I have two questions
How do I achieve the following, I have a domain class called 'Property' - Property has two properties 'Type' and 'Value' it is currently being serialized as the following:
<Property Type="TestType"><Value>TestValue<Value><Property>
I need it to format as
<Property Type="TestType">TestValue</Property>
but I am not sure how? I have set Value to represent an Element, which does explain why it gets it's own tags but I don't want them.
I have another class - Parameter - it has a property of IsCollection ( a bool ) , I would like the IsCollection attribute to be serialized only when it is set to true, is this possible?
i.e
<Parameter Name="Foo" IsCollection="true" />
otherwise
<Parameter Name="Foo" />
Thanks Phill
I'm not sure if this will work or not, but in the DSL explorer, find the classes Serializer and you can mark it as custom. If you transform and compile you'll get a bunch of errors that indicate you need to provide your own custom serializer. I believe that you can put these customizations and other in there, though it may be more work than you are looking for.
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I'm currently working with citrus-framework to test an application.
One of my interfaces uses Protobuf and I would like to implement a protobuf-to-json-transformer which is compatible with spring-integration to use it similarly like the following but with my transformer instead of the object-to-string-transformer:
<int:channel id="configRawReplies" />
<int:object-to-string-transformer id="configtransformer" input-channel="configRawReplies" output-channel="configResponse" />
<int:channel id="configResponse">
<int:queue />
</int:channel>
for now I have a prototyp exactly like object-to-string-transformer and I'm loading it with:
<bean id="Proto2Json" class="com.nobody.citrus.transformer.ProtoToJSONString">
<property name="input-channel" value="none"/>
<property name="output-channel" value="none"/>
</bean>
but it fails.
Exception encountered during context initialization - cancelling refresh attempt: org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'Proto2Json' defined in URL [file:/Users/nobody/DevOops/test/citrus-scala/target/test-classes/citrus-context.xml]:
Error setting property values; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.NotWritablePropertyException:
Invalid property 'input-channel' of bean class [com.pme.citrus.transformer.ProtoToJSONString]:
Bean property 'input-channel' is not writable or has an invalid setter method. Does the parameter type of the setter match the return type of the getter?
Does somebody have an idea or an hint where to look on the web?
BR
That's correct. You really need to follow a design in the ObjectToStringTransformer to implement your own AbstractPayloadTransformer. And that one has to be as a plain <bean> definition in your application context.
Only the problem that you don't understand why we really have all those custom tags to utilize input-channel and output-channel attributes as well. The point is that this
<int:object-to-string-transformer>, for example, provides for the application context several beans, including the mentioned ObjectToStringTransformer instance, a MessageTransformingHandler and, finally, ConsumerEndpointFactoryBean to connect a MessageHandler with an inputChannel.
So, what you are missing here is a generic <int:transformer> definition for your custom AbstractPayloadTransformer implementation:
<bean id="Proto2Json" class="com.nobody.citrus.transformer.ProtoToJSONString"/>
<int:tranformer ref="Proto2Json" input-channel="configRawReplies" output-channel="configResponse"/>
Please, read more Reference Manual to avoid similar discussions in the future:
https://docs.spring.io/spring-integration/reference/html/overview.html#programming-tips
https://docs.spring.io/spring-integration/reference/html/messaging-transformation-chapter.html
Indexing an external content type is pretty straight forward.
However I find it very troublesome to figure out the specific "crawl state" of a particular item.
Looking at the "Url View" inside SharePoint CA it shows me all my crawled/indexed items. Unfortunately the url part is nowhere near readable. So I have no clue where to look for my specific item in question.
Example:
bdc3://adventureworksdbtest/Default/00000000%2D0000%2D0000%2D0000%2D000000000000/418/AdventureworksDB/420?s_id=i0QMAAA==&s_ce=0408808680g000g10204000g0o20003s
Guid.Empty?
418?
420?
Some encoded id? (it's not BASE64. i0QMAAA== translates to nothing).
The AdventureWorks product table has a productID (int) and a name (string). In my BDC model I mapped the "Title" column to the product's "Name" column for my Product entity. See below...
<Entity Name="Product" Namespace="Rs.Exp.IndexingConnector.BuiltinDbConnector" Version="1.0.0.1">
<Properties>
<Property Name="OriginalName" Type="System.String">[Production].[Product]</Property>
<Property Name="EntitySetName" Type="System.String">[Production].[Product]</Property>
<Property Name="Title" Type="System.String">Name</Property>
</Properties>
<Identifiers>
<Identifier Name="ProductID" TypeName="System.Int32" />
</Identifiers>
<!-- [...] -->
</Entity>
That's working. However it has no influence on the "index url". Any hints? Something I have to live with? How do you debug this?
Update: DisplayUriField sounds like a good thing to look into. Although all I found so far is not what I am looking for. I'm not looking for a way to provide an url myself (where would I link to anyway?!) - I just want the "generated url" to be more meaningful.
Answering my own question in case anyone else is wondering how this works.
