You don't neeed to extend the VelocityPortlet, simply do the following:
- extend
org.apache.jetspeed.modules.actions.portlets.VelocityPortletAction to
write you own FooAction.
- define at least the buildNormalContext() of this FooAction to fill up
the Portlet context
with your own variables (if you have defined Turbine tools, they'll
automatically
available in your portlet).
- write your template(s) for this portlet, eg foo.vm
- in the registry, associate your Action and base template to the
VelocityPortlet:
<portlet-entry name="Foo" type="ref" parent="Velocity">
<meta-info>
<title>Foo</title>
<description>My Foo portlet</description>
</meta-info>
<parameter name="template" value="foo"/>
<parameter name="action" value="portlets.FooAction"/>
<media-type ref="html"/>
</portlet-entry>
And you're set !
> Is there a way to have a custom Velocity Portlet where
> we can put some objects into the Context and so can be
> accessed from the Velocity Template?
>
> Apparently, overriding the "getContent(RunData)" and
> pushing some objects into it by doing this - (see code
> below), does not work, as the populateContext id
> overwritten by the parent i.e VelocityPortlet. So, I
> ended up copying the entire code of
> VelocityPortlet.java and adding a few lines of my own
> code. Is there another way to do it?
>
> //-------- start ------------------
> public ConcreteElement getContent( RunData rundata )
> {
> Context context = TurbineVelocity.getContext();
> context.put( "myname", "Ashwin Jayaprakash" );
> context.put( "dob", "Aug 24, 1996" );
> context.put( "site", "www.javaforu.com" );
>
> TurbinePull.populateContext(context, rundata);
>
> return super.getContent( rundata );
> }
> //-------- end ------------------
>
>
> Thanks,
> Ashwin.
>
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