Exposing Entity Object Methods to Clients

By design, Oracle ADF does not allow clients to directly access entity objects. Because entity objects are business domain components, they are intended to encapsulate logic about datasource entities, not provide services to client programs. For more information, see the related topics list.

However, you may have methods affecting particular datasource entities that you want to expose to clients. If you have such a method, you must create a delegator method on a view row class for a view object with a usage of the entity.

To create a delegator method:

Create a view row-level service method with the same name as the entity object method.
In the body of the view row method, find the relevant entity object using the get<Entity>() accessor and call its method.
For example, if the entity object Employees contains a method grantRaise(), you could create the following method on the view row class for any view object containing a usage of Employees:
```
public void grantRaise(int percent)
{
  getEmployees().grantRaise(percent);
}                
```