The Method(Instance) Property "DisplayUriField" is in fact providing the desired functionality. As a value you can set the name of a TypeDescriptor which is part of your entity schema.
For example if you have a TypeDescriptor like the one below (make sure your SELECT statement returns the column in question)...
<TypeDescriptor Name="Url" TypeName="System.String">
<Properties>
<Property Name="ShowInPicker" Type="System.Boolean">false</Property>
</Properties>
</TypeDescriptor>
...you can use it as a value for your DisplayUriField property:
<MethodInstances>
<MethodInstance Name="GetAllProducts" Type="Finder" ReturnParameterName="GetAllProducts_Returned" Default="true" DefaultDisplayName="Get All Products">
<Properties>
<Property Name="RootFinder" Type="System.String">x</Property>
<Property Name="LastModifiedTimeStampField" Type="System.String">ModifiedDate</Property>
<Property Name="DisplayUriField" Type="System.String">Url</Property>
</Properties>
</MethodInstance>
</MethodInstances>
My Database Table Url column contains urls like this
http://localhost/adventurworks/catalog/1
http://localhost/adventurworks/catalog/316
http://localhost/adventurworks/catalog/317
[...]
Whatever is in your column will be shown in SharePoints Crawl Log ("Url View").
If your column ("Url") is nullable and does not contain any value BDC will use a default name for that specific item.
Of course after all the custom url is pretty damn useless. However it allows me to figure out whether one specific item has been crawled (successfully) or not because I can relate the shown Url to the ProductID - which I cannot with those bdc3:// urls.
How do you get a reference to the current ActivePivotManger? I've found code that uses it but no way to actually get ahold of it.
If you look at the class SandboxConfig in last v4.4.x you'll see that this class is annotated as following:
#PropertySource(value="classpath:sandbox.properties")
#Configuration
#Import(value={
ActivePivotConfig.class,
ActivePivotServicesConfig.class,
WebServicesConfig.class,
RemotingConfig.class,
SecurityConfig.class
})
public class SandboxConfig {
The ActivePivotConfig.class in the annotation is the one in which we define the activePivotManager which is defined as a member of the SandboxConfig class:
/** ActivePivot Manager, automatically wired */
#Autowired
protected IActivePivotManager activePivotManager;
The #Autowired here is important as it means that this is provided already.
in the previous versions of AP we were defining this as following in our project:
<!-- ActivePivot Manager -->
<bean id="ActivePivotManager" class="com.quartetfs.biz.pivot.impl.ActivePivotManagerFactory">
<property name="resourceName" value="DESC-INF/ActivePivotManager.xml" />
<property name="autoStart" value="false" />
<property name="healthCheckPeriod" value="120"/>
</bean>
If you want to use the ActivePivotManager instance stick then to what is in the SandboxConfig and add your logic there, use the ActivePivotManager instance defined there.
If you're not happy with that move to full XML wiring which is still supported as I can understand that some stuff is hidden and you expect to see the instance of ActivePivotManager instantiated clearly somewhere (which is done actually in ActivePivotConfig.class).
I am trying to use a Content Query Web Part to create a "What's New" page in Sharepoint 2010. The goal of this page is to display any documents that have been uploaded in the last 14 days. The trick is that these documents could belong to any number of lists that are defined in any number of list definitions. These are custom list definitions based on custom content types. We do have a base content type that each of our custom content types inherit from. They are also all part of the same content type group. I have determined that it is not possible to use the SP UI to set up the CQWP to return items from multiple list types, since one of the required query fields is list type. So - I'm attempting to use CAML to define this CQWP and this is where I'm having trouble. My end goal is for the CAML to be defined in a site definition (onet.xml file) but I've also not had any luck with uploading a .webpart file from the SP UI. I have found several articles that explain how this should be done but haven't been able to get the suggested solutions to work. This MSDN article tells me it should be possible using the ListsOverride element. This is how the article tells me to do it:
<![CDATA[
<Lists BaseType="0">
</Lists> ]]>
Since I'm looking for Document Libraries I would use a base type of 1 rather than 0.
I have been unable to determine the syntax for what that would actually look like from within the onet.xml file so I thought I'd start with trying to get it uploaded as a .webpart file.
This is what the ListsOverride element looks like:
<property name="ListsOverride" type="string">
<![CDATA[<Lists BaseType="1"></Lists>]]>
</property>
However - as soon as I upload a .webpart file with this in the CAML and add the webpart to a page I break that page in Sharepoint. This is what I get:
Server Error in '/' Application.
Attempted to use an object that has ceased to exist.
Research on that error points me to code that disposes of an object such as SPContext.Current.Web but I don't even have any code at all here. It almost looks like the CQWP has a bug in it. OR - I'm either not formatting that CAML properly or maybe I need to change something in a different element in the CAML?
I am running Sharepoint 2010 SP1 with all the latest patches. (I believe)
I've tried several other formats but without luck.
