Setting DataSource POJO dataSourceField (SmartGWTPro2.2)

[mduduzik]

Simplistic Setup:

D1.ds.xml is a datasource for BO1 and D2.ds.xml is a datasource for BO2:-

class test.BO1
{
   long id;
   String name;
   BO2 item;
}

<DataSource ID="D1" serverType="generic">
  <fields>
    <field name="primaryKey" type="id" hidden="true" primaryKey="true" />
    <field name="item" type="D2" javaClass="test.BO2" displayField="name" editorType="select" optionDataSource="D2"/>
  </fields>
  <serverObject lookupStyle="new" className="test.server.BO1DMI" />
</DataSource>

and

class test.BO2
{
    long id;
    String name;
 }

<DataSource ID="D2" serverType="generic">
  <fields>
    <field name="primaryKey" type="id" hidden="true" primaryKey="true" />
    <field name="name" type="text"/>
  </fields>
  <serverObject lookupStyle="new" className="test.server.BO2DMI" />
</DataSource>

I would like to set up D1 so that BO2's can be selected from a dropdown.
The objective is to assign a BO2 to BO1.item by selecting it from a drop down. This doesn't seem to work. I thought perhaps there's a special way of using valueField to point to all of selected BO2 record instead of a field within it.

In other words, it there a way that SmartGWT can auto populate BO1.item with selected BO2 on the serverside automatically. If not, is there a better way.


Thanks.

[Isomorphic]

What you'll get submitted to the server is the ID - the other values from the object generally would not (and should not) be loaded. Your POJO could have a setter that takes the ID and populates a field of type object.

Automatically doing is a behavior we've considered adding before, so if this will come up a lot, consider sponsoring having the generic behavior added.