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Note the searchBinding managed property; this property “injects” the ADF Model
action binding that is used to call the advancedSearch() method on
JhsApplicationModuleImpl (see below).
Both the Quick Search Go button and the Advanced Search Find button call a method on
the search bean:
Internally, the quickSearch() and advancedSearch() methods delegate the actual work
to methods createArgumentListForAdvancedSearch() and
executeAdvancedSearchBinding().
7.2.6.2. Search Support in ADF BC Application Module
JHeadstart Runtime provides an extension for your Application Module that includes
advanced search support (which is used for both the Advanced Search and the Quick
Search functionality of JHeadstart). The JhsApplicationModule interface and the
JhsApplicationModuleImpl class contain the method advancedSearch() that takes an
array of JHeadstart QueryCondition objects and translates them to an additional where
clause on the relevant View Object.
This method is exported in the client interface of the Application Module, which makes it
available as a data control operation. For such an operation an action binding can then be
created in the page definition of the page (which is of course what the JHeadstart
Application Generator does when a Search Region is generated).
The QueryCondition object stores information about that part of the search that applies
to a single view attribute:
• attribute to search on
• operator to use
• search value
• format
• wildcard usage
• case (in)sensitivity
The QueryCondition also translates the query operator names used in the pages by
appropriate SQL operators and wildcard usage. For example, query operator
"startsWith" results in the operator "like" and wildcard usage "suffix".
The advancedSearch() method uses this information to construct ADF BC
ViewCriteria objects, applies them to the View Object, and then executes the (modified)
query of the View Object.
Reference: See the Javadoc or source of the advancedSearch() method of
JhsApplicationModule and JhsApplicationModuleImpl, and the Javadoc of
the QueryModel class.
JHeadstart Developer’s Guide Generating Query Behaviors 7 - 13