Passing Criteria in RPC-DMI call

[wwarriner]

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I would like to pass a client side AdvancedCriteria via RPC-DMI to a server side method.

Isomorphic documentation at http://www.smartclient.com/smartgwtee/javadoc/com/smartgwt/client/docs/DmiOverview.html has an example of passing arguments using RPC DMI. That's exactly what I need but require an argument of AdvancedCriteria type be added to the method signature.

Can you tell me how to go about this ? I cant figure out how to handle the serialization/deserialization/conversion from client side to server side representation of the AdvancedCriteria argument ?

Thanks

[wwarriner]

Passing Criteria in RPC-DMI call

While I have only done limited testing it looks like the way to pass a advanced criteria as a RPC DMI argument is to pass the criteria as a map (obtained from the AdvancedCriteria getValues() method )

On the server side the map argument can be converted to a server side AdvancedCriteria by calling AdvancedCriteria.fromCollections( <server method formal arg>)

The JS to Java DMI type conversions are documented in the RPCRequest API doc

It very simple but I pretty much had to read through the various APIs to figure this out.

------ Client Side DMI call
AdvancedCriteria ac  = ...

DMI.call(appID,className,methodName,callback,
             new Object[] { ac.getValues() }

---- Server Side method

public List<LinkedMap> someMethod(Map criteriaMap) {

AdvancedCriteria criteria = AdvancdeCriteria.fromCollections(criteriaMap)

Thanks again to isomorphic for the help