On 11/1/07, Christopher Schultz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> All,
>
> Any given tool gets an init(Object) call before it gets used. For "view"
> tools, that object is a ViewContext. How can I pass configuration
> parameters from the toolbox.xml file into the tools via the ViewContext
> object?
For Veltools 1.x, in the tool:
public void configure(Map params) {
//TODO: extract and use params here
}
and in the toolbox.xml:
<parameter name="name" value="value"/>
LinkTool already has a configure() method to set the self-absolute and
self-include-parameters properties.
In Veltools 2.x, you can still use configure(Map) or you can have
individual setters in the tool:
public void setMyProperty(Boolean property) {
//deal with the property
}
and in the tools.xml:
<tool class="org.foo.MyClass" myProperty="true"/>
or
<tool class="org.foo.MyClass">
<property name="myProperty" value="true"/>
<property name="otherProp">This is "crazy"!</property>
</tool>
lots of options. :)
> It looks like the only attribute really used is the XHTML one, but
> that's not tied to a tool -- it's tied to all tools, so it lives as an
> attribute of the ViewContext.
>
> I'd like to add a configuration parameter to the LinkTool, but I can't
> seem to figure out if there's an existing mechanism to get parameters
> from the toolbox.xml file into the actual tool during initialization.
>
> Any tips?
>
> Thanks,
> -chris
>
>
>
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