Hello Jmix Team
Can you please extend the “Opening Dialog Windows” 2.x.x documentation here:
If you need to pass parameters to the opened view, invoke the build() terminal method, set parameters to the view, then open the window:
@Autowired
private DialogWindows dialogWindows;
private void openViewWithParams(String username) {
DialogWindow<MyOnboardingView> window =
dialogWindows.view(this, MyOnboardingView.class).build();
window.getView().setUsername(username);
window.open();
}
with additional information to explain that when the build() method is invoked, the onInit(final InitEvent event) {...} handler method of the opening view will be called. Therefore, you cannot access anything that is passed to the newly opened view with window.getView().<new view method> inside the onInit() handler of the new view, e.g. the username in the example above.
In versions 1.x.x I had been passing ScreenOptions while opening my screens and was able to access these options in the onInit() handler and I thought that this build() and window.getView().<new view method> could replace this approach but it does not and requires moving my code into the onBeforeShow(final BeforeShowEvent event) {…} handler.
This is an important design consideration and also when migrating existing code to the Flow UI.
Thank you in advance for considering this suggestion.
Best regards
Chris