ADF ViewLink - Cardinality & Accessor

Oracle ADF view links are business components that defines a relationship between two ADF view objects . when we say relationship between two ADF view objects and it is obvious it can be used in Master-Detail data representation . For more info on Master-Detail relationship ADF Master - Detail Relationship .

In general view objects contains query that queries the database and view link will relate those queries using where clause.

For ex :  you want to render  employees based on department as a master - child ..

View Link = DepartmentsVO --> EmployeesVO

select DepartmentId from DepartmentsVO and DepartmentId from EmployeesVO and the click Add . Let cardinality be 1 to * [ Means : One department can contain many employees ] This cardinality will have an impact in the accessor generation .

In the next step

Generate Accessor :

 By default Destination Accessor , In View Object  : DepartmentsVO check box ll be selected . we will check the In View Object  : Employees VO in the Source Accessor.  This will add some code in both the VO Row Impl class .

 DepartmentsVO :

    public RowIterator getEmployeesVO() {
        return (RowIterator)getAttributeInternal(EMPLOYEESVO);
    }

Employees VO :

    public Row getDepartmentsVO() {
        return (Row)getAttributeInternal(DEPARTMENTSVO);
    }


The cardinality is 1 to * [1 to Many ] so ideally a department can be able to get all employees in it and tats why it has an accessor defined in its  DepVORowImpl class with return type Row Iterator . And the accessor in EmpVORowImpl will return a single row (as an employee can be in only one dept )

If the cardinality is 1 to 1  > Both the class will have a return type Row as it says 1 to 1 .

you can use these methods as Groovy expressions to get values in the ADF BC attribute level and in AM Impl class..