Filtering data with D2W

Filtering data with D2W
Philippe Rabier - twitter.com/prabier
Sophiacom

Company
EOEntityA
EOEntityB
User
EOEntityC

• Use D2W
• Limit the visibility of the data
• Use conventions to name relationships (for example, any toOne
relationship to Company entity, is called company)
• Minimize the code
• Be magic!
The Requirements

First Solution
Working at the editingContext level

modified fetchspec
notification
ec factory
ec
company
objectsWithFetch
Specification()
creates
businessFP
fetchspec

How the qualiﬁer is modiﬁed?
public void alterFetchSpecification(final NSNotification aNotification)
{
EOEditingContext ec = (EOEditingContext) aNotification.object();
if (shouldAddRestrictionQualifier)
{
Company aCompany = (NOClient) ec.userInfoForKey(NBEditingContextFactory.COMPANY_KEY);
final EOFetchSpecification fs = (EOFetchSpecification) aNotification.userInfo().valueForKey(COEditingContext.FETCH_SPEC_KEY);
if (aCompany != null && fs != null)
{
EOEntity aEntity = EOUtilities.entityNamed(ec, fs.entityName());
EOQualifier fsQualifier = fs.qualifier();
if (fsQualifier != null)
{
NSSet<String> keys = fsQualifier.allQualifierKeys();
for (String aKey : keys)
{
if (aKey.contains("company"))
{
shouldAddRestrictionQualifier = false;
break;
}
}
}
if (shouldAddRestrictionQualifier)
{
EOQualifier aRestrictionQualifier = clientRestrictionQualifier(aEntity, aClient);
if (aRestrictionQualifier != null)
{
if (fsQualifier != null)
fsQualifier = new EOAndQualifier(new NSArray<EOQualifier>(new EOQualifier[] {fsQualifier, aRestrictionQualifier}));
else
fsQualifier = aRestrictionQualifier;
fs.setQualifier(fsQualifier);
}
}
}
}
}

public EOQualifier companyRestrictionQualifier(final EOEntity entity, final Company company)
{
EOQualifier aQualifier = null;
if (entity.name().equals(Company.Keys.ENTITY_NAME))
aQualifier = new EOKeyValueQualifier(Company.Keys.NAME, EOQualifier.QualifierOperatorEqual, company.name());
else if (entity.relationshipNamed("company") != null)
aQualifier = new EOKeyValueQualifier("company", EOQualifier.QualifierOperatorEqual, company);
else if (entity.relationshipNamed("entityB") != null)
aQualifier = new EOKeyValueQualifier("entityB.company", EOQualifier.QualifierOperatorEqual, client);
else if (entity.relationshipNamed("entityC") != null)
...;
if (log.isDebugEnabled())
log.debug("method: qualifier: " + aQualifier);
return aQualifier;
}

It works great
but there is a little problem
it’s too low level

An Example of Problem
public void validateForSave() throws ValidationException
{
super.validateForSave();
ERXEOControlUtilities.validateUniquenessOf(this, NOUser.Keys.LOGIN);
ERXEOControlUtilities.validateUniquenessOf(this, NOUser.Keys.EMAIL);
}
public void validateForSave() throws ValidationException
{
super.validateForSave();
editingContext().setUserInfoForKey(Boolean.FALSE, NBEditingContextFactory.NO_RESTRICTION_QUAL_KEY);
ERXEOControlUtilities.validateUniquenessOf(this, NOUser.Keys.LOGIN);
ERXEOControlUtilities.validateUniquenessOf(this, NOUser.Keys.EMAIL);
editingContext().setUserInfoForKey(Boolean.TRUE, NBEditingContextFactory.NO_RESTRICTION_QUAL_KEY);
}

• Displaying a list
• Using a query component
• Using ERD2WEditToManyRelationship component
• Using ERD2WEditToOneRelationship component
When should we ﬁlter?

• Modify the NavigationController object
• Change the data source
Displaying a list
public WOComponent listPageForEntityName(final String entityName)
{
ListPageInterface newListPageInterface = D2W.factory().listPageForEntityNamed(entityName, session());
EODatabaseDataSource dataSource = new EODatabaseDataSource(ERXEC.newEditingContext(), entityName);
EOEntity entity = ERXEOAccessUtilities.entityNamed(null, entityName);
EOQualifier auxQual = NBBusinessLogicPrincipal.getSharedInstance().clientRestrictionQualifier(entity,
((Session)session()).getCompany());
dataSource.setAuxiliaryQualifier(auxQual);
newListPageInterface.setDataSource(dataSource);
return (WOComponent) newListPageInterface;
}

• Use a query delegate
• Override the method queryDataSource(ERD2WQueryPage sender)
Using a query component
{
author = 100;
class = "com.webobjects.directtoweb.Rule";
lhs = {
class = "com.webobjects.eocontrol.EOKeyValueQualifier";
key = pageConfiguration;
selectorName = isEqualTo;
value = QueryMyEntity;
};
rhs = {
class = "er.directtoweb.ERDDelayedObjectCreationAssignment";
keyPath = queryDataSourceDelegate;
value = "ca.wowodc.very.util.pascal.delegate.SomeOneElse";
};
}

• Maybe subclass the 2 component is the best solution
• Use restrictingFetchSpeciﬁcation key. If all fetchspec have the
same name, it’s possible to build a generic rule.
• Need to be modiﬁed to add the possibility to set a binding to
the fetchspec
• Maybe a lot of pain to create many fetchspec in the EOModel
EditRelationship components

public Object restrictedChoiceList() {
String restrictedChoiceKey=(String)d2wContext().valueForKey("restrictedChoiceKey");
if( restrictedChoiceKey!=null && restrictedChoiceKey.length()>0 )
return valueForKeyPath(restrictedChoiceKey);
String fetchSpecName=(String)d2wContext().valueForKey("restrictingFetchSpecification");
if(fetchSpecName != null) {
EORelationship relationship = ERXUtilities.relationshipWithObjectAndKeyPath(object(),
(String)d2wContext().valueForKey("propertyKey"));
if(relationship != null)
return EOUtilities.objectsWithFetchSpecificationAndBindings(object().editingContext(),
relationship.destinationEntity().name(),fetchSpecName,null);
}
return null;
}

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