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ADF 11g – implementing conditionally required input fields – by playing client side hide and seek
7The requirement I was dealing with today in ADF 11g Rich Client Components was the following: we have an input field that is required under certain conditions. Only when one of this cluster of fields has a value, is it required. Otherwise it is optional. The use case was that the fields represent a detail record. There does not need to be a detail record (optional) but if there is one (one of the fields in the detailrecord has a value), then certain fields are mandatory.
The desire was to dynamically set the required-ness of the inputText – depending on whether one of the items in the detail record cluster has a value or not. Dynamically means that when something changes with one of the items, the conditionally required item is immediately refreshed to either required or optional.
It turned out to be fairly easy to implement: the required attribute can be set using an EL expression that refers to a bean method. In the bean we can easily check the values of the other items and determine whether or not based on that assessment the inputText component is mandatory or not. By setting autoSubmit to true for all the items that determine the mandatoriness – and by adding the More >
ADF 11g – Validation of Uploaded Files with the inputFile component
Today we had a little issue with the inputFile component in ADF 11g, especially with its behavior after failed validation. Our situation: the inputFile component has autoSubmit set to true – so immediately after selecting a file in the browser dialog is the upload started in an asynchronous request. Validation is performed, either from validators or in a valueChangeListener (because I was too lazy to look up the syntax for a validator).
The behavior of the inputFile component is such that after the initial upload, the name of the uploaded file is shown as a read only value and the browse button is replaced by an update button: we can change the file, but not perform the initial upload anymore. When the user presses the update button, a small pop up appears in which we can browse for a file, click on the OK button to have it uploaded or click on Cancel to have the update aborted.
Unfortunately, when the file that was initially uploaded has failed validation, the OK button in this popup does not allow us to actually upload the newly selected file. The page continues to display the uploaded, invalid file and the update of that file to resolve the validation errors can not be More >
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