wow... confirmed... very cool.

Thanks!
James


On Dec 8, 2011, at 4:30 PM, Ramsey Gurley wrote:

> 
> On Dec 8, 2011, at 2:36 PM, James Cicenia wrote:
> 
>> 
>> However, the one snag is that I can't have phantom non eo keys. 
> 
> Oh, but you can :-)
> 
> http://developer.apple.com/legacy/mac/library/documentation/InternetWeb/Reference/WO542Reference/com/webobjects/foundation/NSKeyValueCoding.ErrorHandling.html
> 
> Specifically when valueForKey or takeValueForKey are called, 
> handleQueryForUnboundKey and handleTakeValueForUnboundKey (respectively) are 
> called on the EO if the key doesn't exist.  The default behavior is to just 
> throw an UnknownKeyException, but you can override those methods and handle a 
> key yourself.  When you do, it is as if the EO really had that key.
> 
> Ramsey
> 
> 
>> 
>> So I created some attributes in the EO.... rptCol01 ... rptColXX
>> 
>> And then map those properties to a customComponent.
>> 
>> Seems to be working as clean as I could design it.
>> 
>> James
>> 
>> 
>> On Dec 8, 2011, at 12:23 PM, David Holt wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> On 2011-12-08, at 9:17 AM, James Cicenia wrote:
>>> 
>>>> That all makes sense now and works perfectly. This conversion might go 
>>>> better than I originally planned.
>>>> 
>>>> Thank you very much.
>>>> James
>>>> 
>>>> ps: now I can make a nice generalized custom reporting engine!
>>> 
>>> It would be nice if you had time to share how you went about it. It sounds 
>>> good!
>>> 
>>> David
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On Dec 8, 2011, at 10:25 AM, Ramsey Gurley wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Instead of using rules
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> (entity.name = 'PortfolioProject' and propertyKey = 'primaryGroup')  
>>>>> componentName = "D2WCustomComponent"
>>>>> 
>>>>> (entity.name = 'PortfolioProject' and propertyKey = 'primaryGroup')  
>>>>> customComponentName = "D2WPrimaryAlignmentMetricByKey"
>>>>> 
>>>>> use
>>>>> 
>>>>> (entity.name = 'PortfolioProject' and propertyKey = 'primaryGroup')  
>>>>> componentName = "D2WPrimaryAlignmentMetricByKey"
>>>>> 
>>>>> Since you are extending ERDCustomComponent, you shouldn't need the 
>>>>> wrapper.  Then you can just call valueForBinding to get whatever you need 
>>>>> from the d2wContext.
>>>>> 
>>>>>     public String value(){
>>>>>           return 
>>>>> ((PortfolioProject)object).metricListValueByMetric(valueForBinding("lookupString"));
>>>>>     }
>>>>> 
>>>>> Ramsey
>>>>> 
>>>>> On Dec 8, 2011, at 6:19 AM, James Cicenia wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> OK -
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I spent a lot of hours last night converting a test version of this 
>>>>>> application to extend ERXApplication.... etc. I would be doing it the 
>>>>>> first of the year anyway.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Now I have a little D2W rendering component. I want the rule to change 
>>>>>> an attribute of it. But I can't seem to make it happen.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> here is my simple component:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> public class D2WPrimaryAlignmentMetricByKey extends ERDCustomComponent {
>>>>>>  public EOEnterpriseObject object;
>>>>>>  public String key;
>>>>>>  public String lookupString;
>>>>>>  
>>>>>>     public D2WPrimaryAlignmentMetricByKey(WOContext context) {
>>>>>>         super(context);
>>>>>>     }
>>>>>>     
>>>>>>     
>>>>>>     public String value(){
>>>>>>          return 
>>>>>> ((PortfolioProject)object).metricListValueByMetric(lookupString);
>>>>>>     }
>>>>>> }
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> What can I do to get lookupString to be supplied by a rule??
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Here is my rule:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> (entity.name = 'PortfolioProject' and propertyKey = 'primaryGroup') ==> 
>>>>>> lookupString com.webobjects.directtoweb.Assignment "Primary Group"
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> lookupString is always null when I run my report and debug my component.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> What am I missing.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> James Cicenia 
>>>>>> cell: 773.398.4649
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
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