Yes, it seems like a bug. A JIRA ticket can be logged for it. -- Thanks & Regards, Mridul Pathak Senior Manager HotWax Systems http://www.hotwaxsystems.com
> On Jun 18, 2016, at 5:49 PM, Pritam Kute <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Hello Devs, > > Any thoughts on this? Should I log JIRA issue for the same?? > > Thanks & Regards, > -- > *Pritam Kute* > *HotWax Systems* | www.hotwaxsystems.com > > On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 2:26 PM, Pritam Kute <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Hello OFBiz Developers, >> >> While working on the issue OFBIZ-7252 >> <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-7252>, I found one problem >> in Form Widgets. When we use <alt-target> attribute in child form, the >> system should consider overridden <alt-target> in child form. This is >> default expected behaviour. But in this case, it is always considering the >> <alt-target> of the parent form. >> >> For example: >> >> *<form name="ParentForm" .....>* >> * <alt-target use-when="xyz != abc" target="executeParentTarget"/> * >> * ........* >> *</form>* >> >> *<form name="ChildForm" extends="ParentForm" extend-resource="........>* >> * <alt-target use-when="xyz != abc" target="executeChildTarget"/> * >> * ........* >> *</form>* >> >> In above example, expectation is 'executeChildTarget' target should get >> executed but actually 'executeParentTarget' is getting executed. >> >> When we looked into framework level code of Form Widgets, we got the >> following code snippets: >> >> *ModelForm.java* (Line: 380-388) >> >> *ArrayList<AltTarget> altTargets = new ArrayList<AltTarget>();* >> *if (parentModel != null) {* >> * altTargets.addAll(parentModel.altTargets);* >> *}* >> *for (Element altTargetElement : UtilXml.childElementList(formElement, >> "alt-target")) {* >> * altTargets.add(new AltTarget(altTargetElement));* >> *}* >> *altTargets.trimToSize();* >> *this.altTargets = Collections.unmodifiableList(altTargets);* >> >> Here we can see that all alt-targets present in parent form are added to >> the list first and then all alt-targets present in child form are added. >> >> This causes a problem as method getTarget() of ModelForm.java (Line: >> 1352-1384) returns the first element in the list as alt-target. >> >> Is this is intentionally done or we are missing something? >> >> Thanks & Regards, >> -- >> *Pritam Kute* >> *HotWax Systems* | www.hotwaxsystems.com >>
