Virtual DAC sort - acumatica

I have a DAC that is defined only in a graph and is used to populate a grid. I pull data from several locations in 3 different loops and then yield the final data to the IEnumerable. Is there any way I can sort this DAC before the final yield? I was looking around at the pxcache methods but I could not find the right answer.

Sorting is applied after you yield the DAC records using the DataView OrderBy clause.
public PXSelectOrderBy<DAC, OrderBy<DAC.sortField>> MyDataView;
public virtual IEnumerable myDataView()
{
yield new DAC();
}
For filtered processing screens you can use PXFilteredProcessingOrderBy:
[PXFilterable]
public PXFilteredProcessingOrderBy<DAC, DACFilter, OrderBy<DAC.sortField>> MyDataView;
public virtual IEnumerable myDataView()
{
yield new DAC();
}

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Parse SubAccount to get individual segments

I would like to access the individual segments of a subaccount programmatically. Assuming I have a particular sub account set as ABC-123, I would like to be able to access ABC and 123 separately in code so that I can implement a particular business requirement.
I know that SubAccounts are saved in the Sub table as one string example ABC123. The sub account fields which link to this table would then link based on the ID (integer - PK of the Sub table). I can of course read from this table and then split accordingly (by taking the first 3 characters and the second 3 characters). However, I would like this to be dynamic so that the customization will work for different clients and clients may have different lengths for the segment. Therefore I cannot hard-code the value 3. I can make use of the SegmentValues table to retrieve the lengths of each Segment accordingly.
However, since Acumatica is already somehow carrying out this parsing (example in the UI), is there an API where Acumatica handles this logic and can provide the Sub-account as an array of strings. I tried to look into the SubAccountAttribute, PXDimensionSelectorAttribute, and SubAccountProvider but could not find anything which delivers this functionality.
Does Acumatica provide a way to split the sub-account into an array of strings or should I do this manually by identifying lengths from the Segment Values?
I believe some of the logic used to separate the segment are in the protected Definition class. The separated segments are in the Dimensions collections of the Definition class. You can access it in attributes that derive from PXDimensionAttribute class but since Definition class is protected you can't access it in a graph because PXGraph/PXGraphExtension don't derive from it.
Not much can be extracted from Dimension because most properties are protected:
You can roll your own by reading the segments of the segmented key:
Here is an example that write the segment values of the transactions subaccount in the trace for the Invoices and Memos screen:
using PX.Data;
using PX.Objects.AR;
using PX.Objects.CS;
using PX.Objects.GL;
namespace PX.Objects.SO
{
public class ARInvoiceEntry_Extension : PXGraphExtension<ARInvoiceEntry>
{
public void ARTran_RowSelected(PXCache cache, PXRowSelectedEventArgs e)
{
ARTran tran = e.Row as ARTran;
if (tran != null && tran.SubID.HasValue)
{
Sub sub = SubAccountAttribute.GetSubaccount(Base, tran.SubID.Value);
if (sub != null && sub.SubCD != null)
{
short segmentStartIndex = 0;
foreach (Segment segment in PXSelect<Segment,
Where<Segment.dimensionID, Equal<Required<Segment.dimensionID>>>,
OrderBy<Asc<Segment.segmentID>>>.Select(Base, "SUBACCOUNT"))
{
if (segment.SegmentID.HasValue && segment.Length.HasValue)
{
PXTrace.WriteInformation(string.Format("Segment {0}: {1}",
segment.SegmentID,
sub.SubCD.Substring(segmentStartIndex, segment.Length.Value)));
segmentStartIndex += segment.Length.Value;
}
}
}
}
}
}
}
Trace results:

