Create View dynamically?

[aktp]

Can we create different instance of 'View' in runtime and fire it up on the page?


The following code doesn't work properly, it will give me null pointer exception. Can anyone kind enough to correct me pls

DefaultViewDescriptor vdesciptor = new DefaultViewDescriptor();
vdesciptor.setViewClass(MyView.class);   
getActiveWindow().getPage().showView(vdesciptor);

java.lang.NullPointerException
at org.springframework.richclient.application.support .AbstractApplicationPage$1.test(AbstractApplicatio nPage.java:73)
at org.springframework.core.closure.support.AbstractE lementGenerator$ObjectFinder.handle(AbstractElemen tGenerator.java:182)
at org.springframework.core.closure.support.Block.cal l(Block.java:28)
at org.springframework.core.closure.support.AbstractE lementGeneratorWorkflow.run(AbstractElementGenerat orWorkflow.java:26)
at org.springframework.core.closure.support.AbstractE lementGenerator.findFirst(AbstractElementGenerator .java:74)
at org.springframework.core.closure.support.AbstractE lementGenerator.findFirst(AbstractElementGenerator .java:69)
at org.springframework.core.closure.support.Algorithm s.findFirst(Algorithms.java:125)
at org.springframework.core.closure.support.Algorithm s.findFirst(Algorithms.java:113)
at org.springframework.core.closure.support.Algorithm sAccessor.findFirst(AlgorithmsAccessor.java:35)
at org.springframework.core.closure.support.AbstractC onstraint.findFirst(AbstractConstraint.java:51)
at org.springframework.richclient.application.support .AbstractApplicationPage.findPageComponent(Abstrac tApplicationPage.java:77)
at org.springframework.richclient.application.support .AbstractApplicationPage.showView(AbstractApplicat ionPage.java:168)

[ge0ffrey]

I 've hacked it like this...

public class XView ... {
public XView() {
// HACK to fit a view into a form
DefaultViewDescriptor defaultViewDescriptor = new DefaultViewDescriptor();
defaultViewDescriptor.setId(VIEW_ID);
setDescriptor(defaultViewDescriptor);
...


But Views and Forms should be retrievable from the application context at runtime and more interchangable

[aktp]

if u set the descriptor inside the XView class, how can u show it up on the page? When you use getPage().showView(descriptor), it will complain "A view descriptor may only be set once". Is there any workaround? thanx

[ge0ffrey]

In my use case, I just wanted to add a View inside a Form (=ugly hack), so I did something like xView.getControl()
The reason I wanted that in my use case was because I have a CrudView, which supports new/edit/delete on a domain object list and is injected with a CrudService.