I need to add some custom velocity variables in liferay 6.0.6 running on tomcat 6. Please tell me a way to do it.
I read it in a blog that we need to extend ServicePreAction class and add attribute under the key WebKeys.VM_VARIABLES.
But I am not able to achieve it. Please help me with this and correct me if I am going the wrong way.
Please refer the following question for my exact requirement.
- How to access custom java class in theme.
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Does anyone have an example of how to add a field to a Mapped cache extension? I am trying to extend the SalesPrice functionality in 2019R1. It looks a lot like a DAC... but something tells me I cant simply just make an extension for it..
Thanks
Please see below the diagram showing how it works.
In short, you create a generic graph and a class inherited from PXMapppedCacheExtension which will have all the fields that you need for your reusable logic.
Then you declare the mapping to the class and the implementation of the generic graph.
Please find the complete description by the following link.
I want to add a new section in control panel of liferay and within that section I want to have my custom-portlet. I did it using ext. However I want to do it with hook . Is it possible ?
I don't think it would be that easy with a hook, because of the following reasons:
You can't modify in a Hook - the class com.liferay.portal.util.PortletCategoryKeys which contains the keys for displaying the different sections. The different sections are hard-coded in this class in a String array ALL.
You can't modify the logic of PortalImpl#isControlPanelPortlet() which uses the PortletCategoryKeys#ALL to determine if the request in question is for a control panel portlet.
Then you also have another method which you can't modify with a Hook and is used extensively PortalImpl#getControlPanelCategory()
Doing it with a hook:
I have not tried this but I think if you need to do it with a hook you would have to change all those JSPs which make use of PortletCategoryKeys#ALL and the methods of PortalImpl as stated above, and provide your custom implementation for all these methods in the JSP.
I would really like to know how you implemented it with an EXT may be just the steps or the methods you have overridden. So that I can try to convert those in terms of a hook.
This is as far as my understanding goes. Hope this helps.
With the advent of Marketplace, ControlPanel has a new category named "Marketplace" and that section is introduced in a plugin. However, I never checked if 6.1 GA2 introduced a new section that this plugin just fills. Check the marketplace plugin if you can find a trace of this section implemented there.
On the other hand, nobody has yet named any section that definitely required a new section (though some have asked me how to solve the same problem). For this reason, you might want to re-think the requirement and choose one of the existing sections. If you don't, at least I'd be interested in the name and purpose of the new section - I might find a first one actually justifying this kind of implementation...
I am using liferay ce 6.1.0.I need to extend LayoutAction class in a hook.But the class cannot be loaded in the hook by the class loader
Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: com/liferay/portal/action/LayoutAction
java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.liferay.portal.action.LayoutAction
at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1688)
Is this the issue with the class loader or am I supposed use a different subclass of the following in order to extends.
Thanks in advance
I want to override includeLayoutContent() method of LayoutAction class in order to have a track on the number of views of a page.If this class cannot be extended,is there any other means or class which can be extended to achieve the same
com.liferay.portal.action.LayoutAction is in portal-impl.jar, which is not available to hooks. Therefor you cannot do this.
If you would give us a hint what you want to achieve with this, somebody might be able to tell you how to do what you want to do.
With your added information I'll give you a hint: Typically, a write operation for every pageview is considered to be quite expensive: Your portal's performance will suffer from this. I'd rather advise to use external tools like google anayltics, piwik or similar ones to generate statistics, including the pageviews for specific pages.
Another method, if you can live with the lower potential performance, is to embed such a method in your theme - the theme gets access to the current page and can execute additional functionality with this. Preferably you'll position this at the end of the page, when everything else has already been rendered and sent to the client.
I want to add 3 more methods and one field to liferay.portal.model.User class. Anyone knows how can I do this? Can I switch the class by hook like this:
<service>
<service-type>com.liferay.portal.model.User</service-type>
<service-impl>my.pack.userExpanded</service-impl>
</service>
I want to have a close look at service builder but can't find good sources which will show how to switch liferay class with my own class (cause of too many uses).
So second question is does anyone know about some good tutorial or blogs regarding this? Especially I am interested in adding extra methods and fields.
The standard Liferay Developer Documentation is good:
http://www.liferay.com/documentation/liferay-portal/6.1/development/-/ai/overriding-a-portal-servi-4
Another alternative is to add Custom Fields to User entity:
You can't modify a liferay entity. Neither you can use hook to modify these things, hook can only modify limited things as suggested by the documentation.
I don't think you can even use a EXT to modify a liferay entity.
So now the what comes to my mind remains is to create custom-fields for your field requirement and build a helper utility class which will provide you with your required User methods.
You can make the helper class available to the portal by packaging in a jar and pasting it in the global path (in tomcat [TOMCAT_HOME]/lib/ext).
Can somebody give me a use case as to how can the PortletURLListener be used? if it can be used at all?
Like we have ModelListener can we also use PortletURLListener?
Just like in ModelListener we can inject functionality on creation of a model, on update of a model or on delete and so on.
So can we use the PortletURLListener the same way like ModelListener to do
something when a specific URL is called? Any other approach if not PortletURLListener? Since the name is such I thought that could be of help.
And can we use it in a hook? or it is just used by Liferay? Any other practical usecase you have seen or implemented by extending or using this class?
Thanks in advance.
Thanks Mark for the prompt :-)
The PortletURLListener is used e.g. for deploying and undeploying by Liferay core. For more details see Liferay sources for PortletHotDeployListener:
https://github.com/liferay/liferay-portal/blob/master/portal-impl/src/com/liferay/portal/deploy/hot/PortletHotDeployListener.java
Answer after Update:
You can create hook and put servlet.service.events.post=com.my.MyAfterChangeAction propery to the portal.properties. The MyAfterChangeAction class must implements com.liferay.portal.kernel.events.Action.