Event
An event argument that starts with $ or { is live UI5 expression syntax and gets resolved on the client - check_arg_literal sends it as the text it is.
Z2UI5_CL_SMP_APP_506
Learn
Event
UI5 1.71
The facts
- Repository
- abap2UI5/samples
- Class
Z2UI5_CL_SMP_APP_506- Source file
z2ui5_cl_smp_app_506.clas.abap↗- Category
- Event
- Learning path
- Talk to the user
- Minimum UI5
- 1.71 — the floor abap2UI5 holds its samples to
- In the playground
- runs in the browser, with no system and nothing installed
Keywords: event, argument, literal, quoted, expression, evaluated, check_arg_literal, t_arg, data, binding, syntax, dollar, brace
Controls it builds
- sap.m.Button
- sap.m.Input
- sap.m.Label
- sap.m.MessageStrip
- sap.m.Page
- sap.m.Shell
- sap.m.Text
- sap.ui.core.mvc.View
- sap.ui.layout.form.SimpleForm
Read out of the builder chain by the abap2UI5 linter, not from the category this sample is filed under — which is what makes “which samples build one of these” a question the catalogue can answer at all.
Libraries
Run it here
The sample running, in this page — the app on its own, with no editor over it.
Switch to Playground with this code
Nothing is installed and nothing is sent anywhere: the ABAP is compiled to JavaScript in this browser and runs against abap2UI5 itself.
The ABAP
z2ui5_cl_smp_app_506.clas.abap — 154 lines
Click a number to link to a line — shift-click for a range.
Read it on GitHub ↗
" @keywords event argument literal quoted expression evaluated check_arg_literal t_arg data binding syntax dollar brace
" @summary An event argument that starts with $ or { is live UI5 expression syntax and gets resolved on the client - check_arg_literal sends it as the text it is.
"! Every argument of an _event( ) wire is written into the view. One that
"! starts with `$` or `{` is written RAW, as live UI5 expression syntax -
"! that is how `${$source>/KEY}` reaches the handler as the row's value
"! instead of as those thirteen characters.
"!
"! Data can start with those characters too: text a user typed, a key from
"! a foreign system. Written raw it is RESOLVED, and what arrives is the
"! result - the bound price instead of the text `${/PRICE}`. s_ctrl-
"! check_arg_literal quotes every argument of that wire as a string, so the
"! wire gives up expressions and carries data. Two buttons over the same
"! argument show both readings side by side.
CLASS z2ui5_cl_smp_app_506 DEFINITION PUBLIC.
PUBLIC SECTION.
INTERFACES z2ui5_if_app.
DATA price TYPE string.
DATA argument TYPE string.
DATA raw_arg TYPE string.
DATA lit_arg TYPE string.
PROTECTED SECTION.
DATA client TYPE REF TO z2ui5_if_client.
METHODS on_event.
METHODS view_display.
PRIVATE SECTION.
ENDCLASS.
CLASS z2ui5_cl_smp_app_506 IMPLEMENTATION.
METHOD z2ui5_if_app~main.
me->client = client.
IF client->check_on_init( ).
price = `1299.00`.
" the argument both wires start with: the client-side spelling of the
" bound price, composed from the bind so the path is a registered one
argument = |$\{{ client->_bind( val = price path = abap_true ) }\}|.
raw_arg = `-`.
lit_arg = `-`.
view_display( ).
ELSEIF client->check_on_navigated( ).
view_display( ).
ELSEIF client->check_on_event( ).
on_event( ).
ENDIF.
ENDMETHOD.
METHOD on_event.
CASE client->get_event( ).
WHEN `RAW`.
" what the client resolved: `${/PRICE}` names the bound price, so
" its value arrives, not the text
raw_arg = client->get_event_arg( ).
WHEN `LITERAL`.
" the same argument, quoted by check_arg_literal: the text arrives
lit_arg = client->get_event_arg( ).
WHEN `REBUILD`.
" the argument is written into the view at render time, so a new
" text needs a new view - the two wires below carry it from then on
raw_arg = `-`.
lit_arg = `-`.
view_display( ).
ENDCASE.
ENDMETHOD.
METHOD view_display.
DATA(view) = z2ui5_cl_ui5_view_builder=>factory(
)->ele( n = `View` ns = `mvc`
)->a( n = `displayBlock` v = `true`
)->a( n = `height` v = `100%`
)->a( n = `xmlns` v = `sap.m`
)->a( n = `xmlns:mvc` v = `sap.ui.core.mvc`
)->a( n = `xmlns:form` v = `sap.ui.layout.form` ).
DATA(page) = view->ele( `Shell`
)->ele( `Page`
)->a( n = `title` v = `abap2UI5 - Event - Literal Arguments (check_arg_literal)`
)->a( n = `showNavButton` b = client->check_app_prev_stack( )
)->a( n = `navButtonPress` v = client->_event_nav_app_leave( ) ).
page->tag( `MessageStrip`
)->a( n = `text` t = `Both buttons send the same argument. Written raw, the $-expression is resolved and ` &&
`the bound price arrives; with s_ctrl-check_arg_literal the wire quotes it and the text ` &&
`arrives. Type any other text - $event, {= 1 + 1 } - press Rebuild, and the literal ` &&
`wire still delivers it unchanged.`
)->a( n = `type` v = `Information`
)->a( n = `showIcon` b = abap_true
)->a( n = `class` v = `sapUiSmallMargin` ).
DATA(form) = page->ele( n = `SimpleForm` ns = `form`
)->a( n = `title` v = `One argument, two wires`
)->a( n = `editable` b = abap_true
)->ele( n = `content` ns = `form` ).
form->tag( `Label`
)->a( n = `text` v = `The bound price the raw argument resolves to` ).
form->tag( `Input`
)->a( n = `value` v = client->_bind( price ) ).
form->tag( `Label`
)->a( n = `text` v = `The argument both buttons carry` ).
form->tag( `Input`
)->a( n = `value` v = client->_bind( argument ) ).
form->tag( `Button`
)->a( n = `text` v = `Rebuild the view with this argument`
)->a( n = `press` v = client->_event( `REBUILD` ) ).
" the raw wire is kept on the binding shape the sample starts with: any
" other text typed above is only sent through the literal wire, because
" an argument that is not valid expression syntax would break the view
DATA(raw_expr) = |$\{{ client->_bind( val = price path = abap_true ) }\}|.
form->tag( `Label`
)->a( n = `text` v = `Raw - resolved on the client` ).
form->tag( `Button`
)->a( n = `text` t = |Send { raw_expr } raw|
)->a( n = `press` v = client->_event( val = `RAW`
arg = raw_expr ) ).
form->tag( `Text`
)->a( n = `text` v = client->_bind( raw_arg ) ).
form->tag( `Label`
)->a( n = `text` v = `Literal - quoted by check_arg_literal` ).
form->tag( `Button`
)->a( n = `text` t = |Send { argument } as a literal|
)->a( n = `type` v = `Emphasized`
)->a( n = `press` v = client->_event( val = `LITERAL`
arg = argument
s_ctrl = VALUE #( check_arg_literal = abap_true ) ) ).
form->tag( `Text`
)->a( n = `text` v = client->_bind( lit_arg ) ).
client->view_display( view->stringify( ) ).
ENDMETHOD.
ENDCLASS.
More in Event
On this page