I tried getting rid of the embedded CDATA tags like this:
<property name="ListsOverride" type="string">
<Lists BaseType="1"></Lists>
</property>
But then Sharepoint won't let me upload the .webpart file. (Invalid .webpart file)
The format with the embedded CDATA tags seems to be the only way it lets me upload the file.
I've tried (just for the sake of narrowing down my issue) to specify specific lists like this:
<property name="ListsOverride" type="string">
<![CDATA[<Lists><List Id="{5a2f79bb-cc82-4171-88ac-65f20e7b5fa8}" /></Lists>]]>
That doesn't break the page but the webpart gives me less than useful error on the page (Unable to display this Web Part)
I'm not 100% sure that I used the appropriate GUID in that attempt. I got it from looking in the server explorer in Visual Studio (Under Lists and Libraries >> Document Libraries >> My List Type. (I got the GUID from the Id property)
I should mention that I am fairly new with Sharepoint development. I would have hoped that something seemingly so core to what Sharepoint does would be much easier than this.
Can someone please point out what I am doing wrong? Maybe I'm going about the whole thing in the wrong way? I appreciate any help that anyone can give me!
I found that the issue was all the "extra" fields that SharePoint had populated.
In my case, I started by configuring the content query web part on the page and then exporting it to get the xml. Then, I put the XML in my onet.xml file of my site definition. That worked fine initially, but as I tried to configure the base types, it did not behave as expected.
If I removed all the additional fields and just used the few fields that I actually needed to configure, then it started to work. In fact, I didn't even need to use the ListsOverride element, since there is a BaseType property that works just fine. It appears that one of the other properties that I was pulling in was really the cause of my issues.
Here's a webpart definition that I used in my onet.xml:
<AllUsersWebPart WebPartZoneID="WebPartZone" WebPartOrder="1">
<![CDATA[
<webParts>
<webPart xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WebPart/v3">
<metaData>
<type name="Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.WebControls.ContentByQueryWebPart, Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing, Version=14.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c" />
<importErrorMessage>Cannot import this Web Part.</importErrorMessage>
</metaData>
<data>
<properties>
<property name="Title" type="string">Recently Updated Documents</property>
<property name="ChromeType" type="chrometype">TitleOnly</property>
<property name="ChromeState" type="chromestate">Normal</property>
<property name="WebUrl" type="string">~site</property>
<property name="BaseType" type="string">1</property>
<property name="ContentTypeBeginsWithId" type="string">0x0101008B0856395DCD40F99C9B42B6BF92BDDB</property>
<property name="FilterField1" type="string">{28cf69c5-fa48-462a-b5cd-27b6f9d2bd5f}</property>
<property name="FilterType1" type="string">DateTime</property>
<property name="FilterOperator1" type="Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.WebControls.ContentByQueryWebPart+FilterFieldQueryOperator, Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing, Version=14.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c">Geq</property>
<property name="FilterDisplayValue1" type="string">-14</property>
<property name="FilterValue1" type="string">-14</property>
<property name="SortBy" type="string">{8c06beca-0777-48f7-91c7-6da68bc07b69}</property>
<property name="SortByFieldType" type="string">DateTime</property>
<property name="SortByDirection" type="Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.WebControls.ContentByQueryWebPart+SortDirection, Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing, Version=14.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c">Desc</property>
<property name="ItemXslLink" type="string">~sitecollection/Style Library/DealerPortal/ItemStyle.xsl</property>
<property name="CommonViewFields" type="string">Name,Text;Created,DateTime;Modified,DateTime;Body,Note;DocumentIconImageUrl;OnClickForWebRendering</property>
</properties>
</data>
</webPart>
</webParts>
]]>
</AllUsersWebPart>
I am trying to create a custom field type in SharePoint.
My custom field type has a custom property called CustomProperty.
<FieldTypes>
<FieldType>
<Field Name="TypeName">CustomField</Field>
<Field Name="InternalType">CustomField</Field>
..............................
..............................
<PropertySchema>
<Fields>
<Field Name="CustomProperty" DisplayName="CustomProperty" Type="Text" Hidden="TRUE" />
</Fields>
<RenderPattern Name="DisplayPattern">
<Property Select="CustomProperty" />
</RenderPattern>
</FieldType>
</FieldTypes>
I am trying to render the value of this custom property in the DisplayPattern.
But it looks like the CAML is not able to reference the custom properties.
I am not getting any value for the CustomValue property even though it is set correctly.
Any idea how to refer custom properties in CAML?
Unfortunately there is no straightforward way of achieving this, from what I've seen.
Your best option is to look at using this.GetCustomProperty("CustomProperty") within the overrided GetFieldValue function (or GetFieldValueAsHtml for a Note field).
The value string passed into the GetFieldValue function is the output from your CAML, so you can append to it and pass it on out.
Here is a sample:
http://blogs.msdn.com/toddca/archive/2009/01/23/customizing-the-rendering-of-a-custom-spfield.aspx
I haven’t tried it myself, and I have no idea if changing the SchemaXml could cause any unexpected problems.