nl.amis.jsf.history.beans.RecentHistoryBean </managed-bean-class> <managed-bean-scope id=“3">session</managed-bean-scope></managed-bean>

INTERCEPT ACTIVITY

<af:commandLink id="ot3" text="#{row.LastName}" action="edit" actionListener="#{recentHistoryBean.add}"> <af:setPropertyListener from="#{row.EmployeeId}“ to="#{recentHistoryBean.entityInstanceIdentifier}" type="action"/> <af:setPropertyListener from="#{row.LastName}“ to="#{recentHistoryBean.entityInstanceDisplayLabel}" type="action"/> <af:setPropertyListener from="#{'EMP'}" to="#{recentHistoryBean.entityType}" type="action"/> </af:commandLink>

RECORD ACTIVITY

public void add(ActionEvent actionEvent) { // Add event code here... recentHistory.add(new HistoryEvent(new oracle.jbo.domain.Date() , entityType , entityInstanceIdentifier , entityInstanceDisplayLabel)); HRServiceImpl hrAppMod = (HRServiceImpl) pageTemplateBc.getDataControl().getApplicationModule(); hrAppMod.recordAndPersistHistoryEntry(recentHistory.get(0));

PERSIST ACTIVITY

public void recordAndPersistHistoryEntry(HistoryEvent event) { String statement = "RECENT_HISTORY_MANAGER.RECORD_AND_PERSIST_ENTRY(?,?,?,?)"; callStoredProcedure(statement, new Object[] {event.getEntityType() , event.getKey().toString() , event.getDisplayLabel(), null}); }

THE RESULT

DO YOU RECOGNIZE THIS ??

GOOGLE SEARCH

ADF QUERY COMPONENT ……

I want 1 search field !

Use Oracle Text

PREPARE THE DATABASE

• Make sure that the HR user is allowed to use the ctxsys.ctx_ddl package

grant EXECUTE on CTXSYS.CTX_DDL to HR

CREATE A SEARCH PACKAGE

function get_emp_search_item ( p_rowid in rowid ) return varchar2 as begin for b in (select e.first_name , e.last_name , e.email , e.phone_number , j.job_title from employees e left join jobs j using (job_id) where e.rowid = p_rowid) loop return b.first_name || ' ' || b.last_name || ' (' || b.email || ', ' || b.phone_number || ', ' || b.job_title || ')'; end loop; end get_emp_search_item;

CREATE THE ORACLE TEXT INDICES

-- Configure preferences...ctx_ddl.create_preference('emp_datastore', 'user_datastore');ctx_ddl.set_attribute('emp_datastore', 'procedure' , 'ot_search.create_emp_search_item');

-- Create the indices... execute immediate 'create index emp_search_index on employees(last_name) indextype is ctxsys.context parameters (''datastore emp_datastore wordlist wordlist lexer lexer stoplist stoplist sync (on commit)'')';

THE BASE CLASSES

• OracleTextSearchSupport: • Converts the given user input (the search command):

<code>searchValue</code> to an Oracle Text search-string.

• BaseViewObjectImpl • overrides getCriteriaItemClause(ViewCriteriaItem vci)

• BaseViewDefImpl • implementation to provide the following custom properties on

ViewObjects:• ORACLE_TEXT_SEARCH_ATTRIBUTE: To mark the column in which the seach

info is queried• ORACLE_TEXT_INDEX_ATTRIBUTE: To mark the database column on which

the index was defined in the database.

CREATE THE MODEL PROJECT

CREATE THE MODEL PROJECT

VIEWCONTROLLER : A BEAN

<managed-bean-name id="1">departmentsQuickSearch</managed-bean-name> <managed-bean-class id="4"> adfplus.quicksearch.controller.bean.QuickSearchBean </managed-bean-class> <managed-bean-scope id="2">pageFlow</managed-bean-scope> <managed-property id=“8"> <property-name id=“10">iteratorBindingName</property-name> <property-class>java.lang.String</property-class> <value id="9">DepartmentsVO1Iterator</value> </managed-property> <managed-property id="11"> <property-name id="13">searchAttribute</property-name> <property-class>java.lang.String</property-class> <value id="12">DepartmentSearchString</value> </managed-property> <managed-property id="14"> <property-name id="15">searchIteratorBindingName</property-name> <property-class>java.lang.String</property-class> <value id="16">DepartmentsVO1IteratorQuickSearch</value> </managed-property>

