How to Retrieve ADF Select Many Shuttle Selection

ADF Faces provides long list of rich UI components. One of them shuttle component, it allows to create shuttle type multi-selection lists out of the box. We were looking how to access shuttled items programmatically, didn't found any proper info on the Web - decided to contribute to community with one more hint. If you will read ADF Faces developer guide, there is a suggestion to use ADFShuttleUtils Java Script object in order to access shuttle items. This means you would need to implement af:clientListener for Java Script invocation and so on, but I'm not a big fan of using Java Script for such scenarios. Let's find easier and better solution.

Download sample application - ShuttleAccessApp.zip. This simple application implements ADF Select Many Shuttle and provides managed bean methods to operate this component:

You only need to specify Base and Display attributes, then ADF Select Many Shuttle is defined:

List binding - DepartmentsView1, will be defined inside Page Definition file - we will use this binding to access shuttled elements from managed bean:

Here is the most interesting part, instead of using Java Script API, you can simply get the list binding inside managed bean and iterate through shuttled items:

It could be common requirement to clean shuttled items with external button, we can achieve this by clearing selected indices:

Shuttle some items and press Process Selection button:

We access shuttled items from managed bean:

Press Clear Selection button to remove shuttled element, this will clean shuttle programmatically: