Wire Components
From Documentation
Although the original design principle of MVVM patter is that ViewModel doesn't have any reference to UI components, ZK provide ways to retrieve UI components on a ZUL in a ViewModel. One is passing components as parameters in binding expression. Another is to wire components by Selector. This way enables you to wire components with @Wire like you do in a SelectorComposer. Before doing this, you have to call Selectors.wireComponents() manually and pass the root component in initial method.
Example to wire components in a ViewModel
public class SearchAutowireVM{
//UI component
@Wire("#msgPopup")
Popup popup;
@Wire("#msg")
Label msg;
@Init
public void init(@ContextParam(ContextType.VIEW) Component view){
Selectors.wireComponents(view, this, false);
}
}
- Use @ContextParam(ContextType.VIEW) to retrieve root component. (line 11)