Move records up/down in grid with "SortOrder" field and "Up"/"Down" buttons

Current customization project I'm working on has the requirement of displaying / editing a grid with a "Sort Order" for records. The "SortOrder" field is read only with up/down buttons to allow the user to re-order the items in the grid.
The "SortOrder" column in the DAC is a simple Int field.
The PXSelect statement for the grid is using a OrderBy>> to display the records.
The Grid in the ASPX is a defined with "SyncPosition= true"
I've added an Up/Down button that increments/decrements the "SortOrder" value for the current selected record.
The issue that I'm running into is that the first time "Up" or "Down" is clicked, the "SortOrder" field is updated however the rows do not move. Once I click Save to persist the update, the grid then refreshes with the right order.
I've looked through the the rest of the code but all other situations where this is used is for treeviews, not grids.
I've tried adding a View.RequestRefresh() at the end of my Action but this doesn't cause the reorder.
What would be the best way without a Persist after each move to get the Grid to update and reflect the current order from the cache values? As usual I'm assuming I'm overlooking something simple.
Any advice would be appreciated.
I had a look at the generic inquiry designer source code - it has an up/down button in the grid to reorder the fields. The views don't have an OrderBy clause:
public PXSelect<GIFilter, Where<GIFilter.designID, Equal<Current<GIDesign.designID>>>> Parameters;
OrderBy is not necessary because the LineNbr field is a key field - system automatically orders the records by the key fields.
public abstract class lineNbr : IBqlField { }
[PXDBInt(IsKey = true)]
[PXDefault]
[PXLineNbr(typeof(GIDesign))]
[PXParent(typeof(Select<GIDesign,
Where<GIDesign.designID, Equal<Current<GIFilter.designID>>>>))]
public virtual int? LineNbr { get; set; }
The code for the button looks like this:
[PXButton(ImageKey = Sprite.Main.ArrowUp, Tooltip = ActionsMessages.ttipRowUp)]
[PXUIField(DisplayName = ActionsMessages.RowUp, MapEnableRights = PXCacheRights.Update)]
protected void moveUpFilter()
{
if (this.Parameters.Current == null)
return;
GIFilter prev = PXSelect<GIFilter, Where<GIFilter.designID, Equal<Current<GIDesign.designID>>, And<GIFilter.lineNbr, Less<Current<GIFilter.lineNbr>>>>, OrderBy<Desc<GIFilter.lineNbr>>>.Select(this);
if (prev != null)
this.SwapItems(this.Parameters.Cache, prev, this.Parameters.Current);
}
[PXButton(ImageKey = Sprite.Main.ArrowDown, Tooltip = ActionsMessages.ttipRowDown)]
[PXUIField(DisplayName = ActionsMessages.RowDown, MapEnableRights = PXCacheRights.Update)]
protected void moveDownFilter()
{
if (this.Parameters.Current == null)
return;
GIFilter next = PXSelect<GIFilter, Where<GIFilter.designID, Equal<Current<GIDesign.designID>>, And<GIFilter.lineNbr, Greater<Current<GIFilter.lineNbr>>>>, OrderBy<Asc<GIFilter.lineNbr>>>.Select(this);
if (next != null)
this.SwapItems(this.Parameters.Cache, next, this.Parameters.Current);
}
The SwapItems function is shared between all the move up / move down actions:
private void SwapItems(PXCache cache, object first, object second)
{
object temp = cache.CreateCopy(first);
foreach (Type field in cache.BqlFields)
if (!cache.BqlKeys.Contains(field))
cache.SetValue(first, field.Name, cache.GetValue(second, field.Name));
foreach (Type field in cache.BqlFields)
if (!cache.BqlKeys.Contains(field))
cache.SetValue(second, field.Name, cache.GetValue(temp, field.Name));
cache.Update(first);
cache.Update(second);
}
Finally, there's a bit of JavaScript code in the ASPX code - it may or may not be what you're missing to get the feature to work correctly; i'm not exactly sure what it's doing but would encourage you to open SM208000.aspx in an editor and look for commandResult. Also check out the CallbackCommands that are defined on the grids which support up/down - it may have something to do with it.

Hazelcast - query collections of Map values

Assume I have the following as the value in an IMap:
public class Employee{
public int empId;
public List<String> categories;
public List<String> getCategories(){
return this.categories;
}
}
I would like to find all employees that belong to category "Sales". Also, I would like to create an index on getCategories() so that the query returns fast. There seems to be no Predicate available to do this. How do I go about achieving this? It seems like I will have to write a Predicate to do this. Is there example code I can look at that would show me how to build a predicate that uses an index ?
The only way I currently see this happening is to denormalize the data model and use something like a IMap and the following as value:
class EmployeeCategory{int employeeId, String category}
And put an index on category.
It is somewhere on the backlog to provide more advances indices that should be able to do this out of the box.
I tried by iterating the List to a separate Imap and then querying it in the client.
IMap<String,ArrayList< categories >> cache=hazelcastInstance.getMap("cache");
IMap<String, categories> cachemodified = hazelcastInstance.getMap("cachemodified") ;
int[] idx = { 0 };
xref.get("urkey").forEach(cachefelement ->{
cachemodified.put(String.valueOf(idx[0]++),cachefelement);
});
Predicate p = Predicates.equal("categoryId", "SearchValue");
Collection<categories> result = cachemodified.values(p);

Ways to return a list of tuple rows through JPA while using PrimeFaces LazyDataModel<T>

