Category: Java

Did you read my blogs about cool type ahead features? really cool type-ahead and making type-ahead easy as pie.

Here’s the sequel on how to make the “custom” type-ahead also look really nice.

Java code to create custom type-ahead:

StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer(“”);
StringBuffer sbNames = new StringBuffer(“”);
Session session = (Session)DominoUtils.getCurrentSession();
Database db = (Database) DominoUtils.getCurrentDatabase();
View view = db.getView(“lupCountriesByUNID”);

// apply the search, this can be anything, looking up by key and NOT forcing a match
// or an FT search, we use for different amount of characters different fields to search in
// 2 characters = ISO language code, 3 characters = ISO currency code etc.
view.FTSearch(“*” + searchValue + “*”, 0);

Document doc = view.getFirstDocument();
sb.append(“<UL>”);
boolean found = false;
while(null != doc ){
found = true;
sb.append(“<LI><TABLE class=”receivingCountry“><TR class=”level” + doc.getItemValueString(“Level”) + “”>”);
sb.append(“<TD class=”recCountryLevel“><span class=”informal”>Level: ” + doc.getItemValueString(“Level”) + “</span></TD>” );
sb.append(“<TD class=”recCountryName“>” + doc.getItemValueString(“R_CountryName”)+ “</TD>”);
sb.append(“<TD class=”recCountryDesc“><span class=”informal”>” + doc.getItemValueString(“R_CountryDesc”)+ “</span></TD>”); 
sb.append(“</TR></TABLE></LI>”);

doc = view.getNextDocument(doc);
}

if( !found){
sb.append(“<LI><span class=”informal”>no result</span></LI>” );
}
sb.append(“</UL>”);
return sb.toString();

CSS applied:

.receivingCountry{
table-layout: fixed; /* in my case important to make the sugguestions fit */
width: 380px; /* in my case important to make the sugguestions fit */
border-collapse: collapse; /* needed to make the space go away */
border: 1px solid #DDDDDD;
padding: 0;
margin: 0;
white-space: normal; /* in my case very important to make the table cells wrap */
}

.tundra .dijitMenuItem {
border: 0;
margin: 0;
padding: 0; /* needed to get rid of the space between items */
background-color: transparent; /* needed to get rid of the gray oneUITheme background */
}

.level1 {
background-color: #FFCC66;
}
.level2 {
background-color: #66CCFF;
}

.recCountryName{
vertical-align: top;
width: 200px;
}

.recCountryLevel{
vertical-align: top;
width: 80px;
}

.recCountryDesc{
vertical-align: top;
width: 200px;
}

Result:

just wanted to reiterate again to those developing in Java for xPages how easy it is to debug ALL Java code run in an xPage (yes, ALL, even the Java code which “creates” the xPage and all it’s controls!)
click here to read my earlier article

so you read my article about how easy it is to debug xPages and now get stuck in the debug perspective all the time but you would like to checkout your code etc?

simple: use <ctrl><F8> to switch perspectives.

If you open first all those perspectives you don’t need and close them via WindowClose Perspective then it’s a simple matter of <ctrl><F8> to switch between Debug and xPages perspective

ah.. as a side note:

did you know that you can actually “debug” the building of the xPage component tree itself?
Open the Package Explorer view and inside your LN application open the Localxsp folder. There you will find the Java classes which have been created out of the XML in the xPages designer!

You can then set a breakpoint in the Java class for your xPage here:

    protected AbstractCompiledPage createPage(int pageIndex) {
        return new nameOfYourXPage();
    }