D365 Finance and Operations. SysOperation Framework and Data Contracts.

Overview

The data contract is a class that is the parameter for the entry point to the class that performs the process. The SysOperation framework automatically creates a dialog from the data contract, which will use the EDTs in the contract to provide the label, and even drop-down lists based on the table reference on the EDT.

User interface

You can associate the data contract with the user dialog with the SysOperationContractProcessingAttribute

[
DataContractAttribute,
SysOperationAlwaysInitializeAttribute,
SysOperationContractProcessingAttribute(classStr(CustRecurrenceInvoiceUIBuilder))
]
class CustRecurrenceInvoiceDataContract implements SysOperationInitializable,SysOperationValidatable

or with the SysOperationContractProcessing

[
DataContractAttribute,
SysOperationAlwaysInitializeAttribute,
SysOperationContractProcessing(classstr(CustRecurrenceInvoiceUIBuilder)
]

When you add the parm methods to the contract class the field will be added to the user dialog.

[
DataMemberAttribute,
SysOperationLabelAttribute(literalstr("@SYS318853")),
SysOperationHelpTextAttribute(literalstr("@SYS318854")),
SysOperationDisplayOrderAttribute('1')
]
public TransDate parmFromDate(TransDate _fromDate = fromDate)
{
    fromDate = _fromDate;
    return fromDate;
}

[
DataMemberAttribute,
SysOperationGroupMemberAttribute(identifierStr(Statements)),
SysOperationControlVisibilityAttribute(false)
]
public RefRecID parmWorkOrderLineRecID(RefRecID   _lineRecID = lineRecID)
{
    lineRecID = _lineRecID; 
    return lineRecID;
}

From a technical perspective, data-contracts can implement different interface classes.

Class interfaces

SysOperationInitializable 

The main goal of this interface is to implement the contract initialization. If you want to initialize the default parameters in run time before the UI interface is displayed to the user, you need to implement the SysOperationInitializable class.

class EAMWorkOrderAddNoteDescriptionContract implements SysOperationInitializable

In this case method "initialize" will be available and can be rewritten. This method is used to initialize variables within the data contract. However, this method is called if no user usage data is found.

public void initialize()
{
    this.parmFromDate(DateTimeUtil::getSystemDate());
}

In case the method "initialize" must be called at any time you have to add the SysOperationAlwaysInitializeAttribute to your contract.

[
DataContractAttribute,
SysOperationAlwaysInitializeAttribute,
SysOperationContractProcessingAttribute(classStr(CustRecurrenceInvoiceUIBuilder))
]
class CustRecurrenceInvoiceDataContract

In addition, if you want to clean up the field value on the dialog, it is required to add the same SysOperationAlwaysInitializeAttribute attribute to the desired method:

[
DataMemberAttribute,
SysOperationAlwaysInitializeAttribute,
SysOperationLabelAttribute(literalstr("@SYS318853")),
SysOperationHelpTextAttribute(literalstr("@SYS318854")),
SysOperationDisplayOrderAttribute('1')
]
public TransDate parmFromDate(TransDate _fromDate = fromDate)
{
    fromDate = _fromDate;
    return fromDate;
}


SysOperationValidatable

The main goal of the SysOperationValidatable interface is to implement the contract validation. It allows you to validate the values provided for the data contract. For example, when users enter the field value on the dialog and press the “OK” button the "validate" method of the data contract will be called.

From a code perspective, its implementation looks like:

class CustRecurrenceInvoiceDataContract implements SysOperationValidatable

In addition, you heed to override the "validate" method:

/// <summary>
/// Determines whether the parameters are valid.
/// </summary>
/// <returns>
/// True when the parameters are valid; otherwise, false.
/// </returns>
public boolean validate()
{
    boolean ok = true;

    // add your validation here

    return ok;
}


SysPackable

The SysPackable interface implementation forces the data contract class to create the "pack" and "unpack" methods which means that we can do serialization on it, like pack and unpack the variables defined in the #CurrentList for the #CurrentVersion macro. 

class EAMWorkOrderAddNoteDescriptionContract implements SysPackable
{
    Int   dummy;

    #define.CurrentVersion(1)
    #localmacro.CurrentList
        dummy
    #endmacro
}

public container pack()
{
    return [#CurrentVersion, #CurrentList];
}

public boolean unpack(container _packedClass)
{
    Version version = RunBase::getVersion(_packedClass);
    boolean ret = true;

    switch (version)
    {
        case #CurrentVersion:
            [version, #CurrentList] = _packedClass;
            break;

        default:
            ret = false;
    }

    return ret;
}

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D365 Finance and Operations. SysOperation Framework and Data Contracts.

Overview The data contract is a class that is the parameter for the entry point to the class that performs the process. The SysOperation fra...