There may be situations where we need to return a list of tuple rows from the associated data model i.e not a fully qualified entity but a part of it, specifically a list of selected columns from the associated data-source (may be a database).
I know of some of ways to return a list of tuple rows from the database using JPA like the following
There is no need to look closely into the code from the JPA criteria API, if you were to dislike criteria queries. The question is not directly related to JPA criteria. I prefer JPA criteria to JPQL for no precise reason - just because I like criteria queries very much.
Using a list of object arrays - List<Object[]> :
public List<Object[]> object(int first, int pageSize) {
CriteriaBuilder criteriaBuilder=entityManager.getCriteriaBuilder();
CriteriaQuery<Object[]>criteriaQuery=criteriaBuilder.createQuery(Object[].class);
Root<Product> root = criteriaQuery.from(entityManager.getMetamodel().entity(Product.class));
List<Selection<?>>selections=new ArrayList<Selection<?>>();
selections.add(root.get(Product_.prodId));
selections.add(root.get(Product_.prodName));
selections.add(root.get(Product_.prodCode));
selections.add(root.get(Product_.prodDesc));
selections.add(root.get(Product_.marketPrice));
selections.add(root.get(Product_.salePrice));
criteriaQuery.select(criteriaBuilder.array(selections.toArray(new Selection[0])));
//Or criteriaQuery.multiselect(selections.toArray(new Selection[0]));
return entityManager.createQuery(criteriaQuery).setFirstResult(first).setMaxResults(pageSize).getResultList();
}
Using a list of tuples - List<Tuple> :
public List<Tuple> tuple(int first, int pageSize) {
CriteriaBuilder criteriaBuilder=entityManager.getCriteriaBuilder();
CriteriaQuery<Tuple>criteriaQuery=criteriaBuilder.createTupleQuery();
Root<Product> root = criteriaQuery.from(entityManager.getMetamodel().entity(Product.class));
List<Selection<?>>selections=new ArrayList<Selection<?>>();
selections.add(root.get(Product_.prodId));
selections.add(root.get(Product_.prodName));
selections.add(root.get(Product_.prodCode));
selections.add(root.get(Product_.prodDesc));
selections.add(root.get(Product_.marketPrice));
selections.add(root.get(Product_.salePrice));
criteriaQuery.select(criteriaBuilder.tuple(selections.toArray(new Selection[0])));
//Or criteriaQuery.multiselect(selections.toArray(new Selection[0]));
return entityManager.createQuery(criteriaQuery).setFirstResult(first).setMaxResults(pageSize).getResultList();
}
Using a list of rows mapped a class of objects - List<MappedClass> :
public List<ProductUtils> constructor(int first, int pageSize) {
CriteriaBuilder criteriaBuilder=entityManager.getCriteriaBuilder();
CriteriaQuery<ProductUtils>criteriaQuery=criteriaBuilder.createQuery(ProductUtils.class);
Root<Product> root = criteriaQuery.from(entityManager.getMetamodel().entity(Product.class));
List<Selection<?>>selections=new ArrayList<Selection<?>>();
selections.add(root.get(Product_.prodId));
selections.add(root.get(Product_.prodName));
selections.add(root.get(Product_.prodCode));
selections.add(root.get(Product_.prodDesc));
selections.add(root.get(Product_.marketPrice));
selections.add(root.get(Product_.salePrice));
criteriaQuery.select(criteriaBuilder.construct(ProductUtils.class, selections.toArray(new Selection[0])));
//Or criteriaQuery.multiselect(selections.toArray(new Selection[0]));
return entityManager.createQuery(criteriaQuery).setFirstResult(first).setMaxResults(pageSize).getResultList();
}
Again the same thing can be rewritten using JPQL.
The first two of them are ugly and require accessing properties using indices in EL on XHTML pages. Maintaining them is difficult, if the order in which the fields appear is changed at a later time (of course, aliases can be used with Tuple). Also, use of Tuple is always avoidable, since it requires an additional dependency in JSF from the javax.persistence package increasing coupling between modules.
Using a constructor query to map the result list to a class may suffice. It can be used along with PrimeFaces LazyDataModel as follows.
#Named
#ViewScoped
public class TestManagedBean extends LazyDataModel<ProductUtils> implements Serializable {
#Inject
private Service service;
private static final long serialVersionUID=1L;
public TestManagedBean() {}
#Override
public List<ProductUtils> load(int first, int pageSize, List<SortMeta> multiSortMeta, Map<String, Object> filters) {
// Put some logic here like setting total rows for LazyDataModel - setRowCount(10)
return service.constructor(first, pageSize); //Use filters and sort meta whenever necessary.
}
}
But this is also too unmaintainable, if I need to access more or less fields from the database at some later time at a different place that requires creating a new class or adding a new constructor (constructor overloading in the existing class) to the existing class which in turn requires to check carefully the actual and formal parameters of the constructor method to see, if they match in number, order and type precisely that often makes me blind.
I hope, there should be some better ways that allow us to tackle such situations in a precise way.
Parameterized constructor(s) in the existing entity classes, if used instead (without creating a new class like ProductUtils, in this case) may cause problems while implementing web services (JAX-WS) in the application (if needed). Therefore, I never tend to use parameterized constructors of entity classes anywhere.

Can Automapper map from a Dictionary of properties to a flat destination?

Source contains a property bag in a Dictionary. Can Automapper map the entries in the Dictionary to individual properties of the Destination based upon matching the dictionary keys with the names of the properties on the destination type?
Example:
public class Destination
{
public int ProdNumber;
public string Title;
}
public class Source
{
public Dictionary<string, object> values = new Dictionary<string, object>();
}
where the values Dictionary will have two entries, one with a key of "ProdNumber" and one with a key value of "Title". There will likely be entries in the dictionary that have keys that don't match any property in the Destination and they should be ignored. There will be multiple properties of each primitive data type (int, string, etc) - so I presume I can't use a simple set of TypeConverters.
Any suggestions?
Thanks,
Chris
Unfortunately it is not possible at the moment, but it is planned for the next version. Read this thread as it discusses the plans and a work around.

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