RE: Header and Detail

I follow your idea, but I think because I left out a few objects/methods in
my source, it may be confusing.

Let me explain what the two pieces of code do:
sendID =
FieldListFormatter.getField((Vector)icsmControlList.get(i),"SND_ID").data;

This retrieves the data contained in the SND_ID field of the current record.
It is then used to build an SQL statement for the detail record (another
object of type FieldTable).  If this were order header and detail, it would
be getting the invoice number used to select only detail records with a
particular invoice number.  That's all it does.  The parameters are a Table
Row, and the name of the field to retrieve the data for.  I know this could
be cleaned up.

FieldListFormatter.toXML((Vector) icsmControlList.get(i));

This converts a "row" of a table to XML.  the toXML method actually calls a
toXML method down the food chain until it gets to the "field" level.  
So, I say "convert a row to XML"
That process says "read through the row and convert each field into XML"
Which says "get the XML tag name, build the XML tag and stick the data
inbetween".

I know I'm not doing the toML methods, but I don't want critique on that.
For now using toXML, toHTML, etc. works fine.

Your examples confused me because they took two lines of code and mixed
their functions and parameters together.

Brad

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joe Pluta [mailto:joepluta@plutabrothers.com]
> Sent: Friday, March 16, 2001 10:01 AM
> To: JAVA400-L@midrange.com
> Subject: Re: Header and Detail
> 
> 
> Brad, you'te still coding procedurally.  You're writing Java 
> code that looks like RPG ILE code.  The examples below show 
> that you're treating FieldListFormatter like a service 
> program that accepts parameters and returns data.  You're 
> also leaving your instance variables public, which is usually 
> a bad idea.
> 
> You should be striving towards the following syntax:
> 
> iscmControlList.getRecord(i).getField("SND_ID").toML();
> -or-
> iscmControlList.getField(i, "SND_ID").toML();
> 
> The latter is an example of a convenience method.
> 
> Joe
> 
> ---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
> From: "Stone, Brad V (TC)" <bvstone@taylorcorp.com>
> Reply-To: JAVA400-L@midrange.com
> Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 09:05:02 -0600
> 
> FieldListFormatter.toXML((Vector) icsmControlList.get(i));
> FieldListFormatter.getField((Vector)icsmControlList.get(i),"SN
> D_ID").data;
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