Seam Newbie Needs Help On CRUD Search

[satoshi523]

I'm a Seam newbie. I generated the CRUD framework from my MySQL table using seam gen and everything works. I am trying to figure out how the search function works. I have scanned every module that is related to my table name and found no dynamic query.  Can anyone tell me how this works or can direct me to any documentation.

[svadu]

There is not that much dos on the topic, I know, so here are few tips for you:

It's using a class that extends EntityQuery. You can find a static RESTRICTIONS array there - that's where the conditions are 'assembled'. Entity query takes care of building the dynamic query.

To actually trigger the search a pull style MVC is used (someone correct me if I am wrong here): http://docs.jboss.com/seam/latest/reference/en/html/tutorial.html#blog

EntityQuery isn't described in that section but it's still seem to be used in this way.

[satoshi523]

Siahei,

Thanks for your help. At first glance, I thought the search query was initiated by the search button.  But now I know that the query  was initiated when the page was rendered.  The search button only re-renders the page

Thanks again,

Wayne