abap2UI5

TextArea - Value Update

Since 1.30 the value property of sap.m.TextArea is not updated on every keystroke, but first when the user presses Enter or leaves the input. The change was necessary to fully support the standard UI5 data binding with formatters and types.

Z2UI5_CL_SMPC_APP_280

Controls sap.m UI5 1.71

The facts

Repository
abap2UI5/samples-controls
Class
Z2UI5_CL_SMPC_APP_280
Source file
z2ui5_cl_smpc_app_280.clas.abap
Library
sap.m
UI5 entity
sap.m.TextArea
Demo kit sample
sap.m.sample.TextAreaValueUpdate
SAP's own sample
running at sdk.openui5.org ↗
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: textarea, text, area, sap.m, textareavalueupdate, simpleform, label, switch

Controls it builds

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_smpc_app_280.clas.abap — 92 lines Read it on GitHub ↗
" @keywords textarea text area sap.m textareavalueupdate simpleform label switch
" @summary Since 1.30 the value property of sap.m.TextArea is not updated on every keystroke, but first when the user presses Enter or leaves the input. The change was necessary to fully support the standard UI5 data binding with formatters and types.
CLASS z2ui5_cl_smpc_app_280 DEFINITION PUBLIC.

  PUBLIC SECTION.
    INTERFACES z2ui5_if_app.

    DATA value_live_update TYPE abap_bool.
    DATA input_value       TYPE string.
    DATA get_value         TYPE string.

  PROTECTED SECTION.
    DATA client TYPE REF TO z2ui5_if_client.

    METHODS view_display.
    METHODS on_event.

  PRIVATE SECTION.
ENDCLASS.


CLASS z2ui5_cl_smpc_app_280 IMPLEMENTATION.

  METHOD z2ui5_if_app~main.

    me->client = client.
    IF client->check_on_init( ).
      get_value = ` `.
      view_display( ).
    ELSEIF client->check_on_navigated( ).
      view_display( ).
    ELSEIF client->check_on_event( ).
      on_event( ).
    ENDIF.

  ENDMETHOD.


  METHOD view_display.

    DATA(view) = z2ui5_cl_ui5_view_builder=>factory( ).

    view->ele( n = `View` ns = `mvc`
        )->a( n = `xmlns`      v = `sap.m`
        )->a( n = `xmlns:mvc`  v = `sap.ui.core.mvc`
        )->a( n = `xmlns:form` v = `sap.ui.layout.form`

        )->ele( n = `SimpleForm` ns = `form`
            )->a( n = `editable` v = `true`
            )->a( n = `layout`   v = `ResponsiveGridLayout`

            )->tag( `Label`
                )->a( n = `text` v = `ValueLiveUpdate`
            )->tag( `Switch`
                )->a( n = `state` v = client->_bind( value_live_update )

            )->tag( `Label`
                )->a( n = `text` v = `Type here`
            )->tag( `TextArea`
                )->a( n = `id`              v = `TypeHere`
                )->a( n = `value`           v = client->_bind( input_value )
                )->a( n = `valueLiveUpdate` v = client->_bind( value_live_update )
                )->a( n = `liveChange`      v = client->_event( val = `LIVE_CHANGE` arg = `${$parameters>/value}` )

            )->tag( `Label`
                )->a( n = `text` v = `input.getValue()`
            )->tag( `Text`
                )->a( n = `id`   v = `getValue`
                )->a( n = `text` v = client->_bind( get_value )

            )->tag( `Label`
                )->a( n = `text` v = `model.getProperty()`
            )->tag( `Text`
                )->a( n = `id`   v = `getProperty`
                )->a( n = `text` v = client->_bind( input_value ) ).

    client->view_display( view->stringify( ) ).

  ENDMETHOD.


  METHOD on_event.

    IF client->get_event( ) = `LIVE_CHANGE`.
      " the original controller writes the event's value into the getValue Text,
      " deliberately bypassing the model - here it is the backend that holds it
      get_value = client->get_event_arg( ).
    ENDIF.

  ENDMETHOD.

ENDCLASS.

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