Project Structure:
rave-custom/
pom.xml
custom-container/ # this has our overlay code for basically everything
but shindig
custom-shindig/ # this has our overlay code for shindig only (like the
shindig.properties, etc)
custom-portal/ # only has a pom.xml to deploy our custom war files
via cargo
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root pom.xml:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0";
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";
xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0
http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd";>
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<groupId>org.custom.portal</groupId>
<artifactId>custom-master</artifactId>
<name>custom Master Project</name>
<description>custom Master Project</description>
<packaging>pom</packaging>
<version>1.0.0</version>
<parent>
<groupId>org.apache.rave</groupId>
<artifactId>rave-project</artifactId>
<version>0.9-incubating-SNAPSHOT</version>
</parent>
<repositories>
<repository>
<id>apache-snapshots</id>
<name>Apache Software Foundation Snapshots</name>
<url>https://repository.apache.org/content/groups/snapshots</url>
<snapshots>
<enabled>true</enabled>
</snapshots>
</repository>
</repositories>
<properties>
<rave.version>0.9-incubating-SNAPSHOT</rave.version>
<shindig.version>3.0.0-beta4</shindig.version>
<cargo.version>1.1.0</cargo.version>
<!-- if you want a remote debugging on a different a address override
on command line with -Dcargo.debug.address=xxxx -->
<cargo.debug.address>8000</cargo.debug.address>
<!-- if you want to start remote debugging session suspended override
on command line with -Dcargo.debug.suspend=y -->
<cargo.debug.suspend>n</cargo.debug.suspend>
<javaagent/>
</properties>
<dependencyManagement>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.rave</groupId>
<artifactId>rave-portal</artifactId>
<version>${rave.version}</version>
<type>war</type>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.rave</groupId>
<artifactId>rave-shindig</artifactId>
<version>${rave.version}</version>
<type>war</type>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
</dependencyManagement>
<modules>
<module>custom-container</module>
<module>custom-shindig</module>
<module>custom-portal</module>
</modules>
</project>
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custom-container/pom.xml:
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0";
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";
xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0
http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd";>
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<parent>
<groupId>org.custom.portal</groupId>
<artifactId>custom-master</artifactId>
<version>1.0.0</version>
</parent>
<groupId>org.custom.portal</groupId>
<artifactId>custom-container</artifactId>
<name>custom::Portal Container</name>
<description>custom Portal Container context</description>
<packaging>war</packaging>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.rave</groupId>
<artifactId>rave-portal</artifactId>
<type>war</type>
<exclusions>
<exclusion>
<groupId>org.apache.tomcat</groupId>
<artifactId>jasper-el</artifactId>
</exclusion>
<exclusion>
<groupId>org.apache.tomcat</groupId>
<artifactId>el-api</artifactId>
</exclusion>
<exclusion>
<groupId>org.glassfish.web</groupId>
<artifactId>jstl-impl</artifactId>
</exclusion>
</exclusions>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.rave</groupId>
<artifactId>rave-core</artifactId>
<version>${rave.version}</version>
<type>jar</type>
<scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.rave</groupId>
<artifactId>rave-commons</artifactId>
<version>${rave.version}</version>
<type>jar</type>
<scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.rave</groupId>
<artifactId>rave-web</artifactId>
<version>${rave.version}</version>
<type>jar</type>
<scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>
<!-- Default database -->
<dependency>
<groupId>com.h2database</groupId>
<artifactId>h2</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
<artifactId>slf4j-log4j12</artifactId>
<scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>
<!-- test dependencies -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.easymock</groupId>
<artifactId>easymock</artifactId>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-test</artifactId>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
</project>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Raminderjeet Singh [mailto:[email protected]]
>Sent: Friday, February 17, 2012 10:04 AM
>To: [email protected]
>Subject: Re: Extend Person model as Rave-Extension
>
>Thanks Tony,
>
>I tried the same and it works well for me if i am doing all this in rave-core
>itself
>but not as overlay. Can you share the overlay part of you project pom?
>
>Raminder
>
>On Feb 17, 2012, at 9:36 AM, Carlucci, Tony wrote:
>
>> Hi Raminder, we've been working on extending the User for our internal
>implementation. It's still in the early stages but here is what I've done so
>far
>(all code is done in our overlay):
>>
>> 1) Create a Custom user:
>>
>> package org.custom.portal.model;
>>
>> @Entity
>> public class CustomUser extends org.apache.rave.model.User {
>> @Transient
>> private String employeeNumber;
>> @Transient
>> private String jobTitle;
>> @Transient
>> private String building;
>> ...
>> // other custom user attributes
>> }
>>
>> Our custom fields are marked Transient as they are populated from a read-
>only data source (LDAP) and we don't plan on allowing updates to them via
>Rave.
>>
>>
>> 2) Create a new CustomUserRepository interface:
>>
>> public interface CustomUserRepository {
>> CustomUser getByEmployeeNumber(String employeeNumber);
>> // ... other custom function signatures
>> }
>>
>> 3) Create a new DefaultCustomUserRepository class with "userRepository"
>as the bean name that is marked as @Primary to override the default Rave
>userRepository implemenation (DefaultUserRepository). This custom class
>will get injected into any Spring Bean that needs a "userRepository" like
>UserService.
>>
>> @Repository(value="userRepository")
>> @Primary
>> @Transactional
>> public class DefaultCustomUserRepository extends JpaUserRepository
>implements CustomUserRepository {
>>
>> @Override
>> public CustomUser getByEmployeeNumber(String employeeNumber) {
>> ...
>> }
>>
>> // custom code that fetches the new user data fields from our LDAP
>server
>> private CustomUser getCustomUserFromLDAP(String employeeNumber)
>{
>> ...
>> }
>> }
>>
>> 4) Overlay core-applicationContext.xml with our version that includes
>component scans of our custom packages:
>> ...
>> <!-- component scan custom code -->
>> <context:component-scan base-
>package="org.custom.portal.repository"/>
>> ...
>>
>> 5) Overlay applicationContext.xml to reference our core-
>applicationContext.xml file:
>> ...
>> <import resource="classpath*:org/custom/portal/core-
>applicationContext.xml"/>
>> <import resource="classpath*:org/apache/rave/web-
>applicationContext.xml"/>
>> <import resource="classpath*:org/apache/rave/opensocial-provider-
>applicationContext.xml"/>
>> <import resource="classpath*:org/apache/rave/w3c-provider-
>applicationContext.xml"/>
>> ...
>>
>> Again we are still in the early stages of this work so things may change over
>time but this should give you enough of a starting point.
>>
>> Tony
>>
>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Raminderjeet Singh [mailto:[email protected]]
>>> Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2012 3:30 PM
>>> To: [email protected]
>>> Subject: Extend Person model as Rave-Extension
>>>
>>> Hi Devs,
>>>
>>> I am trying to extend the person object to add new data fields using rave-
>>> vanilla-extension. War overlay works fine for new services like
>>> (CustomUserService) and web components but it does not overlay
>>> dependency artifact jars. I tried to overlay rave-core jar only in a
>>> separate
>>> project but was not successful to extend user model. I can add my code to
>>> rave-core itself and it works well. Any ideas how can i make this work from
>>> rave-extensions? I think this use case will be true for any custom portals
>>> based on Rave. I added my sample code in rave-vanilla-extension sandbox.
>I
>>> created RAVE-447 for this also.
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> Raminder
