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New Methods

 This section details various new methods added to the classes that make up the WebObjects Framework.
WOAdaptor
Method Description
runOnce The main application run loop invokes this method for each iteration through the request-response loop. This method is where adaptors should do the bulk of their work.
doesBusyRunOnce An adaptor should implement this method to return whether repeatedly invoking runOnce would result in busy waiting.
dispatchesRequestsConcurrently An adaptor should implement this method to return YES or true if the adaptor contains multiple threads and concurrently invokes request handlers.
WOApplication
Method Description
handleInitialTimer Initial timer callback method.
cancelInitialTimer Cancels the initial timer.
WOComponent
Method Description
validationFailedWithException:value:keyPath: (Objective-C) validationFailedWithException (Java) Called when an enterprise object or a formatter failed validation during an assignment. The default implementation of this method ignores the error. Subclassers can override it to record the error and possibly return a different page for the current action.
hasSession A convenience method that returns YES or true if there is a current session.
pageWithName: A convenience method that returns the WOComponent with the specified name.
WOContext
Method Description
contextWithRequest: Returns a new WOContext for the specified WORequest object.
initWithRequest: (Objective-C only) Initializes a newly-created WOContext object with the specified WORequest.
hasSession Returns whether the session exists.
isInForm Returns whether WebObjects is executing code within a WOForm. Invoking setInForm: with true or YES also causes this method to return true or YES. Use this method when writing your own WOForm dynamic element, or an input type dynamic element.
setInForm: Forces the value returned by isInForm. Invoking this method impacts all elements processed thereafter. Use this method when writing your own WOForm dynamic element, or an input type dynamic element.
directActionURLForActionNamed:queryDictionary: (Objective-C) directActionURLForActionNamed (Java) Returns the full URL for the named action.
componentActionURL Returns the full URL for the element you are currently at.
urlWithRequestHandlerKey:path:queryString: (Objective-C) urlWithRequestHandlerKey (Java) Returns a URL relative to cgi-bin/WebObjects for the specified request handler.
completeURLWithRequestHandlerKey:path:
queryString:isSecure:port: (Objective-C) completeURLWithRequestHandlerKey (Java) 		Returns the complete URL for the specified request handler, including http:// or https://.
WODisplayGroup
Method Description
setSelectedObjects: Sets the selected objects.
setSelectedObject: Sets the selected object.
indexOfFirstDisplayedObject Returns the index of the first object in the current batch.
indexOfLastDisplayedObject Returns the index of the last object in the current batch.
WORequest
Method Description
browserLanguages Returns the language preference list from the user's browser.
formValues Returns an NSDictionary containing all of the form data name/value pairs.
WOResponse
Method Description
disableClientCaching Disables caching of this response in the user's browser.
defaultEncoding (Objective-C) Returns the default character encoding used to construct WOResponses. By default, this encoding is NSISOLatin1.
setDefaultEncoding: (Objective-C) Allows you to specify the character encoding that is used by default when constructing WOResponses.
stringByEscapingHTMLString: Returns the supplied string with certain characters escaped out. Use this method to escape strings which will appear in the visible part of an html file (that is, not inside a tag).
stringByEscapingHTMLAttributeValue: Returns the supplied string with certain characters escaped out. Use this method to escape strings which will appear as attribute values of a tag.
WOSession
Method Description
removeObjectForKey: (Objective-C only) Removes the object from the session dictionary that corresponds to the specified key.
setDefaultEditingContext: Sets the editing context to be returned by defaultEditingContext. This can be used to set an editing context initialized with a parent object store other than the default (useful, for instance, when each session needs its own login to the database).

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