Control Behaviour
Jumps a Carousel to a page that was cloned from a bound template - addressed positionally as id/aggregation/index, the only way to reach a clone.
Z2UI5_CL_SMP_APP_514
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Control Behaviour
UI5 1.71
The facts
- Repository
- abap2UI5/samples
- Class
Z2UI5_CL_SMP_APP_514- Source file
z2ui5_cl_smp_app_514.clas.abap↗- Category
- Control Behaviour
- Learning path
- Reach outside the view
- Minimum UI5
- 1.71 — the floor abap2UI5 holds its samples to
- In the playground
- runs in the browser, with no system and nothing installed
- Documentation
- abap2ui5.github.io/docs/cookbook/event_navigation/frontend ↗
Keywords: carousel, aggregation, item, index, clone, template, setactivepage, positional, control_by_id
Controls it builds
- sap.m.Button
- sap.m.Carousel
- sap.m.HBox
- sap.m.MessageStrip
- sap.m.Page
- sap.m.Shell
- sap.m.Text
- sap.m.Title
- sap.m.VBox
- sap.ui.core.mvc.View
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
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The ABAP
z2ui5_cl_smp_app_514.clas.abap — 172 lines
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" @keywords carousel aggregation item index clone template setactivepage positional control_by_id
" @summary Jumps a Carousel to a page that was cloned from a bound template - addressed positionally as id/aggregation/index, the only way to reach a clone.
" @docs https://abap2ui5.github.io/docs/cookbook/event_navigation/frontend
CLASS z2ui5_cl_smp_app_514 DEFINITION PUBLIC.
PUBLIC SECTION.
INTERFACES z2ui5_if_app.
TYPES:
BEGIN OF ty_s_page,
title TYPE string,
text TYPE string,
END OF ty_s_page.
DATA t_pages TYPE STANDARD TABLE OF ty_s_page WITH EMPTY KEY.
PROTECTED SECTION.
DATA client TYPE REF TO z2ui5_if_client.
" not bound - the index the backend last jumped to, counted from 1
DATA current TYPE i.
METHODS view_display.
METHODS model_init.
METHODS on_event.
METHODS page_show
IMPORTING
index TYPE i.
PRIVATE SECTION.
ENDCLASS.
CLASS z2ui5_cl_smp_app_514 IMPLEMENTATION.
METHOD z2ui5_if_app~main.
me->client = client.
IF client->check_on_init( ).
model_init( ).
view_display( ).
ELSEIF client->check_on_navigated( ).
view_display( ).
ELSEIF client->check_on_event( ).
on_event( ).
ENDIF.
ENDMETHOD.
METHOD model_init.
t_pages = VALUE #( ( title = `Bicycle` text = `The first page of the carousel.` )
( title = `Car` text = `The second page - and the one the buttons below jump to.` )
( title = `Train` text = `The third page.` )
( title = `Aircraft` text = `The fourth and last page.` ) ).
current = 1.
ENDMETHOD.
METHOD page_show.
current = index.
" A page of this carousel is a CLONE of the aggregation template, and a
" clone has no id the backend can spell: UI5 mints it from the template
" id, the parent id and the position, and the parent id carries the view
" prefix assigned at runtime. So the item is addressed POSITIONALLY -
" `<control id>/<aggregation>/<index>`, 0-based - which the frontend
" resolves against the live aggregation. It is the equivalent of the UI5
" controller idiom oCarousel.setActivePage( oCarousel.getPages()[ i ] ).
client->follow_up_action( val = z2ui5_if_client=>cs_event-control_by_id
t_arg = VALUE #( ( `demoCarousel` )
( `setActivePage` )
( |demoCarousel/pages/{ index - 1 }| ) ) ).
ENDMETHOD.
METHOD on_event.
CASE client->get_event( ).
WHEN `FIRST`.
page_show( 1 ).
WHEN `NEXT`.
" wrap around at the end - the count is ABAP's, not the carousel's
page_show( COND #( WHEN current >= lines( t_pages ) THEN 1 ELSE current + 1 ) ).
WHEN `LAST`.
page_show( lines( t_pages ) ).
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` ).
DATA(page) = view->ele( `Shell`
)->ele( `Page`
)->a( n = `title` v = `abap2UI5 - Control Behaviour - Aggregation Item by Index`
)->a( n = `showNavButton` b = client->check_app_prev_stack( )
)->a( n = `navButtonPress` v = client->_event_nav_app_leave( ) ).
page->tag( `MessageStrip`
)->a( n = `text` v = `The carousel pages are clones of a bound template, so none of them has an id the backend ` &&
`could name. Wherever a control call takes a control id it also takes an aggregation item, written ` &&
`id/aggregation/index and counted from 0.`
)->a( n = `type` v = `Information`
)->a( n = `showIcon` b = abap_true
)->a( n = `class` v = `sapUiSmallMargin` ).
page->ele( `HBox`
)->a( n = `class` v = `sapUiSmallMargin`
)->tag( `Button`
)->a( n = `press` v = client->_event( `FIRST` )
)->a( n = `text` v = `First`
)->a( n = `icon` v = `sap-icon://close-command-field`
)->a( n = `class` v = `sapUiTinyMarginEnd`
)->tag( `Button`
)->a( n = `press` v = client->_event( `NEXT` )
)->a( n = `text` v = `Next`
)->a( n = `icon` v = `sap-icon://navigation-right-arrow`
)->a( n = `class` v = `sapUiTinyMarginEnd`
)->tag( `Button`
)->a( n = `press` v = client->_event( `LAST` )
)->a( n = `text` v = `Last`
)->a( n = `icon` v = `sap-icon://open-command-field` ).
page->ele( `Carousel`
)->a( n = `id` v = `demoCarousel`
)->a( n = `height` v = `20rem`
)->a( n = `pages` v = client->_bind( t_pages )
)->a( n = `class` v = `sapUiSmallMargin`
)->ele( `pages`
)->ele( `VBox`
)->a( n = `justifyContent` v = `Center`
)->a( n = `alignItems` v = `Center`
)->a( n = `height` v = `100%`
)->tag( `Title`
)->a( n = `text` v = `{TITLE}`
)->a( n = `level` v = `H2`
)->tag( `Text`
)->a( n = `text` v = `{TEXT}`
)->a( n = `class` v = `sapUiSmallMarginTop` ).
client->view_display( view->stringify( ) ).
" The active page is live control state that no binding carries: this
" response destroys the view slot and the frontend rebuilds the control
" tree, so the carousel comes back on its first page while `current`
" survives in ABAP. Re-issuing the call from here - after the view that
" will hold it - is what keeps the two in step across a rebuild.
page_show( current ).
ENDMETHOD.
ENDCLASS.
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