Book Marking ADF View Activities

Book Marking is possible only for the Unbounded TaskFlow view activities.For this we need to make the page as bookmarkable. Run time you can identify the view activity as book mark-able by the method ViewBookMarkable().URL parameters can be created to a view activity designated as book markable.URL parameter can be created using EL expressions .There is an option to provide an optional method which will get execute before rendering the view activity.Also there is an option to provide converter to each URL parameter for conversion and validating the input parameters.

Create a bounded task flow

Create a managed bean on PageFlowScope.

package test.view;

public class BookMarkable {

    private String idTest="Test1";

    private String valueTest="Test2";

    private String IdConverter;

    public void setIdConverter(String IdConverter) {

        System.out.println("setIdConverter");

           

        this.IdConverter = IdConverter;

    }

    public String getIdConverter() {

        System.out.println("getIdConverter");

        return IdConverter;

    }

    public void setIdTest(String idTest) {

        this.idTest = idTest;

    }

    public String getIdTest() {

        return idTest;

    }

    public void setValueTest(String valueTest) {

        this.valueTest = valueTest;

    }

    public String getValueTest() {

        return valueTest;

    }

 

    public BookMarkable() {

        super();

    }

  

    public void  someMethod() {

        System.out.println("Som method executed ....");

       

    }

}

Code for book_view1.jspx

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>

<jsp:root xmlns:jsp="http://java.sun.com/JSP/Page" version="2.1" xmlns:f="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core"

          xmlns:af="http://xmlns.oracle.com/adf/faces/rich">

    <jsp:directive.page contentType="text/html;charset=UTF-8"/>

    <f:view>

        <af:document title="book_view1.jspx" id="d1">

            <af:form id="f1">

                <af:panelGroupLayout id="pgl1">

                    <af:outputText value="#{pageFlowScope.BookMarkable.idTest}" id="ot1"/>

                    <af:outputText value="#{pageFlowScope.BookMarkable.valueTest}" id="ot2"/>

                </af:panelGroupLayout>

            </af:form>

        </af:document>

    </f:view>

</jsp:root>

Define the bookmark properties after selecting the view activity from the task flow 

Creating the converter 

Create a class implementing .adf.controller.UrlParameterConverter

package test.view;

import oracle.adf.controller.UrlParameterConverter;

public class BokMarkURLConverter implements UrlParameterConverter {

    public BokMarkURLConverter() {

        super();

    }

    @Override

    public Object getAsObject(String string) {

        System.out.println("String ="+string);

        // TODO Implement this method

        return null;

    }

    @Override

    public String getAsString(Object object) {

        System.out.println("Object ="+object);

        // TODO Implement this method

        return null;

    }

}

Method getAsObject() and getAsString() is used for validation and conversion. You can create a separate classes for each URL parameters.

Run the page.

Access the page with the url parameters as below and you can see the parameters printed in the screen

http://127.0.0.1:7101/TaskFlowIntro-ViewController-context-root/faces/book_view1?urlParameter1=Test1&urlParameter2=Test2