Show view of read only entity throws an exception

Hello,

Since this is my first roo project I'm not that experienced. I believe I discovered an unwanted feature.

I have created one entity that is read only since the data in the table is supposed to be created by a backend process. The web interface will be only used for viewing the data.

I used the following roo command for this:

entity jpa --class ~.SapLogging --table PPSIFACE --readOnly --versionField ver

I followed the complete tutorial and I got the web application running.

The web page properly lists the entries in this table. When I click on the tools to view the contents I get HTTP 500 error. In the output on the console I see the following error:

 

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Invalid method name: editForm

 

I figured out that this is caused by the "Edit" button placed in the show.html.

 

After struggling around I changed the freemarker's template to condition the placing of the Edit button:
<#if entity.readOnly == false>

<div class="clearfix">
<div class="pull-right">
<a id="${entityName}_edit" href="edit.html" class="btn btn-primary"
data-th-title="${r"# {"}label_goEdit}"
data-th-href="${"${"}@linkBuilder.of('${mvcItemControllerName}').to('editForm').with('${modelAttributeName}', ${modelAttributeName}.${identifierField})}"
data-th-text="${r"#{"}

label_edit}">Edit</a>
</div>
</div>
</#if>

 

I hope this makes sense and can be included standard in the release. 

 

Regards,

Peter