The actions of a method call

The method call actions allow you to call methods 'controller' with a specific signature or any other method with arbitrary parameters (Standard Methods).

Methods 'controller'

Here is the method signature 'controller':

public void my_method(ActionRequest request, ActionResponse response)

And here is the definition of an action for calling this method:

<action-method name="action-sale-order-confirm">
    <call class="com.axelor.sale.web.SaleOrderController" method="onConfirm"/>
</action-method>

The standard method

There are actions that require a specific method. The result of the method can be assigned to any field. Suppose there is a method like this:

public class Hello {
   ...
   public String say(String what) {
       return "About: " + what;
   }
}

We can call this method with the action-method like this:

<action-method name="act-contact-say">
 <call class="com.axelor.contact.web.Hello" method="say(fullName)"/>
</action-method>

The format method is simply the standard Java syntax, such as:

my_method(arg1, arg2, "some-constant", 1222)

The arg1 and arg2 are assumed to come from the context, while the other two values are constants.

For example:

<action-record name="action-contact-defaults" model="com.axelor.contact.db.Contact">
   ...
   <field name="firstName" expr="John"/>
   <field name="lastName" expr="Smith"/>
   ....
   <field name="notes" expr="action:act-contact-say"/>
</action-record>

or else

<action-record name="action-contact-defaults" model="com.axelor.contact.db.Contact">
   ...
   <field name="firstName" expr="John"/>
   <field name="lastName" expr="Smith"/>
   ....
   <field name="notes" expr="call:com.axelor.contact.web.Hello:say(fullName)"/>
</action-record>

The result will be assigned to the field "notes."

Signing a standard method can be arbitrary in the parameters, however it should return an object of type ActionResponse or Map for the response to be correctly interpreted by the web client.