How-to dynamically filter model-driven LOV

Often developers need to filter a LOV query with information obtained from an ADF Faces form or other where. The sample below shows how to define a launch popup listener configured on the launchPopupListener property of the af:inputListOfValues component to filter a list of values.

<af:inputListOfValues id="departmentIdId"
   value="#{bindings.DepartmentId.inputValue}"                                      
   model="#{bindings.DepartmentId.listOfValuesModel}"
   launchPopupListener="#{PopupLauncher.onPopupLaunch}" … >      
   …
</af:inputListOfValues>

A list of values is queried using a search binding that gets created in the PageDef file of a view when a lis of value component gets added. The managed bean code below looks this search binding up to then add a view criteria that filters the query.

Note : There is no public API yet available for the FacesCtrlLOVBinding class, which is why I use the internal package class it in the example.

public void onPopupLaunch(LaunchPopupEvent launchPopupEvent) {
  BindingContext bctx = BindingContext.getCurrent();
  BindingContainer bindings = bctx.getCurrentBindingsEntry();
  FacesCtrlLOVBinding lov = 
       (FacesCtrlLOVBinding)bindings.get("DepartmentId");
  ViewCriteriaManager vcm = 
       lov.getListIterBinding().getViewObject().getViewCriteriaManager();          
  //make sure the view criteria is cleared
  vcm.removeViewCriteria(vcm.DFLT_VIEW_CRITERIA_NAME);
  //create a new view criteria
  ViewCriteria vc = 
         new ViewCriteria(lov.getListIterBinding().getViewObject());
  //use the default view criteria name
  //"__DefaultViewCriteria__"
  vc.setName(vcm.DFLT_VIEW_CRITERIA_NAME);
  //create a view criteria row for all queryable attributes
  ViewCriteriaRow vcr = new ViewCriteriaRow(vc);
  //for this sample I set the query filter to DepartmentId 60. 
  //You may determine it at runtime by reading it from a managed bean
  //or binding layer 
  vcr.setAttribute("DepartmentId", 60);
  //also note that the view criteria row consists of all attributes 
  //that belong to the LOV list view object, which means that you can
  //filter on multiple attributes
  vc.addRow(vcr);           
  lov.getListIterBinding().getViewObject().applyViewCriteria(vc);
} 

Note : Instead of using the vcm.DFLT_VIEW_CRITERIA_NAME name you can also define a custom name for the view criteria.

How-to dynamically filter model-driven LOV https://blogs.oracle.com/jdevotnharvest/entry/how_to_dynamically_filter_model