VIEWCONTROLLER : A SUBFORM

<af:subform id="s1" defaultCommand="cb7"> <af:panelGroupLayout id="pgl4" layout="horizontal" inlineStyle="margin:10px;"> <af:inputText label="Search" id="it2“ value="#{pageFlowScope.departmentsQuickSearch.searchValue}"> <af:autoSuggestBehavior suggestItems= "#{pageFlowScope.departmentsQuickSearch.suggestItems}" maxSuggestedItems="10"/> </af:inputText> <af:commandButton text="Search" id="cb7" action="#{pageFlowScope.departmentsQuickSearch.go}" partialSubmit="true"/> </af:panelGroupLayout></af:subform>

VIEWCONTROLLER : SEARCH METHOD

private synchronized List<SelectItem> search(String searchValue) {

DCIteratorBinding iter = getSearchIteratorBinding(); applySearchCriteria(iter, searchAttribute, searchValue);

translations.clear(); lastSuggestList = new ArrayList<SelectItem>(); lastSearchValue = searchValue;

Row[] rows = iter.getAllRowsInRange(); for (Row row : rows) { String description = (String)row.getAttribute(searchAttribute); lastSuggestList.add(new SelectItem(description)); translations.put(description, row.getKey()); }return lastSuggestList; }

THE RESULT

REAL TIME UPDATES

THE CONCEPT

THE IMPLEMENTATION; THE DATABASE

grant change notification to <user>;

REGISTER FOR DBQRCN (STEP 1)

public void startChangeNotification(){ DatabaseChangeRegistration dcr = null; String query = "SELECT * from DEPARTMENTS"; Properties prop = new Properties(); prop.setProperty(OracleConnection.DCN_NOTIFY_ROWIDS

,"true"); prop.setProperty(OracleConnection.DCN_QUERY_CHANGE_NOTIFICATION ,"true"); try { dcr = conn.registerDatabaseChangeNotification(prop); RdbmsChangeEventListener listener = new RdbmsChangeEventListener(this); dcr.addListener(listener); ………..

REGISTER FOR DBQRCN (STEP 2)

// second step: add objects in the registration: Statement stmt = conn.createStatement();

((OracleStatement)stmt).setDatabaseChangeRegistration(dcr); ResultSet rs = stmt.executeQuery(query); while (rs.next()){} rs.close(); stmt.close();

WHATS NEXT ….

Database is prepared

Queries are registered

Now its time for the UI

SETUP ACTIVE DATA COMPONENT

public void setupActiveData() { ActiveModelContext context = ActiveModelContext.getActiveModelContext(); Object[] keyPath = new String[0]; context.addActiveModelInfo( this , keyPath , "activemessage"); System.out.println("add active bean as listener"); databaseNotificationProcessor.registerAsListener(this);}

SETUP THE ACTUAL UPDATE

public void triggerDataUpdate(String message) { this.message = message; counter.incrementAndGet(); ActiveDataUpdateEvent event = ActiveDataEventUtil.buildActiveDataUpdateEvent( ActiveDataEntry.ChangeType.UPDATE, counter.get(), new String[0], null, new String[] { "activemessage" }, new Object[] { message }); System.out.println("fireActiveDataUpdate"); fireActiveDataUpdate(event); }

IMPLEMENTATION IN THE PAGE

<af:activeOutputText value="#{pageFlowScope.trackChangesBean.updates}" id="aot1" visible="false"> <af:clientListener method="activeDataCallback" type="propertyChange"/></af:activeOutputText>

<af:resource type="javascript"> activeDataCallback = function (event) { var button = AdfPage.PAGE.findComponentByAbsoluteId("pt1:r1:0:cb1"); button.setVisible(true); }</af:resource>

THE RESULT

MAGIC

PATTERNS UNDER INVESTIGATION

• Grouping Tabs• Drag and Drop Tabs in UI Shell

– dragSource and dropTarget

• Duplicating Tabs– Restarting a new instance of a taskflow

PATTERNS UNDER INVESTIGATION

• Adding Sticky Notes– dragSource and dropTarget– Contextual events

– Concept : http://technology.amis.nl• Search for: adf-11g-dragn-drop-and-contextual-events/

RESOURCES

RESOURCES

SUMMARY

If you really want it …..…ADF can do it

Think out of the box

ADFHow to Bring Common UI Patterns to ADF

Luc Bors, AMIS, The Netherlands

Luc.Bors@amis.nlLucBors@gmail.comFollow me on Twitter : @lucb_

Wednesday, June 27, 2012 ODTUG KScope 12San Antonio, Texas, USA