AutoNamedView

AutoNamedView<T> is the internal wrapper that AutoCrud<T> and FilteredAutoCrud<Filters,T> use to turn an entity into a fully functional CRUD screen. It implements Named, CrudEditorForm<String>, CrudCreationForm<String>, EditableFieldsProvider, and StateSupplier — everything a CRUD screen needs.

new AutoNamedView<>(entityClass, entity, repository)

Constructor parameter	Purpose
entityClass	Determines which fields to render (allEditableFields())
entity	The object serialised as state and used for id() and name()
repository	Called by save() and create() to persist the entity

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What AutoNamedView does for each method

Method	Behaviour
id()	Returns entity.id()
name()	Returns entity.toString(), or Named.name() if the entity implements Named
state(httpRequest)	Returns the entity object — serialised as the form’s initial field values
allEditableFields()	Reflects over entityClass to find all editable fields
save(httpRequest)	Deserialises the submitted form state back into T, calls repository.save()
create(httpRequest)	Same as save(), returns the new entity’s id

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When you interact with AutoNamedView directly

You only need to construct an AutoNamedView when overriding buildNamedView() or buildCreationForm() in your AutoCrud / FilteredAutoCrud subclass to pre-populate fields or add custom view logic:

@Override
public AutoNamedView<Order> buildCreationForm(HttpRequest httpRequest) {
    var order = new Order();
    order.setDate(LocalDate.now());
    order.setStatus(OrderStatus.DRAFT);
    return new AutoNamedView<>(Order.class, order, repository());
}

For fully custom view/editor/creation form types (different DTOs per screen), use CrudAdapter directly and return objects implementing CrudEditorForm / CrudCreationForm — no AutoNamedView needed.

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Next

• Customising AutoCrud behaviour — the override hooks that return AutoNamedView
• CrudEditorForm and CrudCreationForm — the alternative when each screen has a separate DTO
• Identifiable, Named, and Searchable — the entity interfaces AutoNamedView builds on