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What Are Named and Indexed Children in OAF

Indexed and named children are types of child elements in an OAF page hierarchy. Indexed children are arranged sequentially under a "contents" role element, while named children have predefined positions under specific non-contents role elements. For example, in a sample HelloWorldPG page, child elements under the "contents" role like PageLayoutRN and MainRN are indexed children, while corporateBranding and productBranding under other roles are named children. Developers can use different methods like findIndexedChildRecursive and getNamedChild to locate these children in the controller code.

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What Are Named and Indexed Children in OAF

Indexed and named children are types of child elements in an OAF page hierarchy. Indexed children are arranged sequentially under a "contents" role element, while named children have predefined positions under specific non-contents role elements. For example, in a sample HelloWorldPG page, child elements under the "contents" role like PageLayoutRN and MainRN are indexed children, while corporateBranding and productBranding under other roles are named children. Developers can use different methods like findIndexedChildRecursive and getNamedChild to locate these children in the controller code.

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WhatareNamedandIndexedChildreninOAF?

TalksAbout:IndexedandnamedchildreninOAF.
Everyougotcuriousaboutquestionslike"Whatisnamedchildren?Whatisindexedchildren?"
InshaAllahinthisarticleImaytrytoexplain,whatthesetermsmeantoanOAFrameoworkDeveloper.
Iguessthisistheonlyarticleoninternetwhichmaytellyouaboutmuchused,butmuchlessunderstoodconceptofindexedandnamedchildren
inOAF.Thisisoneofthepurposeofthiswebsite...clearingtheconcepts.
YouknowthatanOAFpageismadeupofXMLtags/elements.Theseelementsareusedtodefinecomponentswhicharevisibletouser(like
button,textbox)aswellascomponentswhicharenotvisibletotheuser.
Layoutcomponentsarethefamousnonvisiblecomponentswhichareusedtocontrolpositionetc.ofthevisiblecomponents.
AnOAFpageishierarchicalstructureofparentandchildrelationships.Usually,Layoutelementsaretheparentswhosechildrenarevisiblechild
elements.
Thedifferenceofhowachildelementisarrangedinalayoutelement,makesthatchildanamedchildoranindexedchild.
Inthishierarchy,thereisanotherelementcalled"roleelement"whichdecideshowthechildrenarearrangedinthatlayout.
Iftheroleelementis"contents",childrenarearrangedinasequentialorder.Thus,thesechildrenarecalledindexedchildrenof
thatlayoutelement.
Ifsomespecificelement(notcontents)isusedas"roleelement",topredefinepositionsofchildrenelements,thanthesechildren
arecallednamedchildrenofthatlayoutelement.
Namedchildrengetsspecialtreatment(placedatspecialplace),thustreatedasVIP.
Indexedchildrenarecommonman,gointhequeue,onebyone.
Nowletstakeaviewofstandard"HelloWorldPG.xml"toseewhatarethenamedandindexedchildrenavailablethere.

Green:LayoutElements.
Red:RoleElements.
Yellow:Childelements.
IndexedChildren:
Eachdirectchildof"contents"elementisindexedchildofthedirectparentlayout.
IDsofsomeindexedchildreninthispage:
PageLayoutRN
MainRN
HelloName
Go
IDsofsomenamedchildren
corporateBranding
productBranding
Anoteaboutfindingchildrenincontroller.
webBean.findChildRecursive:tofindoutanychildren(bothnamedandindexed)
findIndexedChildRecursive:tofindspecificindexchild
webBean.getNamedChild:togetaspecificnamedchild.

Nowifyouhaveconfusionabouthowtolocatespecificbeanincontroller,justlookatthexmlofthepageanduseappropriatemethod.
SeeOAFjavadocumentationformoremethodstolocatespecificchildinyourpagebeanhierarchy.
Hereissomethingtoseethatalayoutcancontainonlysingle"contents"roleelement(whichinturncancontainmanyindexedchildren).
However,alayoutmaycontainmultiplenamedroletoholddifferentnamechildren.Butagain,eachnamedrolecancontainonlysinglenamed 1/2
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However,alayoutmaycontainmultiplenamedroletoholddifferentnamechildren.Butagain,eachnamedrolecancontainonlysinglenamed
child.
That'sit.
Niceee...

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