Using Drag-Drop functionality in af:treeTable to move data between nodes -Oracle ADF

This is a very common question and development requirement - How to drag drop records inside treeTable to perform some kind of operation ?
This post is an answer,here i am using Departments and Employees table of HR Schema to create treeTable and Jdeveloper 12.1.3

First Step-
Create business components using Departments and Employees table of HR Schema and create association and viewLink using DepartmentId (here Departments is parent and Employee is child viewObject)

now drop Departments viewObject as treeTable on page from data-control
see- Tree Table Component in Oracle ADF(Hierarchical Representation)  (How to create treeTable in ADF)

So after creating simple treeTable, added  two columns other than nodeStamp to show DepartmentName and EmployeeName in a better way
see-Tree Table Component with declarative presentation in ADF

Finally it looks like this-

Now my requirement is - when drag an Employee to any Department node it should become child of that Department ,means attach Employee to Departments using drag-drop

So to drag Employee Name filed i added af:attributeDragSource under this field and to get corresponding EmployeeId added an af:clientAttribute component

This clientAttribute stores value of EmployeeId for each node and dragSource refers clientAttribute to identify node value
Now to handle dropEvent on DepatmentName node , dropped an af:dropTarget under this field and created a dropListener in managed bean that will handle desired operation on dropEvent

See complete af:treeTable xml source-

<af:treeTable value="#{bindings.Departments1.treeModel}" var="node"
                  selectionListener="#{bindings.Departments1.treeModel.makeCurrent}" rowSelection="single" id="tt1"
                  binding="#{pageFlowScope.DragDropBean.treeTabBind}">
      <f:facet name="nodeStamp">
        <af:column id="c1" width="10">
          <af:outputText value="#{node}" id="ot1"/>
        </af:column>
      </f:facet>
      <f:facet name="pathStamp">
        <af:outputText value="#{node}" id="ot2"/>
      </f:facet>
      <af:column id="c2" width="150">
        <af:outputText value="#{node.DepartmentName}" id="ot3"
                       inlineStyle="font-weight:bold;color:red;font-size:small;">
          <af:dropTarget dropListener="#{pageFlowScope.DragDropBean.treeDropListener}">
            <af:dataFlavor flavorClass="java.lang.Object"/>
          </af:dropTarget>
        </af:outputText>
      </af:column>
      <af:column id="c3">
        <af:outputText value="#{node.FirstName}" id="ot4" inlineStyle="font-weight:bold;color:darkgreen;">
          <af:clientAttribute name="DragEmployeeId" value="#{node.EmployeeId}"/>
          <af:attributeDragSource attribute="DragEmployeeId"/>
        </af:outputText>
      </af:column>
    </af:treeTable>

Now see the code of drop listener written in managed bean that gets EmployeeId value from dropEvent and DepartmentId from expression and calls a business logic to move employee under that Deaprtment

DropListener in ManagedBean to handle dropEvent-

    /**Method to move Employee Under Department
     * @param dropEvent
     * @return
     */
    public DnDAction treeDropListener(DropEvent dropEvent) {

        Object empId = null;
        Integer dropVal = null;
        //Get Value from dragSource (EmployeeId of dragged node)
        DataFlavor<Object> df = DataFlavor.getDataFlavor(Object.class);
        empId = dropEvent.getTransferable().getData(df);
        if (empId != null) {
            System.out.println("Dropped value is -" + empId);
            try {
                dropVal = new Number(empId).intValue();
            } catch (SQLException e) {
            }
            //Get DepartmentId where Employee is dropped (resolve Expression langusge)
            Object droppedUnderDept = resolvElDC("#{node.DepartmentId}");
            System.out.println("Dropped under-" + droppedUnderDept);
            //Method Call to mode Employee under Department
            OperationBinding ob = executeOperation("moveEmployeeToDepartment");
            ob.getParamsMap().put("deptId", Integer.parseInt(droppedUnderDept.toString()));
            ob.getParamsMap().put("empId", dropVal);
            ob.execute();
        }
        /*Method to expand treeTable to show all nodes
         * see-http://www.awasthiashish.com/2013/10/expand-and-collapse-aftreetable.html
         * */
        expandTreeTable();
        //Refreshing treeTable after all operation, here treeTabBind is component binding of treeTable
        AdfFacesContext.getCurrentInstance().addPartialTarget(treeTabBind);
        return DnDAction.NONE;

    }

Helper methods to get BindingContainer and resolve expression-

    /*****Generic Method to call operation binding**/
    public BindingContainer getBindingsCont() {
        return BindingContext.getCurrent().getCurrentBindingsEntry();
    }

    /**
     * Generic Method to execute operation Binding
     * */
    public OperationBinding executeOperation(String operation) {
        OperationBinding createParam = getBindingsCont().getOperationBinding(operation);
        return createParam;

    }

    /**Method to resolve Expression
     * @param data
     * @return
     */
    public Object resolvElDC(String data) {
        FacesContext fc = FacesContext.getCurrentInstance();
        Application app = fc.getApplication();
        ExpressionFactory elFactory = app.getExpressionFactory();
        ELContext elContext = fc.getELContext();
        ValueExpression valueExp = elFactory.createValueExpression(elContext, data, Object.class);
        return valueExp.getValue(elContext);
    }

Now run your application and check -
Dragged Prabhakar from Purchase Department and dropped it on Finance-

 Result-

Thanks, Happy learning :)
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Conditional Execution of Model (EO) level Validation- Oracle ADF

You all know about ADF model level validation , we can apply variety of validation on model (Entity Object), as for length, compare, key, regular expression, script and unique key etc.

I am not going to describe whole process for model layer validation, for detailed tutorial on EO level validation see -Dynamic (parameterize) model level validation using message token
Now see how we can execute these validation conditionally -

• When we apply unique key validation on Entity Object- this window appears-

• Now go to Validation Execution and write your condition in given box for that you want to execute validation

• Now go to Failure Handling tab and write your failure handling message, and you are done





• Now run your application and see how validation executes for your condition
• this functionality is really helpful and sometimes avoids writing lot of managed bean code