ADF Mobile - Reading custom properties from adf-config.xml

Take a scenario where you have integrated the push notification feature into mobile application and application needs to be shipped to client, to work push notification feature you need Sender ID for both Android and iOS and client want's to use their own Sender Id.

Next question will be where can we store the custom Sender Id in the application so that the client can edit. Credit goes to Srini Indla(Oracle), I have extracted the idea based on one of his forum reply and below is one of the way.

Custom values can be stored in add-config.xml file under <adf:adf-properties-child> tag, add-config.xml is used to configure application-level settings, including the Configuration Service parameters and read more on ADF Mobile Configuration Service Usage. The advantage of storing the properties and accessing it via the adf-confg.xml is that the values can be accessible using the EL expression at run time.

Below is a sample adf-confif.xml with custom properties:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" ?>
<adf-config xmlns="http://xmlns.oracle.com/adf/config" xmlns:config="http://xmlns.oracle.com/bc4j/configuration"
            xmlns:adf="http://xmlns.oracle.com/adf/config/properties">
  <adf-adfm-config xmlns="http://xmlns.oracle.com/adfm/config">
    <defaults changeEventPolicy="ppr" useBindVarsForViewCriteriaLiterals="true"/>
    <startup>
      <amconfig-overrides>
        <config:Database jbo.locking.mode="optimistic"/>
      </amconfig-overrides>
    </startup>
  </adf-adfm-config>
  <adf:adf-properties-child xmlns="http://xmlns.oracle.com/adf/config/properties">
    <adf-property name="adfAppUID" value="MobileAdfConfig-1564"/>
    <adf-property name="username" value="Weblogic"/>
    <adf-property name="password" value="Weblogic1"/>
  </adf:adf-properties-child>
</adf-config>

In Amx page you can access the above custom defined properties using EL expression.
For ex:  "#{applicationScope.configuration.username}"

Below is the sample code to access custom properties from adf-config.xml in managed bean.

ValueExpression userNameVe =
            AdfmfJavaUtilities.getValueExpression("#{applicationScope.configuration.username}", String.class);
String userName = (String)userNameVe.getValue(AdfmfJavaUtilities.getAdfELContext());

ValueExpression passwordVe =
            AdfmfJavaUtilities.getValueExpression("#{applicationScope.configuration.password}", String.class);
String password = (String)passwordVe.getValue(AdfmfJavaUtilities.getAdfELContext());