17 Mar 2013

Association Consistency and View Criterias

There is very powerful and useful feature in ADF BC - "association consistency". It guaranties that when we create a new entity row or update an entity attribute, this change is going to be replicated to the view objects based on this entity.
Let's say, for example, we have two view objects VListDept and VRecordDebt based on the same entity Departments. We use the VListDept view object on a browse view activity with a table component, and VRecordDebt view object is used on create/update view activities. So, when we create a new record via the VRecordDebt view object, we expect it to appear in the VListDept view object, because it is based on the same entity. This is the default framework behavior, we rely on it and design our applications in accordance with this feature.
But we should be aware of some hidden rock connected to VO's view criterias. When we apply any view critirias to a view object at run time, the framework checks whether there is any applied view criteria with the database query execution mode. And in such case the framework can not guaranty the consistency and it's going to switch the association consistency mode off at the view object level.
If we want to keep the mode working anyway, we have to set it up manually in the executeQueryForCollection VO's method:

protected void executeQueryForCollection(Object qc, Object[] params, 
         int noUserParams) {
  super.executeQueryForCollection(qc, params, noUserParams);
  setAssociationConsistent(true);
}

That's it!

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